A war between the famous spouses played out in the movies this weekend when Sony Pictures’ “It Ends With Us,” starring Blake Lively, proved to be a formidable opponent for “Deadpool. “
“It Ends With Us” far exceeded initial expectations, debuting with $50 million in ticket sales in the United States and Canada after an impressive presale, Sony estimates on Sunday. The film was expected to open between $25 million and $35 million.
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Lively and Reynolds, who married in 2012, are also identified as producers of their respective films. (As if their deployments weren’t already related enough, Lively makes an appearance in “Deadpool”)
Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Colleen Hoover, “It Ends with Us” stars Lively as a flower shop owner who falls in love with an abusive neurosurgeon. The cast includes Brandon Sklenar, Jenny Slate, and Justin Baldoni, who also directed the film.
The romantic drama earned an average positive score of 59% on review site Rotten Tomatoes, and an A-less from the audience surveyed through CinemaScore.
“‘It Ends With Us’ continues the culture of ‘women’s images’ that were a component of Hollywood film production in the 1940s; Bette Davis may have starred in an edition of this film about 80 years ago,” said film critic Katie Walsh. wrote for the Tribune News Service.
“But photographs of women will also have to make explicit a hard truth that unfortunately merges here, in a failed adaptation, too close or too far from its source. “
In third place at the box office, director Lee Isaac Chung’s “Twisters” closed its fourth weekend with $15 million, according to the measurement company Comscore. Fueled by its epic action sequence, the Universal film brought its domestic gross to $222. 3 million.
Eli Roth’s “Borderlands,” which has been the subject of some criticism, debuted to a disappointing $8. 8 million for Lionsgate. It slightly edged out “Despicable Me 4,” which finished fifth with $8 million in its sixth weekend. Universal’s spirited good fortune reached $330. 1 million in full-price ticket sales domestically.
The only other top 10 debuts with Neon’s “Cuckoo,” which finished the weekend in ninth place with $3 million.
Next weekend, Disney’s “Alien: Romulus,” Falling Forward Films’ “Ryan’s World the Movie: Titan Universe Adventure,” Roadside Attractions’ “My Penguin Friend” and IFC Films’ “Skincare. “