For the second straight week, Marvel’s profanest protagonist stuffed its competition into the back of a taxi cab—then drove straight to the top of the box office.
It wasn’t even much of a contest, really. Deadpool collected an estimated $55 million en route to its second weekend title, bringing its total North American gross to $235.4 million. No movie released in 2016 has made more. Granted, the red-clad antihero still has a ways to go before it hits Avengers-like money, but it’s already made more than any of the X-Men movies. Too bad, really. I hate to think of Charles Xavier asking Deadpool for a loan to help finance a new wing for his School for Gifted Youngsters.
Kung Fu Panda 3, the year’s second-highest-grossing movie, is also second in this weekend’s box office standings. The surprisingly agile ursine gobbled up $12.5 million, bringing its yearly earnings to $117.1 million and change. Maybe the titular panda should change its name from Po to Rich.
The Christian whodunit Risen was the weekend’s highest-grossing new release, clocking in at third with $11.8 million. That’s a pretty good debut, according to Box Office Mojo: It was the seventh-highest opening in history for a Christian movie, and audiences apparently loved it. It could still be sharing cinematic space with a couple of other Christian movies when Easter rolls around.
I suppose it’s fitting, theologically speaking, that Risen should triumph over The Witch. The creepy R-rated fright-flick brewed up an $8.7 million weekend—barely besting holdover How to Be Single ($8.2 million) for fourth place. Meanwhile, the inspirational Jesse Owens biopic Race stumbled out of the blocks, staggering to a sixth-place, $7.3-million finish.
Final figures update: 1. Deadpool, $56.5 million; 2. Kung Fu Panda 3, $12.5 million; 3. Risen, $11.8 million; 4. The Witch, $8.8 million; 5. How to be Single, $8.2 million; 6. Race, $7.4 million.
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