{"id":112698,"date":"2018-05-20T12:12:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T16:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=112698"},"modified":"2018-05-20T12:12:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T16:12:52","slug":"deadpool-2-conquers-us-weekend-box-office-misses-r-rated-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2018\/05\/20\/deadpool-2-conquers-us-weekend-box-office-misses-r-rated-record\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Deadpool 2&#8221; Conquers US Weekend Box Office But Misses R-Rated Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on its impressive first-day total, &#8220;Deadpool 2&#8221; appeared to have a shot at breaking the opening weekend record for an R-rated film.<\/p>\n<p>Based on full weekend estimates, it just missed that mark.<\/p>\n<p>Studio estimates have &#8220;Deadpool 2&#8221; earning $125.0 million at the US box office this weekend.  Enough for a dominant weekend victory, the tally nonetheless trails the $132.4 million record held by the original &#8220;Deadpool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It does, however, top the $123.4 million earned by &#8220;It&#8221; to rank as the second-biggest R-rated opening of all-time.<\/p>\n<p>As for this weekend&#8217;s box office, &#8220;Avengers: Infinity War&#8221; takes #2 with $28.7 million.  The former #1 film now boasts a cumulative gross of $595.0 million.<\/p>\n<p>New release &#8220;Book Club&#8221; starts at #3 with $12.5 million, while &#8220;Life Of The Party&#8221; dips two places to #4. with $7.7 million (cume now $31.0 million).<\/p>\n<p>Down two places, &#8220;Breaking In&#8221; takes #5 with $6.5 million (cume now $28.8 million).<\/p>\n<p>New release &#8220;Show Dogs,&#8221; which earned $6.0 million in its inaugural weekend, debuts at #6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Deadpool 2&#8221; did not perform quite as well as its predecessor.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[36,1050],"tags":[10857,11058,11057,5798,10998,2512,11056],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Deadpool 2&quot; Conquers US Weekend Box Office But Misses R-Rated Record<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Based on its impressive first-day total, &quot;Deadpool 2&quot; appeared to have a shot at breaking the opening weekend record for an R-rated film. 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