Blake Lively starrer It Ends With Us knocked out Deadpool & Wolverine with with a record breaking box office opening.
The report by Deadline revealed that Lively’s film scored a strong $24 million on the day of its release, including $7 million from Thursday previews, beating Deadpool 3 which topped $15.6 million.
Directed by Justin Baldoni, the film opened with mixed reactions, as critics have rated it 59 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, while the Audience Score is a solid 94 percent.
The female-centric film based on a $25 million-budget romance drama has become an event movie in the markets where it has opened this weekend, notably seeing launch days that were 73% above The Fault in Our Stars, more than double A Star is Born and Little Women, over triple Anyone But You and more than four-times Sony’s 2022 film Where the Crawdads Sing.
The top markets of the film are the UK ($2.4M), Australia ($2.4M), Brazil ($1.5M) and Mexico ($1M) and Sweden ($725K).
It Ends With Us is based on Colleen Hoover’s 2016 novel of the same name and features Blake, Justin, Brandon Skelnar, Jenny Slate, and Hasan Minhaj.