While her husbandRyan Reynoldscontinues to enjoy the record-breaking success ofDeadpool & Wolverine,Blake Livelyis experiencing a career-high of her own. Her romantic drama filmIt Ends with Uspassed a huge global box office milestone this weekend, as Sony continues to hold off on releasing it on digital streaming platforms.It Ends with Usopened a month ago in the wake ofDeadpool & Wolverine’s blockbuster box office performance, and provided textbook counter-programming for its female-skewing target audience.
With $141 million domestically and another $168 million worldwide, the film’scumulative global gross now stands at a phenomenal $309 million. This weekend,It Ends with Usovertook the $307 million lifetime global haul of another female-skewing literary adaptation,The Fault in Our Stars. The film had previously out-grossed the similarly targeted titlesThe Girl on the Train($173 million),Where the Crawdads Sing($145 million), andCrazy Rich Asians($237 million). Movies of this kind have a high benchmark, with the firstTwilightgrossing over $400 million worldwide, andFifty Shades of Greyhitting around $570 million globally.
It Ends with Usis thebiggest film of Lively’s career, and is currently the 11th-biggest Hollywood hit of the year globally, and the10th-biggest domestic box office hit of the year. The movie exceeded expectations in its debut, grossing $50 million domestically on the back of positive audience response and a controversy surrounding Lively. She was said to befeuding with the film’s director, and her co-star,Justin Baldoni, and wasalso criticizedfor not giving due respect to the film’s central theme of domestic abuse in pre-release interviews, which she subsequently addressed in a social media post.
‘It Ends with Us’ and ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Have Grossed Over $1.5 Billion Combined
It Ends with Usopened to mixedreviews, and is currently sitting at a 57% “rotten” score on the aggregator websiteRotten Tomatoes. But it’s the audience response that has taken it this far; the film was deemed worthy of RT’s newly announced “verified hot” honor, on the strength of its excellent 91% user rating.Produced on a reported budget of $25 million, the movie has already earned 12 times its production cost and is projected to conclude its global box office run with around $340 million.
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It Ends With Us
A woman’s life takes a challenging turn when her first love reappears, complicating her relationship with a charismatic but abusive neurosurgeon. Confronted with difficult decisions, she must summon her inner strength to navigate the complexities of love and self-empowerment, ultimately shaping her path forward.
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