Summer Movie Season Ends with $3.6B in Earnings

  • Deadpool & Wolverine tops box office for second consecutive weekend
  • Reagan beats expectations on sluggish Labor Day weekend
  • Alien: Romulus and It Ends With Us round out top three
  • Summer movie season ends with $3.6 billion in domestic earnings
  • Unpredictable summer full of surprises and flops

Deadpool & Wolverine continued its box office reign for the second weekend in a row, while Reagan exceeded expectations during a slow Labor Day period. Alien: Romulus and It Ends With Us followed closely behind. The summer season, marked by surprises and flops, concluded with a total of $3.6 billion in domestic earnings, down 10% from the previous year.

Factuality Level: 5
Factuality Justification: The article provides accurate and objective information about the box office performance of various movies during the summer season, including their earnings and rankings. It also includes audience and critic ratings for some of the films. However, it contains a few inaccuracies such as referring to ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ as a Disney movie when it is actually a 20th Century Fox production, and mixing up the titles ‘Inside Out 2’ with ‘Despicable Me 4’. Additionally, there are some minor grammatical errors.
Noise Level: 5
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Public Companies: Disney (DIS), Sony (SONY), Lionsgate (LGF.B)
Private Companies: Blumhouse Productions,Bleecker Street
Key People: Paul Dergarabedian (senior media analyst at Comscore), Dennis Quaid (actor), Blake Lively (actor), Justin Baldoni (actor and director), Fede Álvarez (director), Zoë Kravitz (director), Laurence Fishburne (actor), Casey Affleck (actor), Tyrese Gibson (actor), Scott Eastwood (actor), Ray Liotta (actor), Glen Powell (actor), Daisy Edgar-Jones (actor), John Cho (actor), Katherine Waterston (actor)

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Financial Markets Impacted: The box office earnings and performance of movies like Deadpool & Wolverine, Reagan, Alien: Romulus, It Ends With Us, Twisters, Afraid, Blink Twice, Inside Out 2, The Forge, and other films mentioned in the article have an impact on the entertainment industry and related stocks.
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Sector: Entertainment
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