Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively Go Head-to-Head at the Box Office — Here's Who Won!

Mar. 15, 2025

Ryan Reynolds inDeadpool & Wolverine(2024); Blake Lively inIt Ends with Us(2024).Photo:Jay Maidment/20th Century Studios/MARVEL; Nicole Rivelli

Jay Maidment/20th Century Studios/MARVEL; Nicole Rivelli

It was the battle of the box office forRyan ReynoldsandBlake Lively!

The spouses' newest movies —Deadpool & Wolverinefor Reynolds, 47, andIt Ends with Usfor Lively, 36 — faced off in theaters this weekend, as the latter film made its premiere and Reynolds' Marvel flick enjoyed continued success since its July 26 opening.

The winner?Deadpool & Wolverine, which raked in $54.2 million in domestic ticket sales, whileIt Ends with Usmade $50million,Varietyreported.

The outlet added that the occasion marks the first time in over three decades that a married couple had their films top the box office. The last to do it wasBruce WillisinDie Hard 2andDemi MooreinGhost, which earned the No. 1 and No. 2 spots, respectively, in 1990.

So far,Deadpool & Wolverinehas topped the box office for three weekends in a row, garnering $494.3 million domestically and over $1 billion globally to date, perVariety.

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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds at the premiere ofDeadpool & Wolverinein New York City on July 22, 2024.Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

Despite their playful competitiveness surrounding their films, Reynolds and Lively, whotied the knot in 2012and sharefour children, have supported one another wholeheartedly as they have celebrated bothDeadpool & WolverineandIt Ends with Us.

After his wife rocked Deadpool red at the latter event, Reynoldsstepped out with Livelyin support ofIt Ends with Usin the Big Apple on Tuesday, Aug. 6, wearing an olive-green suit with a white floral boutonniere — a nod to his wife’s protagonist Lily Bloom, who works as a florist.

Lively told PEOPLE at the premiere that “it’s the best” tohave the support of Reynolds, and previously joked the PEOPLE at theDeadpool & Wolverinepremierethat he was supporting here thereas well, as opposed to the other way around.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds at the premiere ofIt Ends with Usin New York City on Aug. 6, 2024.John Nacion/Variety via Getty

John Nacion/Variety via Getty

In an interview for a recent issue of PEOPLE, Lively described the best bouquet of flowers she ever received — and of course, they were from Reynolds.

“When my husband and I first got together, he would send me abouquet of flowers every week,” she said, “but he would always send a card and it would just be a sentence of something that had happened that week. Something funny or emotional that one of us said.”

“It was just a little quote of the week,” added theGossip Girlalum. “It was such a beautiful, romantic thing. Now we have 4,000 children!”

Deadpool & WolverineandIt Ends with Usare both in theaters now.

source: people.com