'Deadpool & Wolverine' Smashes Box Office, Swift Reacts to UK Tragedy

Marvel's 'Deadpool & Wolverine' sets a record with $205 million in domestic sales. Video game publishers remain resilient during actor strike. Taylor Swift reacts to a tragic stabbing in the UK. Josh Hartnett takes on a new role in M. Night Shyamalan's thriller 'Trap'.

Marvel's raunchy and violent 'Deadpool & Wolverine' lit up box offices over the weekend with $205 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales, the biggest domestic opening of the year, distributor Walt Disney said on Sunday. The returns set a record for an R-rated film and topped the $154.2 million collected by another Disney film, the animated Pixar movie 'Inside Out 2,' when it debuted in June.

Major video game publishers including Electronic Arts and Take-Two will likely stave off a big hit from the strike by voice actors and motion-capture artists due to their in-house studios and the lengthy development cycles for games, analysts said. The strike, which began last week, marked the latest in Hollywood after unions representing writers and actors took to the picket lines last year seeking protections against the use of artificial intelligence.

U.S. singer Taylor Swift spoke of her horror on Tuesday at the news three girls had been stabbed to death and five other children were critically wounded after a ferocious attack at a dance event in northern England for young fans of her music. A 17-year-old male is in police custody on suspicion of murder and attempted murder after the incident at the 'Taylor Swift yoga and dance workshop' in Southport, north of Liverpool, a summer vacation event for children aged from six to 11 on Monday morning.

Josh Hartnett says his role as a shrewd serial killer in filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan's new movie 'Trap' marks a departure for him as an actor. 'It's unlike anything else I've played,' Hartnett, who has starred in films such as 'Black Hawk Down', 'Lucky Number Slevin', 'Pearl Harbor' and 'The Virgin Suicides', said at the London premiere of 'Trap' on Monday.