“Deadpool & Wolverine,” the highly anticipated superhero team-up film, has been just what Marvel needed after a bit of a slump the studio had been on as of late. The film turbocharged the box office with a colossal $205 million opening weekend.
“Deadpool & Wolverine” scored the eighth-best figures for a film’s opening weekend ever, outpacing 2018’s “Black Panther” ($202 million) and falling just behind 2015’s “Jurassic World” ($208 million) and 2012’s “The Avengers” ($207 million).
The film also becomes only the ninth film in Hollywood history to surpass the $200 million milestone in its opening weekend, and the first R-rated film to do so, shattering the record for the biggest R-rated opening weekend ever, previously held by the franchise’s first film, 2016’s “Deadpool” ($132 million).
Record-Breaking Success
“Deadpool & Wolverine” not only achieved the biggest start of the year, overtaking Disney’s Pixar sequel “Inside Out 2” ($155 million debut), which is now also the highest-grossing animated film of all time, but it has also been a heavy favorite among international audiences, earning $233.3 million globally.
This brings the film’s worldwide total to an astonishing $438 million, making it the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2024 after just three days of release.
Unexpected Box Office Heights
Initially projected to gross between $160 million and $170 million, the film quickly surpassed these expectations as fans turned up in numbers to theaters to witness this epic team-up between Jackman’s Wolverine and Reynolds’ Deadpool and to avoid the many wonderful surprises the film boasts. On Friday alone, “Deadpool & Wolverine” garnered an impressive $96 million, surpassing the opening weekend earnings of most films released this year so far.