Box Office: DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE Say No To Superhero Fatigue
We’ve been hearing about the death of the theatrical experience and superhero fatigue for so long now that we’ve all begun to believe it. Superhero flops like The Marvels, The Flash, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Madame Web made it look like the writing was on the wall for comic book movies. Throw in some big budget box office failures like Furioisa: A Mad Max Saga and The Fall Guy and it looked like doom prognosticators were correct.
However, that all changed this weekend.
Marvel Studios’ $200 million Deadpool & Wolverine has just banked $205 $211 million at the U.S. box office and an additional $233 million in other territories. That gives the Ryan Reynolds/Hugh Jackman headed pic a total worldwide weekend debut of $438.3 $444 million.
Not only did Deadpool & Wolverine reverse any fear of superhero fatigue, but it was also the biggest opening weekend for stars Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman and director Shawn Levy.
Deadpool & Wolverine also broke a slew of other box office records:
- Biggest domestic and worldwide R-rated opening of all time
- Biggest worldwide and international opening of the year
- Biggest July opening weekend of all-time domestically
- Biggest worldwide opening since Avatar: The Way of Water
- Biggest opening weekend domestically of 2024
- Biggest opening weekend domestically since 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home
EighthSixth biggest opening weekend domestically of all time- Fifth biggest domestic superhero film opening weekend of all time
Throw-in the San Diego Comic Con news that Iron Man himself – Robert Downey Jr is returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe to play Dr. Doom in a pair of new movies (Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars) – which are set to be directed by Joe and Anthony Russo.
If the box office reception to Deadpool & Wolverine – along with rapturous Comic Con response to Downey and the Russo Brothers is to be believed – then it looks like Marvel will be able to squeeze a few more years and several more billion dollars out of the comic book genre.
