Life is a mystery, but the box office numbers aren’t. Deadpool & Wolverine won the box office for the second weekend in a row. Its domestic two week total is a whopping $395.6 million. This officially makes it the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time, surpassing Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. That bit of trivia is pretty funny, actually, given the movie’s running joke that Deadpool keeps trying to be known as “Marvel Jesus.” (The best one-liner I read on Twitter quipped, “America wants graphically violent movies about men who cannot die”.)
After 10 days in theaters, “Deadpool & Wolverine” is already the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever, not accounting for inflation.
In its second weekend, the Marvel Studios blockbuster starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman continued to steamroll through movie theaters, collecting $97 million according to studio estimates Sunday. That raised its two-week total to $395.6 million, pushing it past the long-reigning top R-rated feature, “The Passion of the Christ,” which held that mark for 20 years with $370 million domestic.
Worldwide, the Shawn Levy-directed “Deadpool & Wolverine” has quickly amassed $824.1 million in ticket sales, a total that already surpasses the global hauls of the first two “Deadpool” films. The 2016 original grossed $782.6 million worldwide; the 2018 sequel collected $734.5 million.
The weekend’s primary challengers both struggled. M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller, “Trap,” managed a modest opening of $15.6 million at 3,181 theaters for Warner Bros.
Deadpool & Wolverine really is a very fun, albeit graphically violent, movie. Mr. Rosie and I want to see it again because I’m sure we missed some references and jokes the first time around. We loved all of the cameos/characters that popped up, inside jokes (both visual and character-based), and the way they wrapped up the 20th Century Fox superhero era, particularly with that credits scene set to music. Speaking of, the music choices throughout the entire movie were also perfect, no notes. I’m pretty sure I put every song on that soundtrack on a mixed CD at some point in high school. Anyway, I loved the movie and think it’s quite excellent that it’s now holding this honor, which is peak Deadpool energy. Now, the only thing left for Marvel Jesus to do is see if he can resurrect interest in the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise.
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I managed to go in mostly spoiler-free and was delighted by every surprise cameo. It’s a very fun summer movie, and also extraordinarily stabby. 🔪🔪🔪🔪
I truly enjoyed the Loki series and TVA immensely though so YMMV.
We are seeing it tomorrow night as a family (it’s a big birthday week in my house and that’s what the celebrator wanted to do). I’m sure most of the references will go over my head, as I don’t watch superhero movies, but I legitimately like Ryan Reynolds, so I’m sure it will be fun.
Loved it. So funny, and with a surprising amount of heart. What an amazing success!
(And judging from their non-answers about it, I expect to see both gentleman…avenging…very soon 😏)
Saw it this weekend and loved it! The jokes came fast and furious and but did manage to keep up.
This film deserves every single cent it makes! 🙂
Saw it on sunday and it was a blast! Those cameos, people! I was so spoiler free I was gasping every five minutes 😂
Is this what the general audience wants? Self-referencial nostalgia bait barely held together by a rubber band plot? I’m not even a cinephile, but I can’t help feeling disappointed by the current state of the film industry.
Have you seen it or is this just an “I’m so cool, I’ll crap on something popular”, shtick?