‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ Set to Shatter Records & Have the Highest Grossing R-Rated Opening of All Time
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‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ is one of the, if not the most important movie releasing this summer. The movie is Deadpool’s first foray into the MCU and the studio’s attempt to “right some wrongs” that were plaguing their production over the last several years.
A recently released list of 2023 box office losers, put Disney at the top of the list, as it was the first year in a long time that the major media company did not have a billion-dollar movie. ‘The Marvels’ was a catastrophic release for the company, resulting in eye-watering losses.
All eyes are now on ‘Deadpool & Wolverine,’ and the most recent projection made by BoxOffice Pro is confident that the movie will be the highest-grossing movie of 2024 putting the domestic opening weekend range at $250M — $300M.
The first indication that ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ is expecting a positive box office was the presale of tickets which broke several records and now early box-office projections made confident claims that ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ will break records for the biggest R-rated opening, the title previously held by the first ‘Deadpool’ installment. Previous projections from several months ago according to ‘Deadline’ put the movie at $200M-$239M.
Experts expect this to be the biggest R-rated opener ever, surpassing the $132.4M of 2016’s ‘Deadpool’ and the $125.5M of ‘Deadpool 2.’ With ‘Deadpool’ and ‘Deadpool 2’ both earning over $780M worldwide, this new installment is likely to perform strongly through the summer.
The movie has already opened internationally and all reactions have been insanely good, however, the critics’ score surprised us since it definitely did not praise the movie in the same amount as the audience score did.
What do you think? Will ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ beat the box-office record? Let us know in the comments below!
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