Box Office - 'Deadpool & Wolverine' Joins The $100 Million Losers Club As It Becomes The Biggest X-Men Movie Ever

Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman's MCU threequel has earned $396 million domestically and $824 million worldwide, shattering records for R-ratings and X-Men.

Deadpool & Wolverine earned a spectacular $97 million on weekend two, dropping just 54% to bring its ten-day domestic cume to $395.6 million. That’s just past the $390 million total of Spider-Man: Far from Home in 2019. Yes, it’ll pass the over/under $410 million likes of Iron Man 3, Spider-Man (in 2002), Captain America: Civil War and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as early as Monday. Next up among Marvel or DC flicks will be the $425-$450 million lifetime totals (sans inflation) of Captain Marvel, The Dark Knight Rises, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Avengers: Age of Ultron. However, it did earn $114 million less in its second weekend than it did on its $211 million debut Fri-Sun frame. So, uh, congratulations Mr. Wilson and Mr. Howlett, you’re the 17th-and-counting member of the $100 million losers club.

The $100 Million What?!

For those who came in late, the $100 million losers club is when a movie opens *huge* and drops hard enough that it ends up grossing over $100 million less on its second weekend compared to its first. Sometimes, as with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice earning $166 million in weekend one and $51 million in weekend two, it was audiences soundly rejecting the tentpole in question. Sometimes, a film opens so high that even a moderately healthy decline still meant a second-weekend decline above $100 million. Nobody mourned when Jurassic World only earned $107 million in weekend two after a record $209 million debut in June of 2015. The benchmark doesn’t always imply doom-n-gloom, but any $165 million-plus opener avoiding it (as did Black Panther, The Force Awakens and Barbie) usually signals a healthy run.

Avengers: Endgame dropped $210 million between weekends ($147 million/$357 million) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi dropped $149 million to $71 million after a $220 million debut. Between 2009 and 2019, the likes of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II ($42 million/$169 million, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ($51 million/$166 million), The Lion King ($76 million/$191 million), and Avengers: Age of Ultron ($77 million/$191 million) dropped between $114 million and $121 million in their second frames. It is the 17th member of this club and the fourth this decade. All four of the “new” entries (Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and now Deadpool & Wolverine) were MCU movies. That makes sense as they are *still* the only brand semi-regularly pumping out $180-$260 million opening weekends.

Spider-Man: No Way Home (coming off a $260 million debut frame) became the first COVID-era entry, earning $175 million less in weekend two in late 2021. Friday fell on Christmas Eve that season, partially explaining why it earned $102 million less on its second Friday alone compared to its $122 million opening day. It recovered, partially because there was stupidly little offered in the early months of 2022. It legged out to $805 million, earning 1.71x its $470 million ten-day total. That remains the second-leggiest “member.” So, does this mean Deadpool & Wolverine is on its way to $675 million domestically? Probably not. Conversely, the film still managed an Avengers 1-worthy 55% second-weekend drop, so I don’t think we’re looking at the second coming of (in terms of legs) Twilight: New Moon or Harry Potter 7.2.