Box Office: Disney Has Its Cake, Eats It Too As Marvel's 'Deadpool & Wolverine' Superhero Fatigues To $96 Million Friday
The Fox properties were supposed to be the inferior superhero movies, and yet Disney is relying on nostalgia for the very franchises they killed via corporate megerer.
As expected, Deadpool & Wolverine shattered R-rated records at the domestic box office, earning a $96 million Friday gross. That is A) a hell of a lot higher than the $53 million opening day for Deadpool 2 and B) the biggest single-day gross for any movie since Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home ($121 million) in late 2021. For comparison, it’s tied with the $96 million Fri-Sun opening weekend of the R-rated Joker in late 2019. It would by itself be the second-biggest Fri-Sun weekend of the year behind Inside Out 2 ($155 million last month). Presuming a $60 million Saturday (-38% from Friday or more-or-less tied with its $58 million “pure Friday sans preview showings” gross), the MCU threequel, teaming Ryan Reynolds’ Wade Wilson with Hugh Jackman’s Logan, will have passed $155 million, displacing both Deadpool films ($132 million Fri-Sun/$152 million Fri-Mon in 2016 and $128 million in 2018) at the top of the R-rated opener’s chart.