Los Angeles:
A recently released superhero movie Deadpool & Wolverine continue to set the box office on fire. Variety reports that the film has collected $1.086 billion at the worldwide box office after 23 days of release. In India, the film’s total collection stood at $10.5 million after 19 days of its release, according to industry tracker Sacnilk. Marvel’s save-the-universe adventure hit theaters on July 26th and grossed a whopping $211 million in its domestic debut for the sixth-biggest opening weekend of all time. Since Deadpool & Wolverine has remained a massive draw with $516 million in North America and $568 million internationally.
According to Variety, it surpassed all the theatrical runs of its predecessor – 2016 Deadpool with $783 million and in 2018 Deadpool 2 With $786 million in just two weeks in theaters. It’s now the second blockbuster of 2024 (behind Disney Pixar’s $1.558 billion Inside Out 2 ) and the second R-rated film ever to join the coveted billion-dollar club.
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said in a statement: “It’s wonderful to see audiences love this movie as much as we all loved making it. All those conversations were worth it.”
A studio executive cheekily refers to a line in a movie where Deadpool jokes that Feige said cocaine was the only thing not to eat. In real life, Feige claims he didn’t give that order.
Deadpool & Wolverine starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman as anti-hero alter egos and Marvel badasses, is notable for bringing comic book characters previously licensed to 20th Century Fox into Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe. It is the first R-rated film in the MCU.
Box office sales have been stratospheric since Reynolds and director Shawn Levy brought Jackman’s brash mutant Logan out of retirement and assembled a who’s who of Fox-era heroes, including Jennifer Garner as Elektra, Chris Evans as the Human Torch, Wesley Snipes as Blade to accompany Deadpool. and Wolverine on a mission to save the timeline.
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