Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter “Deadpool & Wolverine” is the newest member of the billion-dollar club. Disney’s Marvel sequel, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman as their comic book alter egos, has grossed $494.3 million in North America and $535.1 million internationally for a grand total of $1.029 billion at the global box office.
It’s the second release of 2024, following Disney’s Pixar smash “Inside Out 2” with $1.558 billion, to surpass the billion-dollar mark.
Notably, it’ll soon overtake 2019’s “Joker” ($1.07 billion, the only other R-rated film to cross the coveted milestone) as the highest-grossing R-rated film in history. “Deadpool & Wolverine” is the 31st Disney film and 11th in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to reach the $1 billion mark.
The raunchy save-the-world adventure has been a needed win for the MCU. The once-untouchable comic book behemoth has shown signs of wear and tear with recent misfires like “Eternals,” “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and “The Marvels.” Though post-pandemic installments such as “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness” ($956 million), 2022’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” ($859 million) and 2023’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
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