Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Deadpool and Wolverine are sashaying past Barbie on domestic box office charts.
Marvel’s “Deadpool & Wolverine” added $679,000 as Disney brought the film back to 1,500 theaters over the weekend, boosting its North American total to $636.3 million.
Those ticket sales were enough to ever-so-slightly surpass “Barbie” ($636.238 million) as the 12th highest-grossing release ever at the domestic box office.
Greta Gerwig’s plastic, fantastic fantasy-comedy “Barbie” remains significantly bigger at the global box office with $1.445 billion. “Deadpool & Wolverine,” starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman as their comic book alter egos, premiered in July and notched several box office milestones in the following days, weeks and months.
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