‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ To Best ‘Passion Of The Christ’ As Highest Grossing U.S. R-Rated Movie Ever; ‘Trap’ To Lock $15M-$20M; ‘Harold And The Purple Crayon’ Light – Box Office Preview
deadline.comThere’s a lot of summer left for Marvel Studios/Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine and this weekend the third installment will becoming the highest grossing chapter stateside in the Deadpool franchise, in addition to becoming the highest R-rated pic at the domestic B.O., with around $380M by Sunday.
Deadpool finaled its domestic B.O. at $363M, while Deadpool 2 ended its run at $325.M. The highest grossing R-rated movie at the domestic box office is currently Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ at $370.7M.
Already with Monday’s gross, Deadpool & Wolverine has surpassed the domestic cumes of all previous X-Men movies, slotting ahead of 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand‘s U.S./Canada B.O.
of $234.3M. In sum, weekend 2 of D&W at $84.5M will be part of what’s expected to be a No. 1 three-frame winning streak.
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