EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios/Disney‘s Deadpool & Wolverine finally opens this weekend, not only further rebounding the post-strike box office to a healthy place, but also revitalizing the MCU’s brilliance.
It was only last November that the studio fell on hard times with its lowest opening ever in The Marvels at $46.1 million U.S./$110 million worldwide.
The current range for domestic on the new Deadpool movie directed by Shawn Levy and starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman is $160M-$170M, destined to be the biggest R-rated opening of all time, unseating the original Deadpool‘s $132.4M.
Worldwide stands at $340M-$360M off an offshore start of $180M-$190M. Looking at international comps (and excluding China), Joker opened in 2019 o $147M in like-for-like markets at today’s rates.
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