How to Be Single, an R-rated romantic comedy, stars Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Alison Brie and Leslie Mann. Miller and Gina Carano.Īt these numbers, Deadpool is no doubt making life tough for the other two holiday offerings, Zoolander 2 and How to Be Single. Directed by Tim Miller, the movie also stars Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T.J. In Deadpool - which is outpacing the openings of all previous X-Men films - the superhero seeks revenge against those who subjected him to the treatment.ĭeadpool is also off to an impressive start overseas, where it could earn north of $80 million for the weekend. The actor first appeared as the character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Friday’s tally - the biggest ever for February - included $12.7 million in Thursday night previews, a record for an R-rated film, as well as for the month.Ī passion project for Reynolds, the irreverent, tongue-in-cheek movie follows Wade Wilson (aka Deadpool), a foul-mouthed, witty mercenary who was bestowed with special powers after undergoing an experimental treatment for cancer. Deadpool is playing in 3,558 theaters, including Imax locations.ĭeadpool will easily claim the top Presidents Day opening of all time, blowing away the $94 million earned last year by Fifty Shades of Grey over the four-day weekend, as well as the top February launch in history.
The net budget is $58 million, a modest number for a major studio superhero title.
(Sometimes, the campaign was as irreverent and out there as the film itself). But estimates kept being revised upwards on Friday as grosses poured.īox Office: 'Deadpool' Makes History With $132.4M Weekend, Colossal $152.2M Holidayįox made Deadpoolwith Marvel Enterprises via its licensing deals for the X-Men universe of characters, and, along with Reynolds, spent months aggressively marketing the movie. Heading into the holiday weekend, tracking had suggested it would open to $65 million or $70 million over the long holiday weekend. (Only 10 superhero movies have crossed $100 million in any given three-day weekend.)ĭeadpool is a sizeable victory for Reynolds and Fox, who spent 11 years debating whether to make the irreverent movie, since it’s one of the rare Marvel comic book movies to be rated R. Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool earned a record $47.5 million on Friday, putting in course for an estimated three-day gross of $117 million and a stunning four-day haul of $130 million over the long Valentine’s Day/Presidents Day weekend - among the top 10 comic book openings of all time and the biggest ever for an R-rated title. Oh, and Wade Wilson is now operating under an alias: Deadpool.It’s summertime in February at the North American box office. Killing Ajax may not be as easy it seems, as Ajax is also a mutant and the meddling superhero Colossus and his sidekick Negasonic Teenage Warhead keep getting in the way. He now has two aims: find Vanessa and make Ajax pay for what he did to him.
Ajax tries to keep him a prisoner but he escapes. The treatment results in Wilson getting powers of accelerated healing but also leaves him terribly disfigured. While undergoing the treatment he discovers that it will involve him becoming a mutant, and he will need to undergo several painful tests to discover what his mutant abilities are. After initially turning him down, Wilson agrees, and meets the man behind the project, Ajax. Things look bleak but a man appears who says he can be cured, through a treatment that gives him superhero powers. Life is idyllic until one day he is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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