Deadpool and Wolverine It is officially the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. dead pool The sequel grossed $1.086 billion worldwide, beating its 2019 total. jokerWhich amounted to $1.078 billion at the time.
The new milestone for the Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman-starring film comes after the Marvel film grossed $211 million domestically during its opening weekend, making it the sixth-biggest opening of all time. It has since grossed an additional $516 million in North America and $568 million internationally, according to diverse.
“Thank you for making Marvel Studios’ first R-rated film the biggest ever,” Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige said in a statement posted to social media. “It’s amazing to see that audiences love this film as much as we all loved making it. All of those conversations were worth it!”
Deadpool and Wolverine It is the first R-rated film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It also featured a number of A-list stars, including Chris Evans as The Fantastic FourThe Human Torch, Wesley Snipes as Blade, and Jennifer Garner as Elektra.
“[It’s] “Full of all the extreme violence, shock humor, and nihilism you'd expect from a Reynolds side franchise, but now the mercenary with the mouth can legally mention Thor and Kevin Feige's names in his sidebar comments,” one comment read. Rolling Stone It also brings back Hugh Jackman's character Logan, who you may know as Wolverine, for one last (?) round of what Deadpool calls “fun, chaos, and leftovers.”
The film even received praise from Taylor Swift during its opening weekend, who called the film a “belly sandwich” and celebrated it as “Reynolds' best work of his life” and a “true gateway to joy.”
Jackman has previously spoken about coming out of retirement for the film, sharing that he knew Wolverine could return for a double-take after seeing dead pool For the first time.
“At that moment, everything became bright to me. At that moment, I saw 48 hoursNick Nolte, Eddie Murphy… I've seen it. The Odd Couple“I felt like these two characters were meant to be together, and I literally announced my retirement three days ago… It took us six years to get there, but we got there,” Jackman said during a visit to Hot Ones.
