‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Has Biggest Opening Weekend For Any R-Rated Movie

Deadpool & Wolverine smashes expectations in the opening weekend, making $438.3M worldwide: $233.3M internationally, and $205M domestically. 

 

According to Deadline Reporting, Deadpool & Wolverine’s opening weekend makes it the biggest R-rated opening of all time domestically and globally. It surpasses Deadpool which made $264M and overtook Joker which made $147M. Along with this, Deadpool & Wolverine is the biggest opening, domestically and internationally, of this year as well as the biggest opening weekend since Avatar: Ways of Water was released in 2022. 

 

The Top 10 opening weekends were from China at $24M, the UK at $22.1M, Mexico at $18.7M, Australia making $13M, Germany at $10M, Brazil making $10M, India at $10M, France from $9.4M, Korea at $8.3M and Italy at $7.5M according to Deadline. 

 

Along with a stellar regular opening, Rich Gelfond, IMax CEO told Deadline “Deadpool & Wolverine delivered one of the biggest Imax opening weekends of all time — continuing our hot start to the third quarter and furthering our momentum ahead of a fantastic slate over the next several years. Kevin Feige and his team remarkably continue to break new creative ground, and we believe Deadpool & Wolverine will only leave fans wanting more ahead of several highly anticipated Filmed for IMax Marvel releases in 2025.”

Maya Oeverman: Maya Oeverman is a Student at Calvin University in Michigan, where she studies English Literature, Journalism, Film and Media, and Psychology. She is very passionate about storytelling and enjoys reading, writing, and watching movies, and one day hopes to write her own books and movies. In her free time she can often be found exploring outside or working on a next writing project.
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