Box Office: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Enjoying Marvel-Ous Second Weekend With Record-Making $94M-Plus
Deadpool & Wolverine is showing no sign of slowing down. On the contrary, it is enjoying one of the biggest second weekends in history as it obliterates more records.
The Marvel Studios and Disney tentpole earned $28.3 million on Friday, putting it on course to gross a better-than-expected $94 million to $96 million in its sophomore outing, for a 10-day domestic total north of $390 million. It achieved a milestone Friday, when it crossed the $300 million threshhold and passed up Deadpool 2‘s lifetime domestic cume of $318.5 million.
By Sunday, the movie will top the entire lifetime runs of the first two Deadpool films, both domestically and globally, after just two weekends in theaters. Deadpool‘s domestic earnings were $363.1 million for a global total of $782.6 worldwide; the second film’s worldwide total was $734.5 million.
Its worldwide tally should stand at $785 million to $800 million through Sunday, as it shoots up the list of top-grossing R-rated films worldwide to No. 3. Todd Phillips’ Joker is presently No. 1 at $1.064 billion, so it will take another week or so for Deadpool & Wolverine to overtake that film (bets are on the film to ultimately land in the $1.2 billion range). Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is currently at no. 2 globally for an R-rated film with $975.2 million.