DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE Holds On To Box Office No. 1 Spot SIX Weeks In; Approaches $600M Domestic

As expected, Marvel Studios' Deadpool and Wolverine has managed to hold on to the No. 1 spot at the box office as it heads into its sixth weekend in theaters...

By MarkCassidy - Aug 31, 2024 11:08 AM EST

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Marvel Studios' first ever R-rated movie, Deadpool and Wolverine, has handily held on to the No. 1 spot at the domestic box office as it heads into its sixth weekend in theaters.

The Shawn Levy-directed blockbuster was briefly dethroned by Alien: Romulus earlier this month and dropped to second place, but managed to claw its way back to the top spot thanks to very little competition.

Several movies - including the Dennis Quaid-led biopic Reagan and Sony and Blumhouse’s AI horror flick Afraid - release this weekend, but none are expected to cause any problems for Deadpool and Wolverine over the Labor Day holiday.

The Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman-led Multiverse adventure - which recently passed Joker to become the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time - is expected to take in $12 million to $13 million over the extended break, and should pass $600 million domestic by Monday (it'll have to reach Inside Out 2's $646 million to become the highest-grossing film of 2024).

DP&W's worldwide total now sits at around $1.21 billion.

#DeadpoolAndWolverine holds #1 spot FRI with $3.6M. Will try to reach about $15M over 4-day Labor Day holiday wknd. That would be its 5th total wknd at #1 with domestic #boxoffice cume breaking $600M on MON! pic.twitter.com/T2qgJU1fb6
— Gitesh Pandya (@GiteshPandya) August 31, 2024

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The MPAA gave the movie an official R-rating for: "Strong bloody violence and language throughout, gore, and sexual references."

“Marvel Studios presents their most significant mistake to date - Deadpool & Wolverine," reads the new synopsis. "A listless Wade Wilson toils away in civilian life. His days as the morally flexible mercenary, Deadpool, behind him. When his homeworld faces an existential threat, Wade must reluctantly suit-up again with an even more reluctantlier... reluctanter? Reluctantest? He must convince a reluctant Wolverine to - F*ck. Synopses are so f*cking stupid.”

In addition to Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in the title roles, Deadpool and Wolverine will see Morena Baccarin (Vanessa), Leslie Uggams (Blind Al), Rob Delaney (Peter), Brianna Hildebrand (Negasonic Teenage Warhead) And Shioli Kutsuna (Yukio) return as their respective characters, and they'll be joined by franchise newcomers Emma Corrin (The Crown) and Matthew Macfadyen (Succession), who will play a TV agent and Charles Xavier's evil counterpart, Cassandra Nova.

Shawn Levy directs Deadpool and Wolverine from a script by Ryan Reynolds, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and Zeb Wells.

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37 Comments

OptimusCrime - 8/31/2024, 11:01 AM

LET THE CHOIR SING!

SuperiorHeckler - 8/31/2024, 11:06 AM

*NOTE TO DISNEY/MARVEL: See what happens when you give the general audience and the committed fanbase what they want? Kinda' nice for everyone concerned isn't it? 🤓

defenderofthefaith - 8/31/2024, 11:08 AM

@SuperiorHeckler - Why is there so much whining these days?

clintthahamster - 8/31/2024, 11:15 AM

@SuperiorHeckler - All they have to do is put two of the most popular characters in comics history, one of whom hasn't been onscreen in nearly a decade, in the only MCU movie of the year, and pack it wall-to-wall with cameos from 25 years of beloved CBMs. It's not rocket science. They should just do that every time.

ShamusG - 8/31/2024, 1:45 PM

@SuperiorHeckler - why is this so hard for them to get??? Honor the source and feed your target audience what it craves. There was diversity in the casting and it worked great! They could literally make 3-4 movies like this every year and the fans will show up.

marvel72 - 8/31/2024, 1:46 PM

@defenderofthefaith - Because Disney Marvel make shit most of the time and this was a pleasant surprise.

defenderofthefaith - 8/31/2024, 2:07 PM

@marvel72 - look, we have a condoner of whining. I never understand the way people need to tell everyone they didn't like something. And they just don't say they didn't like it, they have to be all theatrical and colorful as they do it. Saying outrageous and juvenile stuff. Plus they say it over and over again. Like it's their mission to destroy it when in reality it will do nothing. Whatever they are whining about is already made and therefore can't be changed. I just think people constantly knock things because it makes them feel cool. They want everyone to know that something is beneath them. If I don't like something I move on to something else. Why waste my time on something I don't like? Makes no sense to me.

dragon316 - 8/31/2024, 2:10 PM

@clintthahamster - your saying they put Deadpool and wolverine in the marvels that movie will be good and she hulk tv series ?

defenderofthefaith - 8/31/2024, 11:10 AM

Back to back billion dollar movies for Disney. After reading the comments in the Snow White article you would think Disney will be gone soon.

bobevanz - 8/31/2024, 11:34 AM

@defenderofthefaith - back to back? I could have sworn that garbage Marvels movie was last and that did not make a billion lol

defenderofthefaith - 8/31/2024, 11:38 AM

@bobevanz - I would like to demonstrate the intelligence shown in this comment. Marvels was not the last Disney movie before Deadpool. It was Inside Out 2 and it made over a billion. The commentor even lol his own comment. This is what a lot of society on the Internet has become now.

TheClungerine - 8/31/2024, 12:06 PM

@defenderofthefaith - you didn't have to kill him like that 🤣😭

TheWalkingCuban - 8/31/2024, 1:23 PM

@TheClungerine -

99OPTIMISTPRIME - 8/31/2024, 11:12 AM

I think the reduced amount of superhero movies this year, helped a little. Also the desire to wanna see new X-Men content.

Steel86 - 8/31/2024, 11:30 AM

@99OPTIMISTPRIME - Not only superhero films but a lack of big movies period. I think Twisters and Aliens were the only two other BIG movies this summer. Shot Tom's Mission Impossible should've come out this summer it would've faired alot better.

vectorsigma - 8/31/2024, 11:37 AM

@Steel86 - i agree with this point. The strikes resulted to less big movies this year and no competition. Good scheduling was a factor too.

The real measure of Marvel being back is next year imo

Apophis71 - 8/31/2024, 12:01 PM

@99OPTIMISTPRIME - Maybe, that said I do think it was always likely to be an $800M BO regardless as long as most considered it to be a good film, didn't have to be perfect, just as good with similar tone to the prior two Deadpool films.

The past track record for DP and Ryan's increasing skills at marketing, plus Hugh's Wolverine with their years of online sparring and connected to both FoxMen and MCU also gave it chance at the billion if well recieved and increasing seemed a given with hype levels by the time reviews landed.

All those factors combined and well recieved was enough to counter the weaker general BO and ensure it felt like an event which in the main seems to be needed to turn out audiences on mass post pandemic.

I doubt those extra factors you mentioned added more than 10% on top but we'll never know but it is fair to think it added sprinkles at least with less direct competition and longer waits for other CBM's :D

On the flipside however if all of last years CBM's hadn't performed so poorly in the main maybe it would have done better with more brand/genre trust, again impossible to be certain.

dragon316 - 8/31/2024, 2:14 PM

@Apophis71 - dragonballz heroes had zero marketing theaters , tv online that was number one movie in theaters marketing not all people go online for marketing on movies they mostly stay on tv

MadThanos - 8/31/2024, 11:21 AM

Hi, Tom Rothman!

vectorsigma - 8/31/2024, 11:32 AM

Clap clap clap, the mcu is saved until February 😂

bobevanz - 8/31/2024, 11:34 AM

Amuro - 8/31/2024, 12:08 PM

He really IS Marvel Jesus, savior of the MCU.

As for Marvel Studios : "Can we just be done ? With the whole multiverse thing ? It’s not great. It’s just been miss after miss after miss. Into the Spider-verse did the multiverse first and they did it best !"

Timerider - 8/31/2024, 12:35 PM

@Amuro - No, the multiverse will continue until Secret Wars.

Apophis71 - 8/31/2024, 12:55 PM

@Amuro - Seems to me their biggest hits have all been multiverse movies in these last two phases, as in NWH, MoM and DP&W (Endgame was technicaly one too with Far from Home a fake multiverse movie which could be added to the hit list).

I get it, but in terms of shows the only one that was multiverse was Loki, again one of their biggest hits so don't think any issues any have is the aspect some seem to think it is.

Sure, Quantumania and the Marvels were not well recieved but also not realy multiverse movies either, set up for future ones with end credits sure but not in the main story at all and wasn't why they were poorly recieved.

Izaizaiza - 8/31/2024, 1:05 PM

@Amuro - Sadly, it will be around for a while. So goddamn tiresome

Spidey91 - 8/31/2024, 12:40 PM

He has risen baby girl!

TheVisionary25 - 8/31/2024, 12:43 PM

@Spidey91 - lol

He might truly be Marvel Jesus

TheVisionary25 - 8/31/2024, 12:46 PM

Sweet , I know I keep congratulating the cast & crew but it continues to be well deserved success since it was a solid movie imo!!.

Granted the lack of strong competition has helped aside from Alien Romulus though sadly amongst other factors perhaps , it may not have the rewatchability factor that DP & W seems to for people hence it not being able to keep the top spot.

Anyway , I don’t see it being dethroned at the box office till either BeetleJuice , BeetleJuice on the 6th or even Transformers One on the 20th at most!!.

TheNewYorker - 8/31/2024, 1:14 PM

Multiverse, variants, etc, etc.. So tiring.

WhatIfRickJames - 8/31/2024, 1:36 PM

This was such a flop. Couldn’t even do Madame Web numbers

MisterDoctor217 - 8/31/2024, 1:40 PM

Ok this is overperorming

TheMetaMan - 8/31/2024, 1:57 PM

@MisterDoctor217 - init. 😂😅😅

dragon316 - 8/31/2024, 2:15 PM

@MisterDoctor217 - as it should well deserve by fans of these characters

GeneralZod - 8/31/2024, 1:48 PM

Great news for Marvel Studios and the CBM genre generally. But also bad news for US movie theaters, because we're at the end of summer and there's basically nothing else that is exciting general audiences enough to spend $$$ to go to the cinema. Romulus will struggle to reach $300MM global (well short of the $400MM expected) -- and it's a question whether it will cross $100MM in North America. American viewers are good at repeat viewings if the WOM is good (DP/W is a perfect example of that), and I think the WOM on Romulus had been mixed.

dragon316 - 8/31/2024, 2:16 PM

@GeneralZod - wom = women of marvel ?

marvel72 - 8/31/2024, 1:59 PM

dragon316 - 8/31/2024, 2:17 PM

@marvel72 - best part of movie I can watch over and over

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DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE Holds On To Box Office No. 1 Spot SIX Weeks In; Approaches $600M Domestic

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