DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE Is Now The 15th Highest-Grossing Movie In The US - Is DEADPOOL 4 Already In The Works?

Though Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will likely take the #1 spot this weekend, Deadpool and Wolverine continues to perform very well at the box office six weeks after its release...

By MarkCassidy - Sep 07, 2024 03:09 PM EST

Filed Under: Deadpool & Wolverine

After taking in $41.5 million across Friday and preview screenings for the second-biggest opening day ever for a September release, Tim Burton's Beetlejuice sequel looks set to claim the No. 1 spot at the domestic box office this weekend - a position Deadpool and Wolverine has held (bar a brief Alien: Romulus takeover) since it arrived in theaters over six weeks ago.

BO estimates were always fairly high for the superhero team-up movie, but it has gone on to exceed all expectations, recently passing Joker to become the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time.

Now, D&W has crossed $608 million domestically to become the 15th highest-grossing movie ever in the US.

Marvel Studios really needed this win after its last few movies underperformed (The Marvels was actually the lowest-grossing MCU instalment), and we'd day Kevin Feige will soon (if he hasn't already) be on to director Shawn Levy, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman about potentially getting the gang back together.

There is a rumor doing the rounds online that Deadpool 4 is already in development, but we can confirm that this is not accurate - at least, not yet. While a direct Deadpool and Wolverine follow-up is sure to be discussed and might well materialize at some point, Logan and the Merc with a Mouth are far more likely to reunite in one of the upcoming Avengers movies (Secret Wars, if rumors are to be believed).

Have you been to see Deadpool and Wolverine yet? If so, what did you think? Check out our review here, and drop us a comment down below.

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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34 Comments

NonPlayerC - 9/7/2024, 3:07 PM

Hugh- “every time I think I’ve got out… they pull me back in…”

Jackraow21 - 9/7/2024, 4:33 PM

@NonPlayerC - Until he’s 90… and I’ll keep showing up to see it too. The GOAT.

Malatrova15 - 9/7/2024, 3:08 PM

Only if Jonathan Majors takes on Blade role , or maybe EMMY NOMINATED ACTOR DON EL CHEETO

Izaizaiza - 9/7/2024, 3:09 PM

Jesus. I never need to see Jackman as Wolverine again. I know I'm going have to, but I'm so ready for a comic accurate, short, berserker interesting version of the character. Glad the movie did well. It was fun. Just beyond tired of Jackman's cosplay version of Logan

CharlesLeeRay - 9/7/2024, 3:42 PM

@Izaizaiza - they're not going to the short Wolverine route. As tall as Hugh is, the only thing he always needed to do is simply do the Wolverine poses and that's it, that way he looks shorter.
I was looking forward to see the next Wolverine because more likely it was gonna be more accurate, poses, fighting style, suits, attitude; but, guess what? They already acomplished all of that with Jackman himself in D&W. So, for now, there's no urge to see another Wolverine, because now it feels like the true one.

harryba11zack - 9/7/2024, 4:04 PM

@Izaizaiza - unless it's a hobbit with a ring, a midget is just never gonna sell movies like a hugh Jackman

LSHF - 9/7/2024, 3:11 PM

"DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE Is Now The 15th Highest-Grossing Movie In The US."

Excellent news for Marvel Studios! Congratulations to all involved!

"Is DEADPOOL 4 Already In The Works?"

I don't know.

cubrn - 9/7/2024, 3:16 PM

I hope there isn't a Deadpool 4. I think he works better in an X-Force setting and the whole point of the third film is him wanting to be a part of a team.

AnthonyVonGeek - 9/7/2024, 3:19 PM

Fun movie. I wish that they would have brought back the Wolverine variants to help fight the Deadpool variants. That would have been insane.

DocSpock - 9/7/2024, 3:21 PM

@AnthonyVonGeek -

Cool! That crazy concept is exactly why movie watching tools like tequila & cookies were invented.

ModHaterSLADE - 9/7/2024, 3:29 PM

Deadpool is a household name at this point. HIGHLY unlikely it doesn't get a sequel or at least an X-Force spinoff.

PatientXero - 9/7/2024, 3:34 PM

I remember when this website was good, and articles were proof read and didn’t have numerous mistakes.

MarkCassidy - 9/7/2024, 3:40 PM

@PatientXero - I don't.

PatientXero - 9/7/2024, 4:45 PM

@MarkCassidy - Well, I guess you wouldn’t

McMurdo - 9/7/2024, 4:58 PM

@MarkCassidy - ahahah 🤣 well played

mountainman - 9/7/2024, 3:36 PM

Like others have said, let’s get an X-Force spin off instead.

Wolverine, Cable, Domino, Deadpool, X-23, Psylocke, Archangel.

Rated R.

Don’t care what the story is as long as the characters are bad ass and the action is good.

Jackraow21 - 9/7/2024, 4:30 PM

@mountainman - Yes! I’m in.

McMurdo - 9/7/2024, 4:59 PM

@mountainman - that's the way to go keep the other characters serious and have DP be the comic relief but reel him in a bit since it's not a DP movie. I would be so hyped if they gave us this.

IAmAHoot - 9/7/2024, 3:54 PM

Deadpool & Wolverine clearly served as a goodbye to the Fox Universe, but also seemed to be a goodbye/endnote for the Deadpool films too. Doesn't mean there won't be another, but if discussions are taking place I doubt it's Reynolds who's getting that ball rolling.

McMurdo - 9/7/2024, 5:00 PM

@IAmAHoot -lol in no way did it seem like a goodbye to Deadpool films. What are you talking about???

IAmAHoot - 9/7/2024, 5:11 PM

@McMurdo - It was clearly a cap to a trilogy, especially with the Fox Universe being fully done past this.

TheTurd - 9/7/2024, 4:04 PM

There's no way, Disney is done milking the Deadpool franchise

TheShellyMan - 9/7/2024, 4:13 PM

I agree with some of you here, I want an X-Force spin-off instead.

MCUKnight11 - 9/7/2024, 4:33 PM

X-force
Brotherhood of mutants
Starjammers
Namor
Movies we should see during the Mutant saga.

Scarilian - 9/7/2024, 4:38 PM

@MCUKnight11 -
I think the notion of the mutant saga is a distraction. If the box office for the MCU films does not improve We are not going to get the mutant saga. We'll get Avengers Doomsday (2026), Avenger Secret Wars (2027) and Avengers Forever (2028) before a reboot probably after a break of a year or two.

If the reboot is success they'll probably tie it back to MCU Phase 1-6 using the notion that the universal reboot created this reality that we are now following.

Scarilian - 9/7/2024, 4:35 PM

I am terrified of all the horrifically bad lessons they are learning from these multiverse films:

• Spider-man: NWH told them they needed nostalgia even if it weren't in their own franchise
• Doctor Strange MOM told them they needed to leech off fan casting even if they don't act how they should
• Deadpool 3 told them they could just have the visuals of nostalgic characters without development

Avengers 5/6 is going to be the product of all these wrong lessons.

Vigor - 9/7/2024, 4:36 PM

@Scarilian - you have a penchant for looking for the bad in everything. It's like, a talent

cubrn - 9/7/2024, 4:42 PM

@Scarilian - What would be the point of a multiversal story if it's not used for fan casting and nostalgia?

Scarilian - 9/7/2024, 4:48 PM

@Vigor -
It's not my fault that this reality is a broken one. I simply acknowledge it as what it is. Being constantly optimistic about a decaying situation is just an act of deluding one selves to the situation at hand.

Pattern recognition should be enough to tell people that us having Spider-man: NWH, Doctor Strange MOM and Deadpool 3 each having different contradictory ways to portray nostalgic characters and fan service is very likely a method of Disney testing the waters in regards to what they could do for Avengers 5/6/7 as the culmination of the multiverse story telling.

Blade was likely going to be part of the test also, as that was going to take place in an alternate reality.

Fanta5tic Four has now taken its place with the same concept, having an entire movie set in an entirely different reality disconnected from the main storyline, bracing people for the eventual reboot. Will people reject Fanta5tic Four because it's not directly in the main MCU timeline? That's the lesson Disney will learn from that film - determining if it's a full or partial reboot after Secret Wars/Avengers Forever.

Scarilian - 9/7/2024, 4:58 PM

@cubrn -
"What would be the point of a multiversal story if it's not used for fan casting and nostalgia?"

Stakes being higher primarily, giving justification for a large scale team-up.

If the stakes are so high that the multiverse is at threat you've got justification for another Endgame-like scenario, only this time you can include even more established characters than before because everyone would respond to such a threat - as opposed to how Thanos was able to just go around wiping out half the life on planets for around 20ish years and nobody did anything about it. You don't need the fan casting or to appeal to nostalgia outside of what you have developed in your own storylines.

Arguably one of the better concepts of a multiverse story-lines is just a jaded version of Batman wanting to wipe out the main reality because he's become a nihilist. The MCU's most recent explanation of the multiverse coupled with an apparent leak of the original plot-line of Avengers 5 hinted at the main villain just wanting to wipe out a single 'Anchor Being' (being Peter Parker for the MCU) and that upon doing so the main timeline would collapse. For such a storyline you wouldn't need to bring in anyone from a different multiverse as the threat is extremely personal and focused primarily on Peter's life and the main timeline, with the ramifications impacting the multiverse if they fail.

I'd rather have developed characters dealing with an understandable and relatable story-line with a focus on the characters journey as opposed to just endless visual husks of characters we may have seen in a comic or in a failed film or series at one point.

Jackraow21 - 9/7/2024, 4:37 PM

Go the Uncanny X-Force route… but sub Cable for Fantomex. He can bodyslide them around, plus he’s got safe houses they can operate out of. Team should be Wolverine, Deadpool, Cable, Psylocke and Archangel. Throw in Domino too.

McMurdo - 9/7/2024, 5:03 PM

@Jackraow21 - Would love to see Fantomex in live action

SuperCat - 9/7/2024, 4:41 PM

Scarilian - 9/7/2024, 5:01 PM

@SuperCat -
Then he gets instantly defeated by attacking the one guy he knows who can counter his powers, mocked repeatedly, humiliated, falls on his balls, gets joked about constantly and dies in a horrific way after Deadpool throws him under the bus despite his attempt to help them earlier.

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DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE Is Now The 15th Highest-Grossing Movie In The US - Is DEADPOOL 4 Already In The Works?

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