2024-07-31 08:08:36
Marvel’s new superhero story topped the box office charts over the weekend. Deadpool & Wolverine grossed $205 million in the US and Canada alone, making it the best first weekend of all this year’s titles. This was reported by The Walt Disney Company.
The film, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, has limited availability in the US. The R rating means that people under the age of 17 can only see it when accompanied by an adult. Nevertheless, in this category it has historically achieved a better result than any other film, surpassing the previous two Deadpool installments from 2016 and 2018. At the same time, it has a better start in cinemas than this year’s number one so far, the animated In the Head 2, which in the first weekend in the US and Canada grossed $154.2 million.
The figures from foreign markets are even higher, including the Czech Republic, where Deadpool & Wolverine added another 233 million dollars. Worldwide, it has 438 million dollars in the first weekend, in conversion of 10.2 billion crowns. In the Czech Republic, 115,000 people saw it in the first weekend.
According to Variety.com, the project worked on a budget of about $200 million, with another $100 million required for promotion costs. Nevertheless, after three days in cinemas, it started to earn money. “It takes a while to get your head around what exactly it means. Thank you very much,” commented Ryan Reynolds, the representative of one of the main roles, on the success. But the studio is also satisfied, even analysts last week did not expect that Deadpool & Wolverine would be such a huge success.
Along with the animated In the Head 2, the novelty will help Disney recover from last year’s commercial failures, such as the superhero film Marvels or the lukewarmly received Indiana Jones and the Fates. It’s also good news for cinema operators, which saw slightly fewer big-budget titles than before this year as a result of last year’s Hollywood strike by screenwriters and actors.
At the same time, thanks to the success of Deadpool & Wolverine, Marvel’s superhero saga titles have now grossed more than $30 billion worldwide, something no other franchise has ever done. For example, all the films of the Star Wars series have just over 10 billion dollars, while the films about agent 007 James Bond are less than eight billion dollars.
At the same time, according to Variety.com, the new tactic of Disney is paying off, after the launch of the Disney+ streaming service in 2019, it tried to overwhelm the audience with a lot of sequels, TV series or standalone stories of previously minor characters. Nevertheless, the Marvel brand has been rather stagnant in recent years. In response, company director Bob Iger announced that Marvel would stop betting on quantity and prioritize quality again. “We will slowly take off the gas. Instead of four series a year, we will make two, and instead of four films a year, a maximum of two or three,” he announced this year. Deadpool & Wolverine is the studio’s only feature film this year.
Video: Trailer z filmu Deadpool & Wolverine
The film Deadpool & Wolverine has been showing in Czech cinemas since last Thursday. | Video: Falcon