(L to R) Director Shawn Levy, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman from ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ at San Diego Comic-Con 2024. Photo: Marvel Studios.
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- ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ has made more than $1 billion at the box office.
- It joins ‘Joker’ as an R-Rated movie to have achieved that.
- And the Blake Lively-starring ‘It Ends With Us’ has also had a successful launch.
As it launched to gigantic success at the US box office and beyond, all eyes turned to whether ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ would join the select club of R-Rated releases to cross the $1 billion mark, an achievement only reached so far by ‘Joker’.
And, as the movie continues its groundbreaking run, we all begin to realize that it would indeed cross that marker, the only question remaining being when.
Now we know: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ made $1.029 billion through Sunday this weekend, factoring in an international take of $535.2 million and domestic of $494.3 million.
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What milestones has ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ and Disney now passed?
(L to R) Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool/Wade Wilson and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine/Logan in 20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios’ ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’. Photo by Jay Maidment. © 2024 20th Century Studios / © and ™ 2024 MARVEL.
Among the many milestones that the movie has passed is reaching the billion mark faster than ‘Joker’ (though it has a China release to help with its income).
It’ll likely supersede ‘Joker’s total by the end of the week, which will make it the highest-grossing R-Rated movie of all time. And it’s the most successful movie for both its stars (that would be Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman) and director Shawn Levy.
It also continues the good news for Disney as a studio, which now marks as the only film distributor to have two $1 billion releases in one year.
In total, 55 industry titles have passed the $1 billion threshold with Disney home to 31 of them (including three Fox titles).
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has 11 (including two at Sony, thanks to Spider-Man). Marvel Studios is responsible for more $1 billion+ films than any studio outside of The Walt Disney Studios itself.
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What about ‘It Ends With Us’?
Blake Lively attends the “It Ends With Us” UK Gala Screening at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on August 08, 2024 in London, England. Photo: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Sony Pictures.
The adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestseller, which has been embraced by the online book crowd to an enormous degree, had plenty of anticipation (and some behind-the-scenes drama), Blake Lively as star and producer and a buzzy, if somewhat controversial combo of romantic drama and domestic violence in its storyline.
What’s the story of ‘It Ends With Us’?
(L to R) Brandon Sklenar and Blake Lively (photographed in Dallas) star in ‘It Ends With Us’. Photo: Jade Greene. © 2024 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
‘It Ends With Us’, directed by Justin Baldoni, tells the story of Lily Bloom (Lively), a florist who gets caught in a love triangle between a charming but abusive neurosurgeon, Ryle (Baldoni), and her first boyfriend, Atlas (Brandon Sklenar).
All that has turned the movie into a hit from the start, with the movie managing to earn more than ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ on its opening day (we’re sure there was much mirth in the Reynolds-Lively household over that), and ended up with $50 million domestically, and $80 million globally, a fine start for a movie that carried a $25 million budget.
So, yes… Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively have effectively had a “Barbenheimer” weekend. A “Dead Ends” weekend? Yeah, we’ll workshop that one.
(L to R) Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman attend the UK Fan Event of Marvel Studios’ ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ at Eventim Apollo, London on July 11th, 2024. Photo by StillMoving.Net for The Walt Disney Company Limited.