Behold the box office feats of Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine this past weekend:
Highest R-Rated Opening of All-Time Both Worldwide and Domestic: At $438.3M worldwide and $205M domestic. Deadpool & Wolverine beats previous record-holder Deadpool from 2016 ($264M WW in like for like markets excluding China, $132.4M domestic).
Biggest Global opening since Avatar The Way of Water ($439M in like for like markets at current rates).
Highest July opening weekend of all-time at domestic box office, surpassing The Lion King ($191.8M).
Marvel Cinematic Universe at 34 titles and $30 billion is the highest grossing film franchise of all-time.
The 34th consecutive MCU release to debut #1 at the domestic box office.
Highest domestic opening weekend of 2024 and highest since Dec. 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home ($260.1M).
No. 8 highest opening domestic weekend of all time.
No. 5 highest Superhero opening weekend of all time (behind Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Avengers: Infinity War and The Avengers).
No. 2 highest Opening weekend for a third instalment of all time (behind only Avengers: Endgame).
As of this post, Walt Disney is responsible for 16 of the top 20 opening domestic weekends of all time – with the MCU responsible for 11 of the top 20.
At $233.3M international, D&W is the highest opening weekend ever for a US R-rated release, surpassing Joker ($147M) on a like-for-like basis at current rates.
Highest opening weekend abroad since Avatar: The Way of Water, surpassing Inside Out 2 ($223M) on a like-for-like basis at current rates.
Highest opening weekend of 2024 in Germany, UK, Australia and Japan (non-local) as well as many smaller markets.
To date this year, Walt Disney has released the No. 1 title of May (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes), June (Inside Out 2) and now July (D&W).