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‘Deadpool & Wolverine’: Disney’s First R-Rated MCU Title Claws Way To $400M Profit And No. 3 On 2024’s Most Valuable Blockbuster List
Deadpool & Wolverine starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman helped resurrect superhero cinema with $1.3 billion-plus at the worldwide box office.
The best catalyst for box office — in this case, for raunchy, balls-to-the-wall comedy — is absence making the heart grow fonder, and Disney in its inheritance of 20th Century Fox’s portion of Marvel was unabashed in letting Deadpool do his thing after so much time away. Shawn Levy, Ryan Reynolds’ wingman filmmaker on Free Guy, stepped in to take over for David Leitch, but the big sell here was the comeback of superhero movies — not just after the strike, but also after a great deal of fatigue with the genre and waning grosses. Mix in massive mega-star cameos from the original Fox X-Men and New Line’s Blade movies, plus a secret turn by Blake Lively as Lady Deadpool, not to mention pop tunes like Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” playing over an ultraviolent death scenes, and you have the resurrection of superhero cinema at $1.3 billion-plus at the worldwide box office.
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