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‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Obliterates R-Rated Record With $205 Million Opening Weekend, Eighth-Biggest in Box Office History
"Deadpool & Wolverine," a comic book adventure that pairs two of Marvel's most popular characters, is turbocharging the box office.
Though the comic book behemoth has delivered an unprecedented string of blockbusters across 33 films over 15 years, more recent entries like “Eternals,” “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and “The Marvels” have misfired at the box office. Over the weekend, the studio announced at Comic Con that “Iron Man” star Robert Downey Jr. is returning to play the villainous Victor von Doom in 2026’s “Avengers: Doomsday.” This summer also marks a return to form for Disney, which has long been one of the dominant Hollywood studios but stumbled in 2023 with a series of underperforming blockbusters including “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” “The Haunted Mansion,” and “Wish.” So far in 2024, “Inside Out 2” has overtaken “Frozen II” to stand as the highest-grossing animated film in history with $1.5 billion, while “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” neared $400 million globally.
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