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‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ To Tear Up The World With $360M Global Opening, Restoring Marvel Cinematic Universe Glory – Box Office Preview


EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios/Disney‘s Deadpool & Wolverine finally opens this weekend, not only further rebounding the post-strike box office to a healthy place, but also revitalizing the MCU’s brilliance. It was only last November that the studio fell on hard times with its lowest opening ever in The Marvels at $46.1M U.S./$110M worldwide. The current range […]

Repeat business is for certain: While Doctor Strange 2 wove in some parts of the 20th Century Fox owned Marvel universe, the money factor in Deadpool & Wolverine to stoke fans is its full and smart embrace of that library’s X-Men dramatis personae. The top six global openings for Hollywood movies unadjusted for inflation post Covid are Spider-Man: No Way Home($600.5M), Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness($452M), Avatar: The Way of Water($441.7M), Jurassic World: Dominion($386M), Super Mario Bros($377.2M) and Barbie($356.3M). Reynolds, Jackman and Levy made a very high-profile stop in Shanghai earlier this month — kicking off the D&W international tour and marking the first time a grouping of talent has traveled to the market for a purely Hollywood film since the pandemic (Christopher Nolan was the first filmmaker to go, in support of Oppenheimer, last August).

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