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Box Office: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Poised to Shatter R-Rated Record With $170 Million-Plus Debut

"Deadpool & Wolverine" should set a new opening weekend record for an R-rated film.

“Deadpool & Wolverine,” the latest installment in Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe (and the first to be headlined by comic book characters that were previously licensed to 20th Century Fox), looks to close out the July box office with a bang. However, some box office experts suggest that several factors, such as excitement for the return of Jackman’s brooding mutant, his long-awaited odd coupling with Reynolds and talk of surprise cameos, could propel the film’s three-day tally to $190 to $200 million. Though the comic book giant has delivered an unprecedented string of blockbusters across 33 films over 15 years, it has stumbled with more recent tentpoles like “Eternals,” “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and “The Marvels.” In response, the company is trying to slow its cadence of spinoffs, sequels and TV series, leaving “Deadpool & Wolverine” as 2024’s lone Marvel Studios movie — the first time that’s happened since 2012’s “The Avengers.”

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