Marvel Studios (mostly) knows box office success, even when the Disney-owned studio ventures into the world of R-rated movies. Deadpool & Wolverine is now the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time.
The superhero film takes the spot from another comic book-related property, 2019’s Joker. The Todd Phillips-directed film grossed $1.079 billion when it was released and sat as the only R-rated billion-dollar film for some time, but now Deadpool & Wolverine hacks, slashes, and swears into the billion-dollar club.
Before the weekend, the third Deadpool movie crossed $1.086 billion, with $516.8 million domestically and $568.8 million internationally. The only other R-rated movie to get close to a billion was Christopher Nolan’s 2023 film, Oppenheimer.
Marvel Studios and superhero movies needed this win; Deadpool & Wolverine is the first superhero movie to cross $1 billion since Spider-Man: No Way Home two and a half years ago and the first MCU proper film since Avengers: Endgame.
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The rest of August seems pretty set for the Marvel movie to earn some extra cash, but it’s already broken a crazy number of records in its run.
Wolverine is recovering from his injuries when he crosses paths with the loudmouth, Deadpool. They team up to defeat a common enemy.”
Deadpool & Wolverine is directed by Shawn Levy (Free Guy) and stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman alongside Fox/Marvel veterans Jennifer Garner (Elektra), Stefan Kapacic (Colossus), Brianna Hildebrand (Negasonic Teenage Warhead), Morena Baccarin (Vanessa), Karan Soni (Dopinder), Leslie Uggams (Blind Al), Shioli Kutsuna (Yukio), Lewis Tan (Shatterstar), Rob Delaney (Peter), Aaron Stanford (Pyro), and Tyler Mane (Sabretooth) with new additions including Matthew Macfadyen (Succession) as Mr. Paradox and Emma Corrin (The Crown) as Cassandra Nova.
