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Budget $200 million - ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ seems to be sold out in cinemas around the world

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Monday, July 29, 2024 3:58 AM

Deadpool Wolverine used to be Fox Products then Marvel bought Fox and after the Big Mouse Disney purchased Marvel


Will it beat other R-Rated?

Gladiator, Crash, Joker, Saving Private Ryan, The Matrix, Fifty Shades of Grey, The Hangover Part, Halloween, The Passion of the Christ, Oppenheimer



and of course Morena Baccarin,
Firefly/Serenity
Gotham
Deadpool franchise


R-Rated

yes its a very expensive production and when profits are low we have said movies should try keep budgets under 250 Million even below 120 Million but its going to be a big Box Office Comicbook Disney Marvel hit
I'm not sure on Motion Picture rating systems across the world, Universal movies often do better than PG-13 and PG-13 do better than R – Restricted Under 17 I think there is a separate British Board of Classification for example, a Ministry of Communications system Quebec Canada, a Japan rating system and European rating systems.


‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Opens to $205 Million and Makes It the Summer of Box-Office Overperformers

https://www.indiewire.com/news/box-office/deadpool-wolverine-205-milli
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the competition this week is 'Twisters'?

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Twisters is done.

Deadpool and Wolverine came out on Friday and made $96 Million with $38 Million of that being from Preview Thurdsay.

Meanwhile, Twisters made $10 Million on Friday, a 68% drop from opening weekend, and less money than it pulled in on Tuesday and Wednesday.

So far, Twisters has only made $176 Million worldwide in 8 days and Deadpool and Wolverine has already made $211 Million worldwide in only 1 day.


Twisters was already going to lose a ton of money for Universal, but it just got murdered because of the release schedule.
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quoting from the Twisters thread

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Monday, July 29, 2024 4:01 AM

Box Office Hit?

great numbers all over but French box office is low, blame Paris Olympics?


Estimated totals through Sunday for Deadpool & Wolverine by international market include:
https://x.com/BORReport/status/1817587868010954939
China - $24.0M
U.K. - $22.1M
Mexico - $18.7M
Australia - $13.0M
Brazil - $10.0M
Germany - $10.0M
India - $10.0M
France - $9.4M
S. Korea - $8.3M
Italy - $7.5M
Spain - $6.9M

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Monday, July 29, 2024 4:14 AM

Oh yeah. It's already a box office hit at $200 Million.

In just 3 days it's grossed $438,300,000 worldwide, or 219% of the production budget. It's only $61.7 Million shy of breaking even for Disney/Marvel. It could make that in the US alone by Wednesday.

It was 12th place worldwide for 2024 after just 1 day, and now sits at 8th place worldwide after one weekend. By Thursday at the very latest it will have displaced both Chinese movies YOLO and Pegasus 2 and take 6th place. By the end of next weekend it is the 3rd place movie of 2024 easily, and may even beat Dune: Part 2 for 2nd place. At that point, only 10 days (maybe 11 days) into its run, Disney has the top 2 movies in 2024 and is just competing with itself.

This is one of the few movies that you can justify that $200 Million price tag.

Assuming that $200 Million actually was the price tag. Bruce doesn't have that up at The-Numbers yet, and until he puts a number up there I don't really give it any credence from anywhere else. We'll see.

But my guess is that even if this one cost as much as Indy 5 did it would still make A LOT of money. Incidentally, that Indy 5 budget is now showing as $402.3 Million on The-Numbers, up from the $345 Million we were initially told it cost when it came out in 2023.

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Indiana-Jones-and-the-Dial-of-Destin
y-(2023)#tab=summary


And even with that $402.3 Million budget, I know that Deadpool and Wolverine would still make money for Disney/Marvel... But it would be just a smidge more than Half a Billion less than it would have made if the budget is only $200 Million. But even then that's still going to be at least a Half a Billion profit for Disney by the end, and if this movie has legs like I think it will, it's going to end up taking 1st place for the year and making quite a bit more than $1.5 Billion by the end.

It's too early to say that this will be the first $2 Billion movie we've seen in a while, but if any movie coming out this year has a shot at that goal, it's Deadpool & Wolverine.

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Monday, July 29, 2024 10:33 PM

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Monday, July 29, 2024 11:57 PM

I'm seeing $444,300,000 worldwide now, so it's already gotten a bump internationally for the weekend. I figure they lowballed that US number too, so maybe this thing makes $450 Million on opening weekend.

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Tuesday, July 30, 2024 6:47 AM

Is this the best box office from a Wolverine film?

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Tuesday, July 30, 2024 8:09 AM

Don't know...

Here's a list of movies where Hugh Jackman played Wolverine before...

X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: First Class, The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past and Logan. He also portrayed an alternate James Howlett/Logan/Wolverine in X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse.

Given that list, I would venture a guess the answer to your question will be yes.

But then you'd have to go and look at the inflation adjustment for every movie too to get an honest answer. I don't have any desire to put all that work into it.

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Tuesday, July 30, 2024 8:11 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'm seeing $444,300,000 worldwide now, so it's already gotten a bump internationally for the weekend. I figure they lowballed that US number too, so maybe this thing makes $450 Million on opening weekend.



It appears the Domestic number was hardly lowballed at all.

Official Opening Weekend number: $444,735,291

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Tuesday, July 30, 2024 12:04 PM

I changed my mind. Here you go...

Here's the list with the year they came out and the Worldwide Box Office (Not adjusted for inflation):

X-Men (2000): $296,872,367
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/X-Men-(2000)#tab=summary

X2: X-Men United (2003): $406,348,630
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/X-Men-2-(2003)#tab=summary

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006): $459,260,946
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/X-Men-The-Last-Stand#tab=summary

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009): $374,825,760
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/X-Men-Origins-Wolverine#tab=summary

X-Men: First Class (2011): $355,408,305
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/X-Men-First-Class#tab=summary

The Wolverine (2013): $416,456,852
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Wolverine-The#tab=summary

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014): $747,862,775
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/X-Men-Days-of-Future-Past#tab=summar
y


X-Men: Apocalypse (2016): $542,537,546
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/X-Men-Apocalypse-(2016)#tab=summary

Logan (2017): $614,202,315
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Logan-(2017)#tab=summary


Here's the same list adjusted for inflation...

X-Men (2000): $541,636,910

X2: X-Men United (2003): $693,829,243

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006): $715,715,812

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009): $548,907,102

X-Men: First Class (2011): $496,403,043

The Wolverine (2013): $561,650,139

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014): $992,497,074

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016): $710,194,842

Logan (2017): $787,234,874

*The inflation adjusted nubmbers were derived from this calculator: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

The only one that was close to a Billion is Days of Future Past from 2014.

Deadpool & Wolverine is going to make at least $1.5 Billion without breaking a sweat.


If I'm missing any movies you feel should be included, let me know.

In all honestly, I've only ever seen 3 of the flicks on the list above, so I am not anything close to an expert on the X-Men/Wolverine movies and I'm just basing this list on what somebody on a Google search said.

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Tuesday, July 30, 2024 7:12 PM

So looking at the line and its current money speed acceleration that's 850 million maybe over $1 billion or $1.4 billion....depending on Overseas and the staying power at home in the US and competition from other movies?


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If I'm missing any movies you feel should be included, let me know.




There are also comparisons to the Deadpool franchise itself

rumors have it there are lots of cameos or guests maybe Captain America or 'Loki' or Johnny Storm Human Torch from Fantastic Four or maybe Henry Cavil?

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Deadpool#tab=summary

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