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'deadpool' Box Office: It's A Record-Crushing $300 Million Worldwide

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The Merc With the Mouth made off with all of the money this Presidents Day holiday weekend, with a record-breaking R-rated debut.

Now that the updated figures are in for the initial Friday-Sunday opening weekend (with solid estimates for the four-day holiday frame), we can confirm without question thatDeadpool just scored the biggest R-rated opening weekend all time. With a $132.7 million Friday-to-Sunday frame, it basically tied with the inflation-adjusted Matrix Reloaded debut ($91m in 2003, $132m in 2016 dollars). It is the first R-rated opening to cross the $100m+ mark, the biggest February debut, the 8th-biggest non-summer debut of all time, and the 17th-biggest opening weekend in history. Just think of how much more money it could have made if moviegoers weren’t so obviously getting weary of costumed superhero comic book movies!

It’s the biggest opening weekend in 20th Century Fox’s history, bigger than any of the prior X-Men films and larger than any of their six Star Wars entries. Regarding comic book movies, it’s the seventh-biggest such debut of all time, behind only two Avengers films, two Dark Knight pics, Iron Man 3and Spider-Man 3. Concerning non-sequels, it’s right between The Hunger Games ($152m) and Man of Steel ($128m) as the second-biggest non-sequel debut of all time (third if you want to count The Avengers). So yeah, friggin Deadpool opened bigger than a Chris Nolan-produced Superman reboot.

Its alleged $150 million four-day debut, which may change slightly when those final figures are released on Tuesday, is the 18th largest four-day total ever, sandwiched between Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn part I and Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn part 2. As noted yesterday, its projected four-day debut is bigger than any five-day Thanksgiving holiday gross in history by around $40 million (Hunger Games: Catching Fire‘s $109m second weekend). Said Fri-Mon numbers will probably change a little when the finals come out, so it may move a little bit up or down the various record charts. The projected $150 million Fri-Mon debut is nearly tied with the 5-day $151m debut of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and just behind the $156m Fri-Mon Memorial Day debut for Walt Disney's DIS +0.93% Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End over Memorial Day 2007.

 

By the way, Deadpool‘s $132.7 million Fri-Sun figure means that it now holds the record for the biggest Fri-Sun opening weekend for a holiday debut, ahead of At World’s End‘s $114m Fri-Sun opening. In terms of all “long weekend openings,” it’s behind the $200m Wed-Sun debut of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the $180m six-day openings for Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Spider-Man 2 (the latter in 2D way back in 2004), the $156m Fri-Mon debut of At World’s End, and the $156m Tuesday-to-Sunday debut of the original Transformers.  I may have missed one, but the list will change when the final Fri-Mon figures drop tomorrow anyway. The film played 62% male, 53% 25-years old and up, 52% Caucasian, 20% Hispanic, 15% African-American, and 14% Asian and “other.”

Oh, and since 20th Century Fox put out Deadpool in glorious 2D, we only have to use traditional inflationary measurements to compare-and-contrast. That means that Fox arguably left a little money on the table by not converting the film to 3D. The film earned around $27.4 million over the Fri-Mon frame (18%) in IMAX and about $19.5m (13%) in PLF auditoriums. That means the 2D release earned $46.9m (31%) in bigger/better auditoriums this weekend. Oh, and it earned another $150m overseas for what is now a crazy $300m opening weekend plus whatever it makes today. That’s about what X-Men: Days of Future Past‘s opened with over Memorial Day weekend 2014, which in turn means we could (emphasis on “could”) be looking at a $650-$700m worldwide total (no China and no 3D this time around).

'Deadpool' Box Office: It's A Record-Crushing $300 Million Worldwide Weekend Debut
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