Superhero fatigue? Yeah, right.
Sure, superhero movies haven’t been quite as indestructible lately, as we’ve come to expect. But Deadpool & Wolverine—featuring two heroes known to be nigh-indestructible themselves—proved that people will still rush to the theaters if there’s a superhero movie they want to see. (Even if it’s rated R.)
And boy, did they rush.
Deadpool & Wolverine stuffed an estimated $205 million into its supersuit—the biggest opening in North America since 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home. Indeed, it’s the eighth highest domestic opening weekend of all time, and the most lucrative opening ever for an R-rated movie. (It broke a slew of other records, too, but let’s face it: We just don’t have that kind of time to detail them all.)
In just one weekend, it has already earned enough moola to rank as the year’s fourth-biggest movie—and you know that it has the other three (Inside Out 2, Despicable Me 4 and Dune: Part Two) in its superhero sights.
Deadpool & Wolverine performed just as well overseas, too—banking $233.3 million in international markets to bring its worldwide gross to a truly titanic $438.3 million.
While Deadpool & Wolverine was by far the weekend’s biggest film, a few other movies managed to make a little money, too.
Twisters proved to be the best (or at least biggest) of the rest. Last week’s champ slipped to second, but it still banked another $35.3 million, pushing its own domestic tally to $154.9 million.
Despicable Me 4 finished in bronze medal position, gathering up $14.2 million. Its domestic total now stands at just under $291 million—making it, for now, the year’s second-biggest film—while worldwide it has collected $677.7 million.
Inside Out 2 spent its seventh-straight weekend in the top five, this time finishing fourth with $8.3 million. That makes 2024’s biggest movie even bigger: It has now earned $613.4 million in North America—a figure that even Deadpool & Wolverine may struggle to best. Add in its overseas earnings, and Inside Out 2 has squirrelled away a total of $1.5 billion. No need to be anxious about that.
The horror flick Longlegs has proved to have some fiscal long legs of its own. It finished fifth with $6.8 million, pushing its own overall tally to $58.6 million. And newcomer The Fabulous Four came in at No. 8 with just over $1 million in earnings.
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I went to see Twisters. For an Oklahoman it was both scary because of the tornadoes but also had so many ridiculously funny moments. They seemed to care about getting a number of little things right, like the older license plate in the flashback scene versus the one we have now, tornado siren sounds, landscape, etc. The characters actually look out for each other so even though the plot is about daredevils who chase tornadoes, you still root for them since they’re heroic. I am glad I took Plugged In’s advice to watch it in the theater because the big screen made it very spectacular and scary (but I promise I wasn’t gripping the armrests by the end!)
I’m ecstatic that Inside Out 2 crossed $1.5 billion. What a beautiful movie.