What Record Did 'Deadpool' Break Now?
Ryan Reynolds and Tim Miller made it big after their film "Deadpool" breaks several box office records in just 10 days since its debut.
Despite its R-rating, "Deadpool" has become one of the most watched comic book-inspired movies of all time as it continues to break not one, but multiple records, during its first week alone.
At about $132.75 million total sales for the three-day weekend alone, the film about the "Merc with a Mouth" has most probably been the noisiest this year.
During its preview alone, the Reynolds-starrer flick has already begun wrecking records for the Largest February Thursday Preview with $12.7 million, defeating the $8.6 million sales from "Fifty Shades of Grey."
On opening day, "Deadpool" also pushed past the "Fifty Shades of Grey" $30.2 million ticket sales by earning about $47.5 million on that day alone.
It also earned the title of having the Largest February Opening Weekend sales with about $132.75 million earnings, beating the $85.1 million sales from the same novel-based movie.
On the four-day President's Day weekend, "Deadpool" has already earned a total of $150 million -- over $50 million more than "Fifty Shades of Grey's" $93 million.
"Deadpool" also garnered another title related to its classification as an R-Rated movie, with its $132.75 million estimated sales for the opening weekend. That is nearly $40 million more than "The Matrix Reloaded's" previous record, pegged at $91.7 million.
As if that is not enough, "Deadpool" has now been dubbed the highest grossing X-Men movie in North America with its $235 million domestic ticket sales, a couple million higher than that of "X-Men: The Last Stand," which earned $234 million and "Days of Future Past" with $233 million.
Not only that but a recent update on "Deadpool's" worldwide earnings came in, stating that the Feb. 12 movie premiere garnered a total of $491 million, making it the second highest grossing X-Men film after overtaking "The Last Stand."
For context's sake, the highest grossing X-Men film of all time is still "Days of Future Past," with an impressive $747 million haul in 2014.
Some might question the legitimacy of this record, considering that the "Merc with a Mouth" himself utterly declined to become a member of the mutant hero team, although the film does have two X-Men members in it.
With all this hype for just a single movie, one might be curious as to what it's all about. If you have not watched the film yet, fear not, for "Deadpool" is still showing in some theaters worldwide.
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