DEADPOOL WEEKEND THREAD | Deadpool 152.193 actual. Daily breakdown on page 159

[kayumanggi]

Not unlike Disney/Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Fox's phenomenal (and consistently viral) Deadpool ad campaign over the last few months has turned a largely unknown character (outside of fans) into an instant mega success. Despite no serious built-in franchise event-level appeal, plus its R rating, the film's first day stands as the 24th highest in history. It even surpassed Guardians itself ($37.9 million opening day), and every Marvel movie -- from any studio -- not named Avengers, Spider-Man, or Iron Man. Those franchises (five films between them) plus the final two Dark Knight films stand as the only "comic book" adaptations to claim higher opening days than Deadpool. In other words, and in a fantastic moment of irony, it topped the openings days of every X-Men film (The Last Stand's $45.1 million being the highest).

[Napoleon]

16 minutes ago, Blankments said:

Deadpool had a bigger opening day than fucking Man of Steel

 

*not counting Wal-Mart

How convenient 

[grey ghost]

What makes Zoolander's numbers even sadder is that half of it's OW is probably from teenagers sneaking into Deadpool.

[Blankments]

I actually contributed to the Walmart gross lol

[grey ghost]

2 hours ago, The Futurist said:

Deadpool 2 will drop by 60%.

 

No more Green Lantern jokes, no more X men Jokes, no more meta Jokes about Reynolds' career.

 

It was fun while it lasted.

 

 

20-30% drop is normal for the sequels to break outs.

 

60% drop? No flippin way.

[The Panda]

2 hours ago, DMan7 said:

 

Lets pretend instead of it having an R rating it has a PG13 rating instead. The movie remains the same way it is, nothing changes but the rating alone. This would mean the movie can be viewed by a larger audience automatically.

 

This is an incredibly pointless question, because it's an impossible hypothetical.  The movie is an R-Rated film, no ifs or buts and couldn't be the same thing if it wasn't.

[grey ghost]

Even if you don't like Deadpool, studios realizing that you can keep an R rating and make more money than a castrated PG-13 version is a win for anyone over 16 yo.

[water]

i remembered deadpool was coming out this weekend so i casually checked bom to see the friday number and.........

 

!?!?!?!?!?!?!!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?

[filmlover]

9 minutes ago, grey ghost said:

What makes Zoolander's numbers even sadder is that half of it's OW is probably from teenagers sneaking into Deadpool.

LOL probably. Not a Sin City 2-level fail but a pretty big all around fail nonetheless.

[grey ghost]

2 hours ago, department store basement said:

 

I don't think Deadpool will be the biggest CBM of the year - that will go to BvS or SS, whatever breaks out the most.

 

I'm not even sure Civil War will reach 300m domestic.

 

Civil War would need a sub-130 m OW to miss 300 m.

 

Not happening with Spider-man, Black Panther and half the Avengers co-starring.

[FilmBuff]

Geezus, that number is shocking. Can't freaking believe it.

[kayumanggi]

Deadpool is not popular.

Deadpool is a terrible character.

Deadpool is annoying.

February is a terrible release date.

Ryan Reynolds doesn't fit the role.

 

Bam! 130 M opening weekend! lol

 

[grim22]

That's a higher OD compared to Mockingjay part 2 which was the end of a mega franchise. Bigger OW than most Superhero movies incoming (depends on Saturday hold). Fox marketing seemed to do the trick, convinced people to watch it asap.

[baumer]

1 hour ago, Ethan Hunt said:

Does anyone even know his name? 

 

Yep his name is "some overpaid asshole" lol

[OncomingStorm93]

Regarding the Deadpool PG-13/R box office potential... Much of the appeal of the film is how it's blatantly hard R. If it was PG-13, sure you open up the potential audience, but you sacrifice the movie's core appeal, which I think in the case of Deadpool would hurt the film in the box office.

[grey ghost]

2 hours ago, kayumanggi said:

Woah. Fox has had only TWO 100 M openers ever and this could be their biggest to date.

 

And Fox used to own Star Wars. 

[eddyxx]

1 hour ago, Hatebox said:

 

I had to look him up. Looks like this is his debut feature (talk about hitting the ground running) but as an animator he also designed the Thor 2 opening credits..?

 

 

 

 

Yeah the opening of Thor 2 with the battle is like 90 percent all CGI.

[eddyxx]

1 hour ago, department store basement said:

Aaaaand at the bottom of sfran43's chart is Spectre, which is only making 8000 per day. The theaters should pull it. It won't make it to 200m.

 

I can't believe I saw a commercial this morning advertising the blu ray. These release windows are getting shorter and shorter.

[water]

i feel like we're entering/have entered a new golden age of movie-going where attendance is going to be higher across the board

[Jandrew]

DP is saving the February box office. This month was starting to look like another dud. And we thought Spongebobs $55M, Shades $85, and Legos $67 were undoable...