As its digital release draws inevitably closer,Deadpool & Wolverinehas earned one of the top 5 domestic hauls forMCU movies, moving pastThe Avengersin the process. With no end date to theMarvelsequel’s theatrical run yet confirmed, another huge box office milestone is less than $20m away.
According to thelatest box office data,Deadpool & Wolverinetook $3.8m this weekend to bring the total take to an astonishing $1,316,684,625. Performance is inevitably slowing, as Shawn Levy’s movie nears two months in theaters, but it still ranked in the weekend’s top 5, taking within $700k of new releaseNever Let Go.
What Deadpool & Wolverine’s Box Office Means For The MCU
Black Panther’s Box Office May Just Be In Reach
Overall,Deadpool & Wolverinehas now taken $627 million domestically and $689 million overseas, and it sits as the 7thhighest MCU movie box officetake behind only the Avengers movies,Spider-Man: No Way Home, andBlack Panther. Widely hailed as the “Marvel Jesus” of the MCU, as Ryan Reynolds' Wade Wilson promised, industry commentary suggestsDeadpool & Wolverinehas had a transformative effect on the franchise’s recent fortunes afterThe Marvels' failure.
Black Panther’s massive $1,334,157,082 box office take is now in sight, and ifDeadpool & Wolverinecontinues on its current trajectory, it may well surpass the 2018 release. Early projections said the sequel would have an upper limit of between $1.3-1.4bn, as long as it over-performed. That over-performance is now confirmed.
1
$400,000,000
$858,373,000
$2,748,242,781
2
$200,000,000
$814,811,535
$1,908,532,719
3
$700,059,566
$1,334,157,082
4
$300,000,000
$678,815,482
$2,048,359,754
5
$627,284,625
$1,316,684,625
6
$225,000,000
$623,357,910
$1,515,100,211
7
$365,000,000
$459,005,868
$1,395,316,979
8
$250,000,000
$453,829,060
$853,985,546
9
$175,000,000
$426,829,839
$1,129,576,094
10
$411,331,607
$952,224,986
The domestic haul of $627,284,625 takes it ahead of 2012’sThe Avengers($623,357,910) to enter the top 5 of the MCU’s home territory releases.Avengers: Infinity War’s $678m haul feels out of reach at this stage,but the performance has been incredible all the same.
Our Take On Deadpool & Wolverine’s Box Office Performance
While there’s not yet a digital release date - either for VOD or Disney+ - it’s not at all surprising that Marvel Studios are keepingDeadpool & Wolverinein theaters. $3.8m almost two months after release speaks to impressive longevity. Gone are the days ofE.T. the Extra-Terrestrialspending 16 weeks at number one (in multiple stints), particularly with digital releases coming quickly after initial release, sohaving long legs is an impressive feat.
The cumulative impact is also something that has to be considered too: whileDeadpool & Wolverine’s box office is no guarantee forCaptain America: Brave New World’s performance early in 2025, larger audiences imply greater brand strength as Marvel move towards the key multiverse projects ofAvengers: DoomsdayandSecret Wars. It surely won’t be long until we hear of the home release dates, but even then, Marvel would be foolish to takeDeadpool & Wolverineout of theaters for a while yet.
Deadpool & Wolverine
Cast
A follow-up to the highly successful Deadpool and Deadpool 2 films starring Ryan Reynolds as the Merc with a Mouth. The third film will be the first in the franchise to be developed under the Marvel Studios banner following Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox.
