Every box office record broken by a Marvel film

To date (at the time of writing this article) Deadpool and Wolverine opened with a whopping $211.4 million domestically and $444.6 million overseas on the first weekend before continuing $1.216 billion worldwide – $581.1 million domestically and $634.8 million internationally in the first month. But do you know how many Records that Deadpool & Wolverine breaks? If not, read the full list of the film’s achievements below, because it might surprise you!

All the box office records that Deadpool and Wolverine have broken

• Largest global opening since Avatar: The Way of Water – with a worldwide opening of 439 million US dollars, Deadpool and Wolverine falls just behind Avatar2‘s worldwide opening is $441.7 million.
• Biggest movie opening ever for Ryan Reynolds – Reynolds is a big star, but his biggest movie opening to date was the original film Dead Poolwhich grossed $132.4 million domestically. Deadpool 2 would fall short of the original, opening with $125.5 million in 2018.
• Hugh Jackman’s biggest domestic opening of all time – Jackman’s biggest opening to date was also a X-Men Film: X-Men: The Last Stand It grossed $102.7 million on its opening weekend in 2006.
• Biggest national debut ever for Shawn Levy – Levy’s previous debut was Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonianthe second film in the series, which grossed $54.1 million in 2009.
• Highest domestic opening weekend in July ever – Deadpool and Wolverine has eliminated its Disney competition by surpassing the opening of Disney’s live-action version of The Lion King ($191.8 million) in 2019.
• Highest sales X-Men The best film at the domestic box office – X-Men: The Last Stand grossed $234.3 million domestically, Deadpool and Wolverine Over $500 million in domestic gross profits means a significant jump in profits. The “Marvel Cinematic Universe” label makes a difference…
• Deadpool and Wolverine has officially made the Marvel Cinematic Universe the highest-grossing film franchise of all time, grossing $30 billion across 34 releases. It is also the 34th consecutive MCU film to debut at #1 at the domestic box office.
• The best domestic opening weekend of 2024 (so far). The best domestic opening weekend since Spider-Man: No Way Home opened in December 2021 with $260.1 million.
• Deadpool and Wolverine is now the sixth highest opening weekend film of all time domestically. It is the sixth highest opening day at the domestic box office, grossing $96 million on its first day.
• Fourth highest superhero opening weekend of all time (after Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: No Way Home and Avengers: Infinity War).
• Second best opening weekend for a third part ever.
• Disney films currently hold 16 of the top 20 domestic opening weekends of all time; the MCU holds 11 spots in the same top 20. Disney also has five of the top six domestic opening weekends of all time.
• Highest opening weekend ever for an R-rated release in the U.S. with $233.1 million internationally, surpassing joker (147 million USD) in 2019.
• Highest international opening weekend since Avatar: The Way of Waterand exceeds Inside Out 2 ($223 million). Top opening weekend of 2024 in Germany, the UK, Australia and Japan (not local), as well as many smaller markets.
• Biggest R-rated movie at the domestic box office on Monday with $24.4 million.
• Biggest R-rated movie at the domestic box office on Tuesday with $25.3 million.

Deadpool and Wolverine is still in theaters and continues to break records.

Source: Deadline