Deadpool Is Officially Bigger Than Jesus

[RAMROD 100,061]

Deadpool & Wolverine to be exact. 

There’s a running, and much-repeated, joke early in this summer’s Deadpool & Wolverine, in which Ryan Reynolds’ comic book motormouth declares himself “Marvel Jesus”—a joke that’s now borne itself out pretty well, with the film serving as a savior for the Marvel Cinematic Universe after a year or two of pretty slump-y box office returns. Now, though, it sounds like Reynolds and co-star Hugh Jackman might be set to go the full Beatles, and become bigger than Jesus—in the sense that their movie is about to steal the title for “most successful R-rated movie in America” away from The Passion Of The Christ this weekend.

This is per Variety, which reports that Deadpool & Wolverine is set to demolish basically everything else at the box office this weekend, including M. Night Shyamalan and Josh Hartnett’s new thriller Trap. (Trap’s doing fine, for what it is, on track to make about $15 million—a better opening than 2023’s Knock At The Cabin—but nobody was harboring any delusions that Shyamalan’s movie was going to take a chunk out of Reynolds’ cash.) In fact, Deadpool & Wolverine probably beat the combined weekend totals of every other movie in American theaters this weekend on Friday alone, when it brought it $28.3 million. It’s expected to hit at least $94 million over the weekend, which not only marks a very good 55 percent second weekend drop, but which will also sail it past The Passion‘s $370 million domestic take. It’s already, just two weeks into release, the second biggest U.S. performer of 2024, and while it still has a long way to go to beat Inside Out 2—still likely to land at fifth place this week, two months after coming out—it’s got momentum on its side.

https://www.avclub.com/deadpool-wolverine-box-office-beats-jesus

[Easy 5,117]

Joker FAD will dethrone

[Economy 44,660]

Just curious are these numbers inflation adjusted? 20 years is a long time

[Didymus 33,364]

You ate with that thread title

[DesertWolf 40,141]

Oh can't wait for The Passion of The Christ sequel to break that record 

[palma 6,478]

4 minutes ago, DesertWolf said:

Oh can't wait for The Passion of The Christ sequel to break that record 

G.U.Y. (An ARTPOP Film) already exists 

 

[DesertWolf 40,141]

6 minutes ago, palma said:

G.U.Y. (An ARTPOP Film) already exists 

 

oh a cult movie for the gays, we need a more commercial version  mix it with 911, add some biblical stories like the Judas video and she's ready to take those Oscars. She better bring Bradley to play Mary and perform Shallow 2.0 with her 

[Sunny 12,292]

They're also both mediocre and overrated what who said that

[Anderson123 33,252]

23 minutes ago, DesertWolf said:

Oh can't wait for The Passion of The Christ sequel to break that record 

Passion of The Christ: The Second Coming of Jesus. 

 

[NATAH 36,109]

8 minutes ago, Sunny said:

They're also both mediocre and overrated what who said that

my sense of humour is pretty childish and even i couldn't sit through the Deadpool movies, felt like they were written by 14 year olds who just discovered Family Guy 

[RichAssPiss 4,237]

40 minutes ago, Economy said:

Just curious are these numbers inflation adjusted? 20 years is a long time

No. These are straight gross comparisons. No studio uses inflation adjusted figures for their PR headlines because it makes their releases look less impressive. 

[RAMROD 100,061]

36 minutes ago, Easy said:

Joker FAD will dethrone

Between this ($438M & $824M WW) and the first Joker movie ($247M & $55M WW), the stakes will be very high for the first and second week. Y'all better watch more than once at the cinema instead watching from muvee321 or whatever 

[Economy 44,660]

Just now, RichAssPiss said:

No. These are straight gross comparisons. No studio uses inflation adjusted figures for their PR headlines because it makes their releases look less impressive. 

Its apples to oranges then cuz $1 today is a very different value than $1 20 years ago. U might as well be comparings British Pounds to the Polish Sloty

 

But i get why they would want to conviniently ignore that

[RAMROD 100,061]

9 minutes ago, Economy said:

U might as well be comparings British Pounds to the Polish Sloty

 

 

That kinda maths just don't work for these stuffs

[elijahfan 24,152]

58 minutes ago, Economy said:

Just curious are these numbers inflation adjusted? 20 years is a long time

Of course they're not, that's how all these successful but ultimately forgettable films are dethroning legendary movies of the past.