EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios/Disney‘s Deadpool & Wolverine finally opens this weekend, not only further rebounding the post-strike box office to a healthy place, but also revitalizing the MCU’s brilliance. It was only last November that the studio fell on hard times with its lowest opening ever in The Marvels at $46.1M U.S./$110M worldwide. The current range
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Marvel and Disney‘s Deadpool & Wolverine is at last unfurling in cinemas, reuniting on-screen and off-screen BFFs Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds, the latter of which is the mastermind behind the irreverent series. Fellow BFF Shawn Levy directed. In addition to North America, the movie is also opening around the globe and is expected to
NRG, Screen Engine and other three-week-in-advance box office tracking services are reporting a domestic box office opening for Disney/Marvel Studios‘ first R-rated movie, Deadpool & Wolverine, at $160 million-$165 million, which would not only be the best opening year-to-date but also a record start for a R-rated movie. The first Deadpool released in 2016 owns
China’s Film Bureau has approved a July 26 release for Disney/Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine, arguably one of the most anticipated movies of the year globally. Marvel’s Weibo account announced the dating this morning Beijing time which Disney has confirmed. The release is day-and-date with the U.S. and marks the first time the Merc with
EXCLUSIVE: Disney/Marvel Studios‘ Deadpool & Wolverine hit six week tracking this morning and, man, does it look amazing. The Quorum, which actually monitors pics six weeks ahead, is reporting a projection of $200M-$239M, which the service actually believes is conservative. Let’s give this an asterisk: There has never been an R-rated movie before that has
Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the advertisement for a movie’s longevity in subsequent home entertainment windows. Entering
Fanboys will have to wait until San Diego Comic Con to see footage from Marvel Studios‘ 2025 release Captain America: Brave New World, but exhibitors do not. On Thursday during Disney‘s closing CinemaCon session, the studio showed off the new Anthony Mackie movie that picks up after the events of the 2021 Disney+ series The
Marvel Studios‘ Deadpool & Wolverine trailer, 24 hours after airing during the Super Bowl, was seen by 365 million online, making it the most viewed trailer of all time. This beats the 24-hour viewership total for Sony/Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: No Way Home, which was seen by 255M. Shawn Levy directs Deadpool & Wolverine, which see
EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios‘ sequel, The Marvels, has clocked around $6.5M in Thursday night previews we hear from sources. Disney will be reporting their official figure this morning and we’ll update you then. Previews began at 3PM. The fear out there by many is that this $200M budgeted sequel to 2019’s Captain Marvel –which stands as
Here’s something we don’t see often: Opening projections plummeting for a Marvel Studios movie. Their latest sequel to 2019’s Captain Marvel, The Marvels, which is also an extension to Disney+ series WandaVision and Ms. Marvel, has seen its weekend forecast collapse from $75M-$80M three weeks ago to around $60M stateside. Some tracking services, such as
EXCLUSIVE: In one of the first major blows to the 2024 theatrical release schedule due to the ongoing actors strike, sources tell us that Marvel Studios‘ Deadpool 3 won’t be making its May 3 start-of-summer theatrical release date. Even if the strike ends in the next few weeks, a 2024 restart on the half-finished Deadpool
Talk about respecting a theatrical window: Disney has set a Disney+ global premiere date for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 of Aug. 2, that’s 90 days after the pic’s theatrical release of May 5. While Disney got a lot of slack during CEO Bob Chapek’s era for executing theatrical day-and-date releases on Disney+ during
Filmmaker James Gunn’s Marvel Studios swan song, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, is blasting off this weekend, the de facto start of the summer box office, with an eye at $250M worldwide. Of that $110M is coming from domestic, and $140M from overseas. Wrinkling some box office sources brows is how the threequel’s start
Disney/Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 landed on tracking today before its summer season launch date of Friday, May 5 and it’s looking like a $130M domestic start. That’s lower than the $146.5M stateside opening of Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2, which also kicked off summer in 2017, and distribution sources specify
Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament took a hiatus during the pandemic as movie theaters closed for the majority of 2020-2021 and theatrical day-and-date titles on both the big screen and studios’ respective streaming platforms became more prevalent. Coming back from that brink, the studios have largely returned to their theatrical release models and the downstream
MONDAY AM: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania wound up hitting its $120M tracking projection from four weeks ago. Disney believes this AM that the Peyton Reed Marvel Studios movie will get there. Sunday was higher at $25.7M than the expected $24.2M and Monday is on track for $14.5M for a $120M result. 3-day revised is
“As we’re nearing the end of Phase 4, I think people will start to see where this next saga is going,” Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige recently told Total Film. “I think there have been many clues already, that are at least apparent to me, of where this whole saga is going. But we’ll be
For the second time in less than three months, James Cameron has taken to Twitter to congratulate Marvel Studios and its Avengers: Endgame on advancing past one of his own massive record holders. Back in May, Cameron saluted the MCU series-ender for sailing past Titanic as the No. 2 movie ever at the global and