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Box Office Milestone: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Crosses $1B Globally on Way to Becoming Top R-Rated Pic of All Time
Deadpool & Wolverine stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, along with director Shawn Levy, have received their membership cards to the billion-dollar box office club. Marvel Studios and Disney’s summer blockbuster achieved the feat on Saturday, and will finish the weekend with an estimated $1.029 billion in global ticket sales, including $494.3 million domestically and […]
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Lively-Reynolds Box Office Domination: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Stays No. 1 With $54M, ‘It Ends With Us’ Soars to Huge $50M
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have succeeded in creating their own Barbenheimer moment at the box office with their two very different films, Deadpool & Wolverine and It Ends With Us. Marvel Studios and Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine — in addition to crossing the $1 billion mark at the global box office on Saturday — […]
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Ryan Reynolds-Blake Lively Box Office Apocalypse: ‘It Ends With Us’ Beats ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ on Friday
It’s a happy morning at the Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds household no matter which way you slice and dice it, with separate movies from the couple providing their very own Barbenheimer movement. Sony’s new female-powered It Ends With Us, starring and produced by Lively, topped reigning champ Deadpool & Wolverine on Friday with a […]
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Lively-Reynolds Box Office Apocalypse: ‘It Ends With Us’ Takes on ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ With Huge $7M in Previews
Wife-and-husband duo Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are creating their own Barbenheimer moment at the box office as Lively’s new movie It Ends With Us goes up against Reynolds’ blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine. Sony’s female-fueled It Ends With Us earned a huge $7 million in Thursday previews, confirming speculation that the film would do much […]
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Paramount’s Chris Aronson to Receive Career Achievement Award from Children’s Charity
Variety the Children’s Charity of Southern California has tapped veteran Hollywood studio distribution chief Chris Aronson to receive the org’s inaugural Career Achievement Award. The tribute recognizes his work in supporting and championing children, youth, adults and families in need. Aronson currently serves as president of domestic distribution for Paramount Pictures. He did a long […]
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Box Office Preview: Can Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively Pull Off Barbenheimer 2.0?
The last time a married couple had their films top the domestic box office was 34 years ago. In 1990, Bruce Willis’ Die Hard 2 stayed atop the chart in its second weekend with $14.5 million, and Demi Moore’s Ghost opened in second place with $12.2 million, not adjusted for inflation. Get ready to dust […]
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How the Summer Box Office Went From Tragic to Magic
An exhausted Ryan Reynolds was overwhelmed when the opening-day grosses started pouring in on July 26 for Deadpool & Wolverine, the third entry in his audacious superhero series. By July 27, the impossible was within reach: The Marvel Studios pic was going to cross $200 million in its domestic debut, something no one thought possible […]
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‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Box Office: All the Records Broken (So Far)
Ryan Reynolds is infamous for lacing his Deadpool movies with industry jokes. In the 2018 sequel, the irreverent antihero ponders whether his movies will ever be able to pass up the $370.8 million collected by Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ in North America and become the biggest R-rated film of all time, not […]
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Box Office: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Zooms to $97M Record-Making Second Weekend, Hits $824M Globally
Deadpool really is Marvel’s Jesus, as the antihero like to call himself. Deadpool & Wolverine continued make box office history and obliterate more records in its sophomore outing, zooming to a better-than-expected $97 million domestically — the eighth biggest second weekend of all time and the fifth biggest for an MCU title — for a […]
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How Great Movies Get Made at Columbia: A Directors’ Tell-All
Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Ang Lee was pulling his hair out. He was in preproduction in China on his ambitious martial arts movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon when a silent investor pulled out. “It was the toughest movie I’d ever tried to make,” recalls Lee, who thought it was all over. But […]
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How Columbia Pictures Kept Its Cool for a Century
On a recent July afternoon, the ever-mercurial Tom Rothman arrives in good spirits for a tour of Columbia Pictures’ archives in honor of the studio’s 100th anniversary. “Ask a lot of questions, because after this, I must go back to work,” says Rothman, Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group chairman. “This is way more fun than […]
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Box Office: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Lands 6th Biggest Opening of All Time With $211M, Makes R-Rated History
The Merc with the Mouth is back on the big screen — and he’s a marvel. Directed by Shawn Levy in close collaboration with franchise mastermind and star Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool & Wolverine opened to a record-shattering $211 million at the domestic box office, landing the sixth-biggest opening of all time for any film and […]
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