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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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Shawn Levy Says Henry Cavill Was “Sick to His Stomach” After Smoking Cigars for ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Cameo
[This story contains spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine.] Henry Cavill was committed to his cameo in Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine, so much so that he even got sick after smoking cigars for the role, according to director Shawn Levy. The filmmaker recently chatted with The New York Times, where he revealed that the Man of […]
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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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Oscars: Inside the Search for a Host
Jimmy Kimmel, the host of the two most recent Academy Awards ceremonies and two others before them (2017 and 2018), and John Mulaney, the host of the most recent Academy Governors Awards ceremony, have withdrawn themselves from consideration for the job of emceeing the 97th Oscars on March 2, 2025. That, of course, begs the […]
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Hugh Jackman Details Reuniting With Ke Huy Quan 24 Years After Working Together on ‘X-Men’
Hugh Jackman shared a sweet story about his reunion with Ke Huy Quan 24 years after the two worked together on X-Men, which introduced Jackman’s Wolverine. The actor posted a photo of him and Quan at Kevin Feige’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony with a voiceover, recounting what it was like for the two […]
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‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Has 116 F-Bombs: Here Are Movies With Even More
When Deadpool & Wolverine lands on Disney+, it will almost certainly set a record for the most f-bombs for a movie on the family-friendly streaming service (definitely blowing past That Darn Cat and Cheaper by the Dozen). Reportedly, Deadpool & Wolverine has 118 uses of the f-word during its two-hour and seven-minute runtime (with a […]
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Ryan Reynolds’ Best Movies, Ranked
Ryan Reynolds has remained one of Hollywood’s most popular actors for nearly 20 years. He’s developed a likable public persona, become a master marketer and entrepreneur, made close friends with the kind of Hollywood talent many people would sell a necessary organ for — and he’s married to Blake Lively. Yet, that popularity often comes […]
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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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Ryan Reynolds on Stunning ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Box Office: I Think It’s “the First Four-Quadrant, R-Rated Film”
It wasn’t until about 10 a.m. PT on Saturday that Disney’s distribution team realized the near-impossible was within reach: Deadpool & Wolverine was going to cross the $200 million mark in its domestic opening, an unimaginable feat for an R-rated pic. Case in point: the biggest R-rated opening until now was the $133.7 million collected […]
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Box Office: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Heads For Record-Smashing $195M-$205M Opening After Massive $96M Friday
The Merc with the Mouth is back in a big way. Director Shawn Levy’s threequel Deadpool & Wolverine delivered up a massive $96 million on Friday at the domestic box office, the sixth-biggest opening day of all time after edging out the final Harry Potter pic ($91.1 million), not adjusted for inflation. The Ryan Reynolds […]
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All the X-Men Franchise Movies, Ranked
For 20 years, 20th Century Fox’s X-Men films and associated spinoffs built up a world that could stand separately from the MCU and DCEU. While the results were not always what audiences, filmmakers or even the actors desired, there was a certain underdog quality to the X-franchise. Just when it seemed like Wolverine had popped […]
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