Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in Deadpool & Wolverine.
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Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman’s blockbuster film Deadpool & Wolverine has officially ended its theatrical run. How did it perform overall at the box office?
Rated R, Deadpool & Wolverine opened in theaters on July 26, pulling in a record $211 million in its Friday-Sunday debut. The film marks the first appearance of two former 20th Century Fox Marvel characters in Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Also, through a host of cameo appearances, several other Fox Marvel characters have appeared in Deadpool & Wolverine under director Shawn Levy.
As noted in The Numbers’ weekly theatrical roundup, Deadpool & Wolverine’s theatrical run officially ended on Thursday.
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Per The Numbers, Deadpool & Wolverine grossed $3,117 from 100 North American locations for a final domestic tally of $636,745,858.
Combined with the film’s $701,046,064 in international ticket sales, Deadpool & Wolverine grossed $1,337,791,922, The Numbers noted, against a production budget of $200 million before print and advertising.
“Deadpool & Wolverine” is currently the second-highest-grossing film of 2024
Although Deadpool & Wolverine has generated more than $1.3 billion in worldwide box office revenue, it is not the highest-grossing film of 2024.
Instead, Disney’s animated feature film Inside Out 2 is the No. 1 film of 2024 so far, earning nearly $653 million domestically and $1.043 billion internationally for a global box office total of $1.696 billion worldwide. World against a production budget of $200 million before P&A.
Following Inside Out 2, Deadpool & Wolverine will soon settle into streaming VOD on Disney+ following releases on physical and digital streaming media (4K, Blu-ray, and DVD).
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Although both releases are sitting comfortably in the home entertainment market, that doesn’t mean Inside Out 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine won’t return to theaters at some point to boost their already big box office numbers.
That’s because awards season has begun, and Inside Out 2 is poised to receive a raft of Best Animated Feature Film nominations from critics and industry organizations including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
After all, the first 2015 film Inside Out won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2015.
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As such, Oscar-winning films tend to be re-released in theaters to capitalize on their awards success so that audiences can get a chance to see them the way they were originally intended.
While Disney will certainly be putting its awards season muscle behind Inside Out 2, the studio is also pushing Deadpool & Wolverine on the awards circuit — specifically for a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Hugh Jackman.
Depending on how the film performs during awards season, it makes perfect sense for Deadpool & Wolverine to return to theaters if it has any success at the Oscars or other major film award ceremonies.
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