GoTG was a great BO story and easily topped expectations.
Deadpool shatters record with $47.5M opening day
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GoTG was a great BO story and easily topped expectations.
Bobby Roberts
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Yeah, if it opens at 130, Superhero Opening Weekends All-Time looks like this:
1) The Avengers - 207mil
2) Avengers: Age of Ultron - 191
3) Iron Man Three - 174
4) Dark Knight Rises - 160
5) The Dark Knight - 158
6) Spider-Man 3 - 151
7) Deadpool - 130
8) Iron Man 2 - 128
9) Man of Steel - 116
10) Spider-Man - 114
Highest Fox superhero opening
2nd highest licensed Marvel opening
1) The Avengers - 207mil
2) Avengers: Age of Ultron - 191
3) Iron Man Three - 174
4) Dark Knight Rises - 160
5) The Dark Knight - 158
6) Spider-Man 3 - 151
7) Deadpool - 130
8) Iron Man 2 - 128
9) Man of Steel - 116
10) Spider-Man - 114
Highest Fox superhero opening
2nd highest licensed Marvel opening
Not just that but the marketing has been average at best.
Just realized that Spider-Man will be pushed out of the top 10 once BvS is released. Still a beast at the BO.
Smokey_Run
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I'll just say at my theater, me and a friend arrived and 10 minutes later more friends arrived and it was sold out. When we got out of the movie and looked at the 10pm showing, it was already sold out with 45 minutes to go. Also, the line for the 10pm showing snaked around the theater and almost out the door. It was crazy.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Man of Steel's going out this year, too. Hell, Suicide Squad might shove out Iron Man 2, depending.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
I think AoU was a singular Joss Whedon style burnout. Buffy season 7, Angel season 4. Moments of great, mired by surrounding mediocrity. When he loses interest, it can be ugly.
I don't know how much it actually hurt the franchise. We will see, I could totally be off.
But Deadpool seeing this degree of success is mind-blowing to me.
Might as well give it to him, not like they're filming the Avatar movies any time soon.
Joss Whedon captained neither Buffy in Season 7 nor Angel in Season 4. His interest had very little to do with the day to day quality of either of those things.
Hell, with the exception of the episodes he wrote and directed, he was really only ever supervisory on Angel. That season had like 4 different showrunners in 5 years.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
He shoulda been Superman. But hey.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Hahhhaha!
Me and a couple of friends were just talking about that yesterday. Jon Hamm came up. I thought it was an inspired casting idea.
Were all those four day frames, though?
Discotheque
Banned
He has the comedy chops to keep up with Reynolds for sure. I would like this
Funnily enough afflecks Bruce Wayne gives me mad don draper vibes
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
Studios will get the memo that Nov-Dec, and April-August are not the only periods on the calendar where an opening weekend of $100M+ OW can be realized.
Pretty crazy, marketing has been A+ too.
Pretty crazy, marketing has been A+ too.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
I'd rather see Ron Perlman. After Hellboy, I think he's easily up for doing comedy in a Superhero film.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
No, those are all 3 day totals.
Deadpool's now being estimated to possibly hit 130 for the 3 day thanks to a 43mil Saturday.
More_Badass
Member
I've seen Rth mentioned in other threads as good source on box office numbers, and a post from a few hours ago said that Deadpool's Saturday numbers were ~$41-43M
Jesus, and I am expecting good numbers for tomorrow too
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Technically, this is Fox. The former two instances were with Marvel Studios.
Go watch Drive, Perlman is suffering from Kyphosis. I'm not really familiar with Cable, but from what I recall, he has the posture and physique of a young bodybuilder.
The One and Done
Member
Time to make some chimifuckingchangas
Lan Dong Mik
And why would I want them?
Haha damn this was so good! This shit got a big round of applause at the end. Last time that happened at a theatre I was in was Blair Witch Project lol. Word of mouth is going to make this movie so much more money than it already has. Happy for Ryan Reynolds finally getting a hit movie and one he campaigned hard for. Dude is definitely feeling vindicated right about now.
ElRenoRaven
Member
As he should. The guy has always been a good actor. Even with the awful Green Lantern movie he was the best part of it.
Holy shit.
Wait...how? Didn't it do 30-odd Friday? 43 on Sat still leaves a ton to go.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Thursday previews count for Friday's total.
47 Friday
43 Saturday
Lets say Valentine's bump nullifies the typical Sunday drop, and the film stays flat Sat-to-Sun:
47
43
43
133 mil Opening Weekend.
Even if the Valentines bump doesn't apply, it's still on track (should it make 43 today) for right around 130. It could end up, if Saturday is closer to 40 and there's no bump on Sunday, closer to 122-125, but that's still basically double the production budget in three days, and there's still a holiday Monday to go.
I rarely go to theaters for movies since most of them around me suck, their projectors and audio set ups suck. I made an exception for this one, I'm going to see it again.
I hope we get a proper UHD Blu-ray of this. I didn't buy a player yet because there's nothing I want to see badly enough yet. When this or Star Wars comes out on it, I'll buy a 4k player. Hopefully better ones will be available then too, maybe a Sony, Pioneer, or Oppo.
I hope we get a proper UHD Blu-ray of this. I didn't buy a player yet because there's nothing I want to see badly enough yet. When this or Star Wars comes out on it, I'll buy a 4k player. Hopefully better ones will be available then too, maybe a Sony, Pioneer, or Oppo.
Why does he has so less followers on twitter? I followed him anyway but seeing on his twitter account fuck yeah the amount of retweets he does people tweeting cable to him this must be done.
Wouldn't that depend on who's playing Wolverine by then? Sure as hell wouldn't be Jackman...
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Unless it is called Deadpool Kills Wolverine and it is Jackman's swan song.
I do hope Hugh will plunge in for a big cameo role in deadpool 2 but also play it one more time with if it happens X-Force.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
I could see a Deadpool/Wolverine film being Jackman's last hurrah for the character. He and Reynolds are close and he's already expressed interest in that kind of project.
Why would Deadpool kill Wolverine?
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Deadpool & Cable
X-Force
That's gonna be the progression, watch. Unless they just skip straight to X-Force.
But I'm betting once Apocalypse comes out, that mainline X-story gets sidelined for whatever's happening here now.
Succinct Verbosity
Member
Would be really interesting if Fox bring him into an X-Men film or keep it as its own separate thing.
I feel like they're retiring Wolverine period after the next Wolverine, but as others have mentioned, Jackman's friends with Reynolds, so I could see him coming in for that.
Also, on X-Force: Who's on that team? I'm not very familiar with comics, but I'm guessing in the film version there'd be Deadpool, Cable, Colossus, and Negasonic Teenage Warhead at least.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Rumored lineup would be Cable, Cannonball, Warpath, Domino, and Feral. Probably add Deadpool.
I know that adding Sunspot doesn't make any sense, but I wish they would, because the Cannonball/Sunspot team is just how I automatically think of those two.
I know that adding Sunspot doesn't make any sense, but I wish they would, because the Cannonball/Sunspot team is just how I automatically think of those two.
More_Badass
Member
Fox must be happy that they have a new perfectly cast character that can draw an audience much like Wolverine did. They better greenlight that X Force movie sooner than later once Hugh retires the character
Would be disappointed if Colossus and NTW didn't follow Deadpool to that. I really enjoyed their dynamic, and I think audiences have too. But then again, that might make it X-Force in name only.
I could also see Gambit being thrown in there if his film is well-received.
ratcliffja
Member
That's definitely the team I think of when it comes to X-Force. I used to love that book in the 90s.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
Deadline update:
A bit ironic too since Fox didn't want to make this movie for years.
I could see Hugh playing Wolverine one more time in a Dead Pool movie since him and Ryan are good friends.
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