‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Reverses Marvel’s Box Office Slump

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Marvel Studios, trying to move past a pair of box office humiliations, deployed two of its most popular characters over the weekend and hit a mother lode. The potty-mouthed Deadpool and hard-drinking Wolverine — packaged together for the first time on movie screens — were on pace to sell roughly $205 million in tickets in the United States and Canada, box office analysts said on Saturday. “Deadpool & Wolverine” will easily set a record for the largest R-rated movie opening in Hollywood history, even when adjusting for inflation. The current record-holder, “Deadpool” (2016), arrived to more than $175 million in today’s dollars. “Deadpool & Wolverine” was expected to collect an additional $233 million overseas, for a global total after only three and a half days of play of roughly $438 million — a start on par with Marvel’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” (2022), which went on to sell about $1 billion in tickets. Directed by Shawn Levy, “Deadpool & Wolverine” cost an estimated $320 million to make and market worldwide.