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According to Variety, “no cuts were made that impact theintegrity of the storytelling and the film remains authentic to the Deadpool spirit.” While 2016’s Fox-made, R-rated Deadpool didn’t open in China, a version of its R-rated 2018 sequel, Deadpool 2, earned an additional $42.4 million at the China box office after Fox released the PG-13 Once Upon a Deadpool re-edit there in early 2019.
Marvel Studios confirmed Deadpool & Wolverine‘s China release with a poster shared on the Chinese social media platform Weibo.
In early 2023, it was announced that Chinese officials had ended the country’s three-year ban on imported Marvel movies. 2022’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever released there in early 2023, followed by Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and The Marvels. The Black Panther sequel was the first Marvel movie to reach China since Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: Far From Home in 2019; Marvel was shut out of the world’s second-largest movie market with 2021’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Eternals, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and 2022’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Thor: Love and Thunder.
Director Shawn Levy and stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, who reprise their respective roles as Wade Wilson/Deadpool and Logan/Wolverine, will appear in China to promote the movie on July 2nd. The Chinese release is a boon to Deadpool & Wolverine, which is already tracking for the biggest opening of the year with a projected $200 million-plus opening weekend at the domestic box office. (Those numbers were reported before Disney-Pixar’s Inside Out 2, which hit theaters over Father’s Day weekend, shattered expectations with the first $100 million-plus domestic opening since last summer’s Barbie and the second-best animated opening ever.)
Ticket seller Fandango previously reported that Deadpool & Wolverine broke its best first-day ticket sales record for 2024 after advance tickets went on sale May 21st. Theater chain AMC later reported that the Marvel movie racked up the most day-1 ticket sales for any R-rated movie ever, beating Deadpool, Deapdool 2, and Joker.
Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine opens exclusively in U.S. and Chinese theaters on July 26th.
