Deadpool & Wolverine: Every Box Office Record Broken by the Marvel Movie

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To date (at the time of writing this), Deadpool & Wolverine opened to a whopping $211.4M domestically and $444.6M internationally in its first weekend, before going on to earn $1.216 billion worldwide – $581.1M domestically, and $634.8M internationally in its first month. But do you know just how many records Deadpool & Wolverine is running through? If not, read below for the full list of the film’s accomplishments, because it may just surprise you!

Every Box Office Record Deadpool & Wolverine Has Broken

Biggest Global Opening since Avatar: The Way of Water – with its $439M global opening, Deadpool & Wolverine falls just behind Avatar 2‘s $441.7M global opening.
Biggest Domestic Opening Ever for Ryan Reynolds – Reynolds is a big celebrity, but his previous biggest opening for a film was the original Deadpool, which earned $132.4M domestically. Deadpool 2 would fall short of the original, opening at $125.5M in 2018.
Biggest Domestic Opening Ever for Hugh Jackman – Jackman’s previous biggest opening was also an X-Men film: X-Men: The Last Stand earned $102.7M in its opening weekend, back in 2006.
Biggest Domestic Opening Ever for Shawn Levy – Levy’s previous debut was Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, the second film of that series, which opened at $54.1M in 2009.
Highest Domestic July opening weekend of all-time – Deadpool & Wolverine killed its Disney competition by surpassing the opening of Disney’s live-action version of The Lion King ($191.8M) back in 2019.
Highest Grossing X-Men Movie Ever at the Domestic Box Office – X-Men: The Last Stand brought in $234.3M domestically, making Deadpool & Wolverine’s $500M+ domestic gross a significant jump in profits. That Marvel Cinematic Universe label makes a difference…
Deadpool & Wolverine has officially made the Marvel Cinematic Universe the highest-grossing film franchise of all time, earning $30 billion over 34 releases. It’s also the 34th consecutive MCU release to debut at No. 1 at the domestic box office.
The highest domestic opening weekend of 2024 (so far). The highest domestic opening since Spider-Man: No Way Home opened to $260.1M in December of 2021.
Deadpool & Wolverine is now in sixth place for films with the highest domestic opening weekend of all time. It marks the sixth sixth-highest opening day at the Domestic Box Office, having earned $96M in its first day.
Fourth highest superhero opening weekend of all time (following Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Avengers: Infinity War).
Second-highest opening weekend for a third installment of all time.
Disney films now occupy 16 of the top 20 slots for opening domestic weekends of all time; the MCU holds 11 places in that same top 20. Disney also has five of the top six opening weekends of all-time at the domestic box office.
Highest opening weekend ever for an R-rated release in the US, with $233.1M internationally, surpassing Joker ($147M) in 2019.
Highest international opening weekend since Avatar: The Way of Water, surpassing Inside Out 2 ($223M). Highest opening weekend of 2024 in Germany, UK, Australia and Japan (non-local) as well as many smaller markets.
Biggest R-Rated Monday at Domestic box office with $24.4M.
Biggest R-Rated Tuesday at Domestic box office with $25.3M.