Was worried what the audience appeal would be, since I'm a big fan of the Merc with a Mouth. Was afraid it would bomb at the box office and we wouldn't get anymore Deadpool. Apparently I should not have been...
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'Deadpool' Smashes Box Office Records On Way to $260 Million Worldwide Opening
by Brad Brevet
February 14, 2016
Blowing away even the most lofty of expectations, Deadpool decimated the Valentine's and President's Day weekend box office in record-breaking fashion with an estimated $135 million three-day weekend. As for its incoming competition, How to be Single performed mostly as expected while fifteen years proved too long to wait to release Zoolander 2.
Rewriting the box office record books, Deadpool broke Fifty Shades of Grey's previous February opening weekend record by nearly $45 million based on estimates and that's just the start. The largest opening for an R-rated film was previously $91.7 million, set by The Matrix Reloaded in 2003. That's been destroyed. The largest opening weekend for an R-rated comic book adaptation was previously set by 300 with $70.8 million. Bye, bye.
This is even the largest opening weekend ever for 20th Century Fox, beating a record of $108.4 million previously held by Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. Though, to be fair, Revenge of the Sith did open on a Thursday where it brought in $50 million so it's not a complete apples-to-apples comparison, but it does bring us to Deadpool's expected four-day run.
cont'd @ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4157&p=.htm
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