The two Deadpool movies earned a combined $1.568 billion worldwide on a combined budget of $168 million. It would eventually earn $324 million domestic (counting $6 million earned by a PG-13 version titled Once Upon a Deadpool) and $785 million worldwide (again, counting $44 million earned, including $24 million in China, by the PG-13 cut). With decent reviews and a strong hook as a vulgar, blood-soaked, R-rated romcom superhero lark (with 99% of its violence directed at the bad guys), the film was a singular sensation beyond just being an X-Men flick or being a Marvel Comics adaptation.ĭavid Leitch’s $110 million-budgeted Deadpool 2 opened with solid reviews and decent buzz in May of 2018 with a $128 million domestic debut.
It passed the cumes of Guardians of the Galaxy ($333 million domestic and $773 million worldwide), meaning it had earned, at the time, more than any non-Tony Stark MCU movie ever. Heck, the film earned $363 million domestic (from a $132 million Fri-Sun/$152 million Fri-Mon President’s Day launch) and $783 million worldwide, becoming (at the time) the biggest R-rated movie ever worldwide. While Tim Miller’s $58 million-budgeted Deadpool was technically a spin-off from the Fox X-Men franchise, with Reynolds reprising the role he first played in X-Men Origins: Wolverine seven years earlier, the film proved more popular than any X-Men movie. Marvel doesn’t need the character, but Disney could really use a hit from their Fox IP. At this point, Disney might want to just make a non-MCU Deadpool sequel. Some of the mystery is related to how Kevin Feige plans to include X-Men-related mutants into the MCU, and how Deadpool might fit in.
In it, Reynolds discusses that he has little idea when, if or how Deadpool 3 will happen. Since the print media tends to plan far in advance, the Total Film cover story already dropped. It was to be one of the big original flicks of the summer. The film, starring Ryan Reynolds as a random video game non-playable-character who becomes sentient, will now (hopefully) open on December 11.
Today was supposed to be the “two months-out” date for Free Guy, which was scheduled to open domestically on July 3.