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Deadpool Stays on Top

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Deadpool-poster-2Deadpool remained on the top of the box office dropping 58.5% from its opening weekend. The film earned $55 million in its second weekend. That brings the film to a domestic total of $235.4 million and the film earned $256.5 million in foreign markets for a worldwide total of $491.9 million.

In second place was Kung Fu Panda 3 which earned $12.5 million in its fourth week.

Risen is a new film and earned $11.8 million to come in third and The Witch earned $8.7 million to come in fourth. How to Be Single rounded out the top five and earned $8.2 million.

In other new films, Race earned $7.3 million to come in sixth; The Mermaid earned $1.02 million for sixteenth; Busco Novio Para Mi Mujer earned $900,000 for eighteenth; Neerja earned $585,315 to come in 23rd; Embrace the Serpent earned $50,165; and City of Women earned $7,008 for 47th.

Back to Deadpool, the film has now returned the most compared to its budget for a R rated film based on a comic book. The film has earned 8.48 times its budget so far beating the previous record of of 300 which returned 7.02 on its budget.

Deadpool is now the top at the domestic box office when it comes to X-Men related films. It passed X-Men: The Last Stand this weekend. That film earned $234.3 million. But, the film isn’t top overall. When adjusted for ticket price, the film still sits in fifth with The Last Stand in first. Also, worldwide, the film sits in second sitting behind X-Men: Days of Future Past which earned $747.9 million in its 2014 run.

Deadpool Smashes Records with $260 million Debut

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deadpool posterDeadpool destroyed the competition, as well as a hell of a lot of bad guys, as it debuted to an estimated $135.1 million three day domestic weekend and around $150 to $156 million four day weekend. The film is now the most an R-rated film has debuted as well as a February film. This is also the highest opening for a 20th Century Fox film, the previous being Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. The film has the record of largest single day in February, in fact all of its days beat the previous record.

The film also earned $125 million in international markets. The film scored the largest industry opening in Russia with $12.4 million as well as the largest Fox opening in 13 other markets including Australia ($10 million); Taiwan ($8.25 million); Brazil ($5.9 million); Hong Kong ($3.8 million); and Malaysia ($2.9 million).

The international amount and domestic puts the film at about $260 million for its first weekend, pretty impressive with a budget of about $58 million. We’ll see what lessons Hollywood learns from this. Maybe we’ll see more R-rated superhero films, but most likely the wrong lessons will be taken away.

In other debuts, How to Be Single came in third with $18.75 million; Zoolander 2 earned $15.65 million for fourth; Where to Invade Next was 18th with $1.03 million; and a few others were in the tens of thousands.

In other movie news Kung Fu Panda 3 dropped to second and earned $19.65 million to bring its domestic total to $93.9 million. The Revenant came in fifth and earned $6.9 million to have a domestic total of $159.2 million. Hail, Caeser! was in sixth and added $6.59 million to its total. Finally, Star Wars: The Force Awakens dropped out of the top five to come in seventh after nine weeks. The film earned $6.19 million to bring its domestic total to $914.8 million and worldwide gross to $2.03 billion. It sits in third for worldwide frosses of all time.