All Box Office Records Broken

Check out Marvel Studios' box office activities Deadpool and Wolverine this past weekend:

Top R-Rated Opening of All Time Both Worldwide and Domestically: In $438.3M all over the world as well $205M for home. Deadpool and Wolverine beating the previous record holder Deadpool as of 2016 ($264M WW in like for like markets outside China, $132.4M domestic).

The Grand Opening of the entire world since Avatar The Path of Water ($439M in favor of similar markets at current prices).

The highest July opening weekend of all time at the domestic box office, passing King King ($191.8M).

Marvel Cinematic Universe in 34 titles and 30 billion it is the highest grossing film franchise of all time.

34^th consecutive MCU releases at #1 at the domestic box office.

The highest domestic opening weekend of 2024 and the highest since Dec. 2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home ($260.1M).

No. 8 the biggest domestic opening weekend of all time.

Number. Top 5 superhero opening weekend (after Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Avengers: Infinity War again The Avengers).

No. 2 is the highest opening weekend for a third installment of all time (back only Avengers: Endgame).

From this post, Walt Disney is responsible for 16 of the top 20 domestic opening weekends of all time – while the MCU is responsible for 11 of the top 20.

At $233.3M international, D&W is The highest opening weekend ever for a US R-rated release, passing The Joker ($147M) like-for-like at current prices.

The top opening weekend abroad since Avatar: The Path of Water, passing Inside Out 2 ($223M) like-for-like at current prices.

Top opening weekend of 2024 in Germany, UK, Australia and Japan (non-local) and many smaller markets.

So far this year, Walt Disney has released the No. 1 title. 1 of May (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes), June (Inside 2) and now in July (D&W).