‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Slashes R-Rated Wednesday U.S. Box Office Record; Global Crossing $600M+ Today

Another day, another day of broken box office records for Marvel Studios/Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine. On Wednesday, the Shawn Levy-directed movie broke the record for a R-rated movie, making $19.3M. That’s miles ahead of the previous top-grossing R-rated Wednesday, Joker, which made $9.6M on Oct. 9, 2019.

The domestic total stands at $280.4M. As we told you by Sunday, Deadpool & Wolverine is bound to pass The Passion of Christ ($370.7M) as the highest grossing R-rated movie ever with a running cume of $380M by EOD Sunday.

The Merc with the Mouth and Wolvie raked in $25.4M at the foreign box office, global of $44.7M yesterday taking their international take to $310.1M and worldwide to $590.5M. That amount of global cash puts Deadpool & Wolverine as the fourth highest move of 2024 to date after eight days of release, outstripping the cumes of DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s Kung Fu Panda 4 ($546M) and Legendary/Warner Bros’ Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire ($568M).

Current top territories for Deadpool & Wolverine by running cumes are China ($33.2M), UK ($30.2M), Mexico ($25M), Australia ($16.3M), Brazil ($12.8M), France ($12.4M), Germany ($12.4M), India ($12.2M), Spain ($10.7M), Italy ($10.3M), Korea ($10M) and Argentina ($7.1M).

At the U.S./Canada box office this weekend, the expectation is that Deadpool & Wolverine will ease -60% for a $84M+ second weekend, but it wouldn’t be out of the question given the pic’s momentum if it makes $100M+.