Comic book nerds are pinching themselves to make sure this isn't all a dream as executives at Fox realized they've stumbled across the gold mine that is Deadpool. Star Ryan Reynolds and director Tim Miller’s decade long fight to get Deadpool made paid off in a big way as the movie opened huge and shattered numerous records. Bringing in $132.7 million in North America for the three-day weekend and an estimated $150 million for the 4-day weekend, Deadpool also scored oversees with a worldwide weekend gross of around $300 million. The film that the studio was so afraid to greenlight, and only gave a budget of around $58 million to, has already set numerous box office records, including biggest February opening, biggest opening weekend for a first time director, biggest Valentine’s Day and President’s Day opening, biggest feature directorial debut opening, and biggest R-rated opening of all-time, beating The Matrix Reloaded’s 13 year record. Deadpool is also the 7th biggest comic book movie opening of all-time behind the final two Dark Knight films, Spider-Man 3, Iron Man 3 and the two Avengers movies, not accounting for inflation. If that wasn’t impressive enough, the film also now stands as the 8th biggest non-summer debut of all-time and the 17th biggest opening in movie history. It’s also the biggest opening ever for 20th Century Fox, making more than all the other previous X-Men movies as well as massive hits like Avatar and Titanic. With positive reviews and an A CinemaScore from all age groups with 92 percent of moviegoers saying they would recommend Deadpool to a friend, we can expect the film to continue to score at the box office for several more weeks. After watching, Senior Paul Mangiaracina said, "I love how Deadpool breaks the meta." Senior Patrick Silver says, "Sounds like a f*cking franchise." As for the future of the character, those that stuck around for the credits already know a sequel is coming, though no official release date has been set. We’ll also likely see Deadpool showing up in other X-Men movies in the coming years and we’ll probably see the studio finally give the long in development X-Force movie an official green light. One thing is for sure, we haven't seen the last of the merk with a mouth.
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