Time to crack open the celebratory cheap wine for Deadpool, which soared to a head-turning, historic opening weekend at the box office with $135 million, according to studio estimates.
The R-rated superhero movie, featuring Ryan Reynolds as Marvel’s foul-mouthed, irreverent Deadpool, set a slew of new records: the biggest R-rated opening (beating 2003’s The Matrix Reloaded, which opened with $91.8 million), the biggest February weekend and biggest President’s Day four-day weekend (beating 2015’s Fifty Shades of Grey,with $85.2 million for the former and $93 million for the latter).
Deadpool is expected to take an overwhelming $150 million over the full four-day holiday weekend.
It’s all shocking given the movie’s restrictive R-rating and top-end projection of $90 million going into the weekend, says Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for comScore tracking service… see more
source: usatoday
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