Deadpool & Wolverine Breaks The Record Of All Time Highest Selling R-Rated Movie
'Deadpool & Wolverine' featuring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman broke its most recent and crucial milestone, breaking the records of 'Joker'.
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00:00Marvel Studios and Disney's Deadpool and Wolverine have officially claimed the title of the highest
00:06earning R-rated movie worldwide without considering inflation.
00:11Directed by Sean Levy and featuring Ryan Reynolds and Hulk Jackman in a cast that was a perfect
00:17match, the film broke its previous record and a significant one at that, overtaking
00:22Todd Phillips' Joker on Thursday.
00:25Reynolds announced the achievement on various social media platforms.
00:30The Deadpool spin-off concluded on Thursday with a worldwide gross of $1.086 billion.
00:37The figure encompasses $516.8 million from the United States and $568.8 million from
00:45other countries.
00:47The Joker, featuring Jackman Phoenix as the main character, earned $1.079 billion in 2019
00:55without taking inflation into account.
00:58They remain the top two R-rated films to achieve a $1 billion mark.
01:04The bold third adventure in the Deadpool saga, which kicked off at 20th Century Fox, marks
01:10a significant victory for Reynolds, the creator of the series, as well for Marvel Studios
01:16and the superhero category at large.
01:19It's the first superhero film to reach $1 billion since Sony and Marvel's Spider-Man
01:25No Way Home nearly two years back and the first Marvel-Disney-MCU film to hit $1 billion
01:31since Avengers Endgame in 2019.
01:36Last weekend, Deadpool made it into the exclusive club of billion-dollar movies, matching the
01:41Avengers for the fastest time to reach $1 billion in 19 days.
01:46Since its release over the July 26-28 weekend, Deadpool and Wolverine has broken numerous
01:52records, including overtaking the total lifetime box office of the first two Deadpool movies,
01:58both in the U.S. and worldwide, in just two weeks.
02:02Deadpool's earnings in the U.S. alone reached $363.1 million, with a global total of $782.6
02:09million.