鈥淒eadpool & Wolverine鈥� had . The comic book film earned $211 million in its first weekend in North American theaters, Disney said Monday.
That鈥檚 $6 million more than was estimated on Sunday, putting 鈥淒eadpool & Wolverine鈥� in a different league. It had already broken the record for an R-rated movie. But the film starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman now boasts the sixth highest opening weekend of all time, surpassing 鈥淛urassic World鈥� which opened to $208.8 million in 2015.
The Walt Disney Co. can now claim five of the six biggest box office openings ever, not accounting for inflation, including two 鈥淎vengers鈥� movies, 鈥淓ndgame鈥� and 鈥淚nfinity War,鈥� and two 鈥淪tar Wars鈥� films, 鈥淭he Force Awakens鈥� and 鈥淭he Last Jedi.鈥� The only outlier is the second-place holder 鈥淪pider-Man: No Way Home,鈥� which was released by Sony and produced by Marvel Studios.
鈥淒eadpool & Wolverine鈥檚鈥� overperformance also boosted its global number to $444.3 million, surpassing 鈥淎vatar: The Way of Water.鈥�
Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press
