"Deadpool & Wolverine" Hits $1bn Mark at Global Box Office

Marvel Studios' threequel movie "Deadpool & Wolverine" is the newest member of the billion-dollar club.

The Disney Marvel pic, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman as their comic book alter egos, has grossed $494.3 million in North America and $535.1 million internationally for a grand total of $1.029 billion at the global box office. 

The movie is the second release of 2024, following Disney’s Pixar smash “Inside Out 2” with $1.558 billion, to surpass the billion-dollar mark.

It will soon overtake 2019’s “Joker” ($1.07 billion, the only other R-rated film to cross the coveted milestone) as the highest-grossing R-rated film in history.

“Deadpool & Wolverine” is the 31st Disney film and 11th in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to reach the $1 billion mark. 

The raunchy save-the-world adventure has been a needed win for the MCU. Despite the comic book behemoth remains in rarified air in terms of commercial appeal, recent entries like “Eternals,” “The Marvels” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” have stumbled and prompted questions about the long-term viability of the franchise. 

While post-pandemic installments such as “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness” ($956 million), 2022’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” ($859 million) and 2023’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” ($846 million) neared the $1 billion mark, “Deadpool & Wolverine” is only the second MCU movie to surpass the benchmark since 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.” Sony’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” was the first with $1.9 billion in 2021.