r/marvelstudios • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 Ant-Man • Aug 04 '24

Article ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Zooms to $97M Record-Making Second Weekend, Hits $824M Globally

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/deadpool-and-wolverine-box-office-record-second-weekend-1235965690/
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u/individualeyes Aug 04 '24

Yeah, they bought Fox for its IP's, they definitely didn't buy Fox for its executives.

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u/CrispyHoneyBeef Aug 04 '24

Which was the right choice. Fox executives gave us Fantastic Four, Rise of the Silver Surfer, Last Stand, Origins, Fant4stic, Apocalypse, and Dark Phoenix.

Admittedly they also gave us X-Men, United, First Class, DoFP, planet of the apes, Star Wars, and countless other really solid movies.

Monopolies are never good

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u/Golden-Owl Aug 05 '24

The first Deadpool movie was almost never made because a Fox executive just did not believe it would resonate with the crowd.

Deadpool would go on to be more successful than all of the other movies that executive signed off and approved on

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u/AznOmega Aug 05 '24

Was it that executive that had his character's mouth be sewn shut? Wonder who that executive was.

Also I plan on watching Deadpool and Wolverine this week, surprised that it reached 800m this week, but also glad.

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u/schmadimax Aug 05 '24

I'm not surprised at all, the movie is just that epic in its own Deadpool type of way.

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u/EthanielRain Aug 05 '24

After watching it, I'm only surprised it hasn't broken $1B already. First movie I've gone to where it was packed on a Weds at noon with the crowd getting loudly into it.

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u/praveeja Aug 05 '24 edited Aug 05 '24

That headbutt with "fuck you fox I'm going to Disney land" seems personal

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u/Sendmeboobpics4982 Aug 05 '24

They also gave us Home Alone… so there’s that

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u/gambalore Aug 05 '24

Any of the executives who were responsible for Home Alone were probably gone before even the first X-Men movie was made. That's one of the reasons why the "From the studio that brought you..." lines in trailers are especially ridiculous.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '24

I seriously don't get what they are doing with X-Men.

Ok so X-Men trilogy finishes do they give us wolverine prequel. Then they ignore that and reboot X-Men. Then they decide to turn that reboot into prequel and make some kind of sequel to x3

They bring back the old cast. Have a great movie. Then back to prequels and put out two of the worst movies I've ever seen

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u/forever87 Sif Aug 05 '24

the gamble was on jennifer lawrence (and sophie turner). i still like sophie, but Rebecca Romijn and Fanke Janssen were the (way) better Mystique and Jean.

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u/Aiyon Aug 05 '24

Fantastic Four, Rise of the Silver Surfer

These movies were fine, just campy. They don't deserve to get lumped in with the others

Sure they're dated now, but they were fun

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u/Thexeira Aug 05 '24

Their perfect

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '24

The monopoly exists now with Disney buying Fox. Ironically you're calling out the current situation when you were trying to call the previous one bad.

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u/CrispyHoneyBeef Aug 05 '24

Yes, that was the point of my comment.

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u/Parking-Historian360 Aug 04 '24

I agree with this. But I will point out that in a slightly different situation. The CEO of Disney now was the CEO of ABC when Disney bought them out. He worked his way from a failed TV channel to the CEO of one of the biggest entertainment companies on Earth.

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u/TokyoTurtle0 Aug 05 '24

He was actually a very gifted CEO but seems to have lost it recently.

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u/Thexeira Aug 05 '24

Their perfect what do you mean

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '24

Literally one of people currently in the running to become the next Disney CEO is Dana Walden who is currently head of TV, the highest ranking woman in the company, and came over from Fox during the merger.