Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman’s Deadpool and Wolverine has helped revive interest in not only superhero films, but also the India box office, which hasn’t exactly had too many hits this year. The Marvel film, on its seventh day in theatres, has earned more than Rs 5 crore, according to industry tracker Sacnilk. This takes the film’s week-one total to almost Rs 90 crore. Only one Hollywood film has managed to pass the Rs 100 crore mark this year: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. Deadpool & Wolverine will surpass the benchmark this weekend, as it remains the number one choice for audiences despite the release of new films such as Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha and Ulajh.
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Globally, Deadpool & Wolverine is nearing the $600 million milestone, and should become the second film of the year to pass the $1 billion mark after Inside Out 2. It’s already among the highest-grossing R-rated films of all time, and will soon overtake the lifetime hauls of Deadpool and Deadpool 2.
Deadpool & Wolverine has performed features Reynolds and Jackman reprising their most popular roles, and introducing the Marvel Cinematic Universe to characters from the X-Men film franchise. This was facilitated by Disney’s takeover of 20th Century Fox and its assets some years ago. But the MCU has been struggling in recent years, due to an increasing sense of superhero fatigue. Several recent MCU films, such as Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, The Marvels, and Eternals, under-performed at the box office.
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