Crossing $200M+ After Marvel’s Epic Comic-Con Panel; Update $211M, $444M WW

FRIDAY MIDDAY: Deadpool & Wolverine is on its way to the biggest opening for an R-rated movie with a $55M Friday that will put it around $180M, per sources, with plenty of room to grow. Keeping a pulse on walk-up business, particularly during late-night is tricky. All along this summer, Latino and Hispanic audiences have walked-up in bulk, changing the commercial prospects of tentpoles’ fates for the better, and Thursday night as we told you they repped 35% of all D&W ticket buyers.

At $180M, D&W will be the 14th best domestic opening of all-time at the box office, pegging ahead of Captain America: Civil War ($179.1M) and just below Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ($181.3M). Wakanda Forever turned in a first day/previews of $84.2M, while Civil War did $75.5M.

Goes Wild On Friday With $95M+, Weekend Now At $195M-$205M

SATURDAY AM UPDATE: Marvel is back, baby. Disney is reporting a $96M first day/previews for Deadpool & Wolverine, the sixth-highest opening ever that the U.S./Canada box office has seen. The revised 3-day estimate is $195M-$205M, easily the best openings ever for filmmaker Shawn Levy (besting Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian‘s $54M), and stars Ryan Reynolds (beating Deadpool‘s $132.4M) and Hugh Jackman (ahead of 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand‘s $102.7M).

At $195M-$205M, that will put D&W as either the eighth- or ninth-best opening at the domestic B.O. of all-time, behind Avengers: Endgame ($357.1M), Spider-Man: No Way Home ($260.1M), Avengers: Infinity War ($257.6M), Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($247.9M), Star Wars: The Last Jedi ($220M), Jurassic World ($208.8M), The Avengers ($207.4M), and Black Panther ($202M).

I just purchased 2 tickets for my sister and I to see in IMAX tomorrow at 4PM.. I'm in it just to see a glimpse of the HULK from what people have said.. Now THAT'S a matchup!!

SUNDAY AM EARLY: On the heels of a killer Saturday night in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con for Marvel, the Shawn Levy directed, produced and written Deadpool & Wolverine grossed $61.5M on Saturday, per Disney, for what is definitely a $205M opening weekend — just like we told you back in mid-June, per Quorum. There’s bound to be even more cash. Some felt it wasn’t possible for a R-rated movie — but here we are. Global is at $438.3M.

It’s also the eighth-highest opening of all-time, one of nine movies to open north of $200M — six of ’em belonging to Marvel. It’s also the fifth-biggest opening ever for a superhero movie. In addition to opening records, as we told you for Levy, Hugh Jackman, and Ryan Reynolds, D&W also notched the biggest July opening of all-time, ahead of The Lion King ($191.8M)

Insane opening

MONDAY AM: It was bound to be bigger. Marvel Studios and Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine is now the 6th biggest opening at the domestic B.O. with $211M in addition to breaking the record for an R-rated movie’s first weekend at the B.O. This is after a better-than-expected Sunday of $53.5M. The global opening is $444.1M now.