Deadpool Deadpool Box Office Prediction Thread

[harryoscop]

I'm so happy for the surprise success. This movie is brilliant and it truly deserves it.

 

[Eddie]

People haven't gone into theaters and other public spaces and ****ed people to death but they have gone into those places and shot people to death.

Maybe not at the theaters you've been going to...

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Maybe not at the theaters you've been going to...

 

[-JKR-]

I have a 12 year old and I would prefer he find out about pegging from a source other than Deadpool.... I am going to wait a few years before I allow them to see it...

Who tells you they don't already know, especially in the day of Internet. And I say that with the upmost respect. I've got a brother around that age. But you know, kids talk about stuff like that when they're alone.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I'm glad DP is doing historical business but I hope it doesn't hurt the chances of FF going back to Marvel.

The FF fit perfectly with MCU.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Is knowing about pegging any worse than knowing about any other sexual act?

 

[CB Fan]

I'm interested in seeing if this will positively effect Apocalypse. I thought the film was alright but I loved that it was unapologetically deadpool I've yet to see an X-Men film be unapologetically x-men but Apocalypse does look good.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

If X-Men is nothing like Deadpool or features Deadpool I don't see why it would help.

 

[CB Fan]

If X-Men is nothing like Deadpool or features Deadpool I don't see why it would help.

It's not yet I heard conversations after Deadpool assuming he might show up for a cameo in apocalypse since he's x-men related.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Deadpool in an actual X-Men movie would be odd because of the different ratings.

I think X-Men is going to do just fine but as well as Deadpool domestically? I'd be shocked.

 

[terry78]

Deadpool could cameo in a pg-13 romp but it would have involve a lot of him lampshading the fact he can't do what he did in his own movie.

 

[samsnee]

I don't know. Apocalypse is supposed to be a world ending blockbuster event. Deadpool knows it's all a movie. I don't think I would combine the two.

 

[chamber-music]

Deadpool is a 15 rated movie in the UK.

 

[def28]

I don't know. Apocalypse is supposed to be a world ending blockbuster event. Deadpool knows it's all a movie. I don't think I would combine the two.

When a film is not from Deadpool's point of view it changes how he interacts and some of the rules he breaks.

They do that in the comics as well. I really don't see it as a big deal. He can still be written as a funny/demented bad ass. X-Force will have to deal with him like that along with more low key 4th wall breaks.

 

[Sithborg]

If X-Men is nothing like Deadpool or features Deadpool I don't see why it would help.

Deadpool and the X-men connection in the movie may help build up some goodwill to the franchise as a whole. I doubt it will be significant, though.

 

[jmc]

Deadpool could cameo in a pg-13 romp but it would have involve a lot of him lampshading the fact he can't do what he did in his own movie.

I could also see a situation where he starts talking to the audience and one of the X-Men characters looks at him and asks 'Who the hell are you talking too?'.

 

[Jason Kane]

I'm glad DP is doing historical business but I hope it doesn't hurt the chances of FF going back to Marvel.

The FF fit perfectly with MCU.

I doubt it will. After managing to piss off old man Murdoch, do you really think the studio underlings will risk pissing him off further and ruining the brand more than they already have?

 

[Mjölnir]

Her name is Grace Randolph. I would probably advise against trolling her.

I mean look the fact that people got that upset about her internet petition was stupid. Was her petition silly? Yes it was. But it's not like that petition was going to actually make a different. I think it was dumber that a lot of people got so bent out of shape about it.

Yeah, it's kind of pathetic how so many people get bent out of shape just because someone expresses opinions that don't align with their own.

 

[TheVileOne]

High strung Deadpool fans took it as a personal attack and act of war. Randolph's viewers on this issue are nonsense, but the idea that an internet petition was going to get Fox to change the rating on this film is foolish in and of itself.

When do internet petitions ever work anyway? They are garbage.

 

[Raiden]

I'm glad DP is doing historical business but I hope it doesn't hurt the chances of FF going back to Marvel.

The FF fit perfectly with MCU.

:fingers crossed:

 

[Leenie]

Happy for the movie's success. It's well-deserved!

 

[metaphysician]

What single scene earned THE MATRIX an R rating?

I don't know if its what actually convinced the MPAA ratings board, but I'd say "the Lobby Fight". You have the heroes fighting what is, to most appearances, an army of cops, and brutally gunning them down to the last man, in a scene filmed to frame the heroes as not just heroes, but glorious in their violence. *I'd* certainly give the movie R for that. Much more so than for simple gore, that's exactly the kind of violence that should require an older, more mature audience to properly contextualize it.

( And I say this as someone who loves the first Matrix movie, and in particular thinks that scene is one of the best fight scenes ever filmed. It just shouldn't be watched by kids who aren't mature enough to yet. )

 

[Marvel]

To think Fox and Deadpool fans owe all this to Blade Trinity!

Seriously, I just saw the Google Talk Ryan Reynolds interview where he says that he didn't even know who Deadpool was until someone from Marvel saw Blade Trinity and sent him all the comics saying he was Deadpool in that film. Ryan says he instantly fell in love reading the material. So, no Blade Trinity NO Deadpool.

 

[metaphysician]

This is not true. Most of the time the studio has a movie they want to make and hires a director that can make what they want into reality. At least when it comes to the big budget movies. A movie is the producer's movie. He's the director's boss on the production.

The idea of the free, creative director is an exaggerated dream among many fans. It's very rare the the director has free hands. When it comes to superhero movies I'd say that maybe Nolan had pretty much free hands, but no one else.

Of course it doesn't mean that the studio has to heavily interfere in all stages of production. You mention Marvel Studios but James Gunn said he pretty much got to make everything the way he wanted, just because the studio approved of what he was doing. He wasn't just given the freedom to make his movie and then come to the studio with it though, they were checking to see if changes needed to be done, as is the norm.

With Deadpool it was a project that was being sold to the studio and since the budget was so low they were under less scrutiny. Of course much of that also lies in that the project was green lit due to fan response, so they kind of knew that it was working. Without that the issue wasn't even that they would have to have more scrutiny but rather that the studio wasn't even making the movie.

Basically, every movies needs a vision, yes. It does not, however, need to be the *director* who provides that vision. It could be the screenwriter, it could be the lead actor, and yes, it could be the producers.

 

[mclay18]

$135M 3-day weekend and $151M 4-day holiday is unprecedented for an R-rated superhero film. Even more so as a February release.

Not only has Deadpool proved that R-rated superhero films can be bankable, but that February can also be a blockbuster month.

I see some studios shifting some movies around in a few days or weeks to take advantage of the window Deadpool has opened. President's Day weekend can be as lucrative as a prime summer or holiday release.