Not even off topic, Jesus and Marvel Jesus, both popular it seems.
25.3. Wednesday around 18 per deadline, which again has been low all week.
Thanks. Weekend’s getting close now. Looking forward to where we are by the end of it.
I thought it worked. It finally felt like I was actually seeing Wolverine onscreen. I like that they gave him the CG eye lenses like Deadpool.
Its kind of crazy how Deadpool has dominated the Fox-verse considering it came in late and started as a joke villain character in his early life to dominating the X-Men and F4 who are more established and well known comic book characters. It also shows how badly FoX handled some of their IP of course as well at times.
Third weekend I’d say.
Plenty of gas left after that then to push further beyond the billion dollar mark.
Yah I think @lenz had it pegged at $1.2 billion earlier in the thread and that seems like a solid bet now. Tho the Wednesday OS number has me starting to buy into 1.3+.
Hopefully its a little self perpetuating and the news of it crossing the magical $1B mark will encourage those old MCU veterans to come out of retirement to go and see it who might still on the fence to see what all the fuss is about. It certainly doesnt seem like the marketing has let up from Ryan and Hugh at the moment at least anyway.
I still remember how Fant4stic and Dark Phoenix opened at #2 with less than $50 million at domestic box office and ultimately failing to cross the $100 million mark which was a first for both of the IPs. At that time, the only Marvel ips that failed to reach $100 million were Blade, Ghost Rider, Elektra, Punisher and Howard the Duck. So imagine how embarrassing those numbers were at the time. Also both films had Simon Kinberg, which to this day, I never fully understand why he got such a huge power position at Fox after years of bad track record as a screenwriter.
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