Refresh for latest…: Marvel/Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine has started tearing it up at the international box office. From 48 material markets combined on Wednesday and Thursday, Ryan Reynolds‘ Merc with a Mouth and Hugh Jackman‘s adamantium-clawed mutant have grossed $64.8M across their first two days of overseas play.
That puts the Shawn Levy-directed installment tracking at an estimated 57% ahead of Deadpool and 48% ahead of Deadpool 2 in the same suite of offshore markets at current rates.
In Latin America, D&W has opened No. 1 in all markets with a 78% share across the region. In Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, the guys landed the 2nd biggest opening day of 2024.
In Europe, D&W has opened No. 1 everywhere including logging the biggest opening day of the year in Spain and Germany, and the 2nd best in the UK and Italy. Australia also banked the biggest opening day of the year.
The Top 5 markets through Thursday are Mexico ($6.6M), UK ($6M), France ($3.6M), Italy ($3.5M) and Australia ($3.4M).
Deadpool & Wolverine is rolling out in all international markets this frame. China opens today and started off with $8.5M (not included in the totals above). This reps the 2nd highest non-local opening day of 2024. Early social scores are encouraging with Maoyan at 9.2 and TPP 9.3.
As we noted coming in, although Reynolds, Jackman and Levy visited Shanghai to kick off overseas promotion amid much fanfare, they face headwinds in the market given strong local competition.
This is the first time the Merc with a Mouth is going to China in step with the rest of the world. The first Deadpool did not release in China, while Deadpool 2, refashioned as Once Upon a Deadpool with new scenes to create a PG-13 version, was released there in early 2019, many months after the original DP2 had its run elsewhere.
In all, on their offshore BFF tour, Reynolds, Jackman and Levy traveled to Shanghai, Seoul, London, Berlin and Rio.
As Anthony has reported, and alongside a massive push at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday, domestic previews came in at $38.5M; the 8th biggest previews ever and the highest for an R-rated film.
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