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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Anyone claiming Deadpool success means something for Marvel in general, has no idea what they're talking about.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Yeah this feels like a headline written by a Marvel exec's assistant.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I suppose it might mean something if they learned the lesson to that if you let creatives enthusatic to make a film just get on with it and don't meddle too much or insist that it becomes just another building block in their franchise. See also: Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't give two flying shots about how much money a movie bring in..why is this always the main focus for movies. So stupid..it's just rich people slapping the population with how much greed they have

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Deadline is a film industry trade paper, so success metrics like Box Office are of interest to it, especially insofar as those metrics guide the trajectory of industry trends.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yo ho ho...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Am I the only person suffering from Deadpool fatigue?

[–] marine_mustang 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m suffering from Prognostication Fatigue. It’s Tuesday and they are already predicting a weekend total? What, they have a crystal ball back there?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

They have the data on advanced ticket sales - they went up for sale very early and, if my multiplex is anything to go by, the popular screenings have been pretty much sold out for months.

There has been a series if reports since sales opened - it broke the day one record for amsale of tickets to an R-rated film, Fandango says it is steadily selling twice as many tickets for this than any other 2024 film, etc.

Conservative estimates suggest it will easily have the highest domestic opening weekend for an R-rated film (the current highest is the first film on $132m) and some suggest it could hit $200m (which would be the first R-rated movie to do that and only the ninth ever), so it'll be interesting to see what the numbers look like next week.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably not but I'm booked in for a midnight screening.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Probably but this doesn't seem to be a good grounds for suggesting it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nobody cares about B-list superheroes. That’s the only reason this isn’t flopping. It only took them four years to figure this out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I fucking love Deadpool but he's 100% a B-list superheroe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

This day and age he’s absolutely an A list. But things like she hulk and moon knight? Not even close.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Also people love Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, or at least we used to. I’m sure some people are tired of the schtick but he does love the character. Hugh Jackman is also a highly respected Wolverine. So I think that’s part of it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So tired of hearing about deadpool

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They’re really going all in on the marketing on this one. If this one fails then the future for MCU looks grim.

To be fair, the future for MCU is grim either way.