“Deadpool’s” speech echoed the tape, which leaked on Thursday, highlighting the 38-year-old’s alleged meltdown backstage at the show when he was the musical guest over the weekend.
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At a current estimated domestic gross of more than $235 million, “Deadpool” is now the domestically highest-grossing superhero movie released by Twentieth Century Fox, beating such recent hits as the 2014 movie “X-Men: Days of Future Past” and the 2006 movie “X-Men: The Last Stand”.
After just 10 days, “Deadpool” has grossed more money domestically than any of the other X-Men films did during their entire box office runs.
In a post-credits scene, the eponymous anti-hero of “Deadpool” tells viewers that Fox is already working on a sequel to the movie, and that decision also appears to be a good one.
After a $132.4 million opening last weekend, it was a given that “Deadpool” would retain the top spot on the box office charts.
Focus Features’ Jesse Owens biopic “Race” limped into sixth place with $7.2 million, but the studio is likely hoping the strong A-grade Cinemascore with lead to some word of mouth to keep it going around the track.
A24 acquired The Witch out of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival with DirecTV for roughly US$1 million, and planned a multi-platform release that would match a limited theatrical debut with a speedy on-demand launch, but the studio rethought that idea after screening the picture.
Behind “Deadpool” is kid-friendly stalwart “Kung Fu Panda 3”, which generated $3 million on Friday and ought to wrap up the weekend with $12 million, pushing its domestic cume past $115 million. But the odds are of it clearing the $350 million Sniper or the highest grossing rated-R movie, The Passion of the Christ and its $370 million total.
During its preview alone, the Reynolds-starrer flick has already begun wrecking records for the Largest February Thursday Preview with $12.7 million, defeating the $8.6 million sales from “Fifty Shades of Grey”.
This week, the field becomes more crowded with three additional new releases opening widely: Fox’s “Eddie the Eagle”, Open Road Films’ “Triple 9” and Lionsgate’s “Gods of Egypt”, which came under fire previous year after promotional posters and a trailer were released revealing that the cast consisted of primarily white people playing characters set in the African country.
It may have been too much like an art house film for some horror fans, though, as “The Witch” received a poor C-minus CinemaScore from audiences.
In second place at the Korean box office was local crime comedy “A Violent Prosecutor”. Now in its tenth weekend, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is still in the top ten.
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Rounding out the top five, moviegoers continued to make a date with How to Be Single.
