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Deadpool & Wolverine Join the Billion-Dollar Club! | Could Become the #1 R-Rated Movie Ever
Marvel Studios and Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine has added to its list of records, becoming the highest-grossing U.S. R-rated film ever worldwide. To get there, the franchise is reclaiming the title from 2019’s Joker ($1.079 billion). Through Thursday, the Merc with a Mouth and the adamantium-clawed X-Man has grossed $1,085.6 million (or $1.086 billion) worldwide. The split is $516.8 million from domestic and $568.8 million from the international box office.
In October 2019, when Joker was crowned the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time, it did so by surpassing 2016’s Deadpool finale’s $783M worldwide gross. (Deadpool 2’s $785M worldwide gross includes $47M from the PG-13 holiday cut). Either way, there’s a bit of a role reversal going on here.
The three-part film starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman surpassed the $1 billion global box office mark this past weekend, making it only the second R-rated American film to reach that milestone (Joker was the other).
