Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Box Office: “Deadpool and Wolverine” Will Hit $300 Mil Thursday Night, Capping a Record Week

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The record books are being rewritten right now for “Deadpool and Wolverine.”

Shawn Levy’s MAD Magazine send up of Marvel superheroes will start Friday with $300 million, just a week after it opened.

The Ryan Gosling-Hugh Jackman cape comedy already has over $500 million logged worldwide. The $600 million mark also looms on that front for Friday morning.

There is no competition coming any time soon, either. Releases for August are innocuous at best. “D&W” is the last of this summer’s big movies. It has a clear shot through Labor Day. Some films will be of secondary interest. But by and large, it’s a “D&W” month and nothing will get in the way.

The next big studio release is “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” on September 6th, from Warner Bros.

One note: other than “Dune Part Two” we still have no potential Oscar nominees.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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