DEADPOOL Has $260 Million Global Opening Weekend

DEADPOOL smashed box office records over the 3-day holiday weekend bringing in an estimated $135 million. Along with an overseas total of $125 million, the film from 20th Century Fox looks to have a $260 million global opening weekend.

Starring Ryan Reynolds and based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.

Read Michael Haffner’s review here.

The top 12 domestic weekend box office estimates from comScore.com are below.

1. Deadpool – 20th Century Fox – $135.0M
2. Kung Fu Panda 3 – 20th Century Fox – $19.6M
3. How To Be Single – Warner Bros. – $18.8M
4. Zoolander 2 – Paramount – $15.7M
5. Revenant, The – 20th Century Fox – $6.9M
6. Hail, Caesar! – Universal – $6.6M
7. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Disney – $6.2M
8. Choice, The – Lionsgate – $5.2M
9. Ride Along 2 – Universal – $4.1M
10. Boy, The – STX Entertainment – $2.9M
11. Finest Hours, The – Disney – $2.9M
12. 5th Wave, The – Sony – $2.7M