The movie's success should give confidence to Warner Bros.'s upcoming Suicide Squad, an edgier, rival superhero flick in the same vein. The most successful R-rated comic book movie prior to Deadpool, 2007's 300, opened to only $70 million.ĭeadpool has essentially kicked Hollywood's superhero industrial complex in the teeth, proving that heroes (and antiheroes) can be gory, irreverent, and sexy and still find an audience. And that's in spite of the fact that the film bucked two decades' worth of genre history as BuzzFeed News points out, comic book movies with R ratings just don't bring in that kind of money. Twentieth Century Fox spent a meager $58 million on a risky - and, to some fans, maybe even foreign - comic book movie, warned parents not to let their kids see it, and somehow came away with a gigantic hit. It's making it better.įrom a numbers perspective, what Deadpool achieved shouldn't have been possible. Related Movie review: Deadpool isn't reinventing the superhero genre.
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