Marvel Studios and Disney already have another hit on their hands, with their latest film ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ grossing over $38.5 million in preview showings on Thursday.

Deadpool and Wolverine Break Box Office Records

This box office total makes the Merc with the Mouth’s third outing on the big screen not only the eighth highest grossing preview day ever for a film, but the number one highest grossing preview day for any R-rated film.

Shawn Levy is in the director’s chair this time around, helming the long anticipated, and often thought to be impossible, meetup between two of Marvel’s most popular characters, the titular Deadpool and Wolverine, play by Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman respectively.

The film was announced back in 2022 after a long and difficult development process kept the project from coming together for many years. The 2019 acquisition of 21st Century Fox by the Walt Disney Company further complicated matters, with questions arising of how the decidedly un-family friendly Deadpool character would play into the larger, and much more mild mannered Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The immediate success of the film is not surprising considering the box office records of the characters previous films, and the record that was broken by the film’s debut trailer, with a Guinness World Record being recently awarded to Reynolds and Jackman for “most viewed movie trailer in 24 hours.”

‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ is in theatres now. Have you seen it yet? Let us know what you thought of the film in the comments down below!

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