Deadpool & Wolverine ended the weekend again at the #1 spot for the third week. The movie also crossed the $1 billion mark in total box office, with a cumulative $494.3 million in domestic box office and $535.2 internationally, for a total of $1.029 billion. That makes it already the second highest-grossing R-rated movie ever, just behind 2019's Joker, at $1.079 billion. But Deadpool & Wolverine is still in theaters, so it is guaranteed to surpass Joker's total gross within a week.
When we talk about box office, all movies in contention will be recent due to inflation and population growth. After all, The Godfather had an R-rating, too, but that was 50 years ago when movie tickets were much cheaper. Still, the first two R-rated movies to ever hit a billion at the box office are superhero movies. That's because, while superhero movies always make a ton of money, there haven't been many with an R-rating. In fact, there have been only three: Deadpool & Wolverine, Joker, and Logan -and Logan is the ninth highest grossing R-rated movie of all time. With numbers like that, they will not be the last.
As far as the weekend went, while Ryan Reynolds is celebrating his movie staying at #1, his wife Blake Lively's new film It Ends with Us came in second with a $50 million take. It was a happy weekend for the couple.