Deadpool Scores On A Tuesday

Marvel’s Unlikeliest Superhero Continues To Beat The Opposition

♦According to our friends over at Deadline, Deadpool came a sword’s stroke away from hitting an all-time Tuesday record in the normally-dead February.

It’s not often that you see a movie in February post double digit grosses outside of a holiday and on a weekday.  Estimates show 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool making $11.5M yesterday, which is a breathe away from being an all-time Tuesday record in February. The month’s Tuesday champ belongs to Channing Tatum’s The Vow which made $11.55M, but that was Valentine’s Day. Still for a non-holiday Tuesday, Deadpool‘s numbers are a record of some sort. When figures become finalised later today, we’ll see if Deadpool topples The Vow‘s number.  Deadpool‘s opening came in ahead of its Monday morning estimates with a four-day of $152.19M and a 3 day of $132.4M; historic figures for a R-rated opening, a February release and for 20th Century Fox.

To give you an idea of Deadpool‘s power over the entire box office, the second grossing movie yesterday was DreamWorks Animation/Fox’s Kung Fu Panda 3 which made $1.96M, followed by New Line/MGM/Warner Bros.’ How to Be Single in third with $1.4M and Paramount’s Zoolander 2 in fourth with $980K.

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