{"id":6636,"date":"2016-02-14T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/deadpool-nabs-record-for-biggest-r-rated-opening-ever\/"},"modified":"2016-02-14T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T22:00:00","slug":"deadpool-nabs-record-for-biggest-r-rated-opening-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/deadpool-nabs-record-for-biggest-r-rated-opening-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"'Deadpool' Nabs Record for Biggest R-rated Opening Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Erik Davis<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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Break out the chimichangas — with $135 million at the box office in its first three days, the R-rated Deadpool<\/em><\/strong> has not only smashed all President’s weekend records, but it also now holds the record for highest R-rated opening ever. And not just by a little, either. The previous R-rated record holder belonged to The Matrix Reloaded<\/em> ($91 million), which was a summer release.<\/p>\n

That makes Deadpool’s<\/em> record $135 million all the more special, as no film has ever snagged those kinds of numbers in February. Heck, no February film has ever managed to open to $100 million, period. And with Monday being a holiday, box office experts expect Deadpool<\/em> to reach upwards of $150 million for the four-day when all is said and done.<\/p>\n

So what does this all mean? Will every superhero movie from now on come with an R rating?<\/p>\n

No, not quite. Disney won’t make an R-rated superhero movie, so you can count out Marvel Studios and any character associated with the Avengers. But we expect Fox to go all-in on an R-rated cinematic universe, though for starters they’ll probably stick to movies that revolve around Deadpool<\/em> — like the already-announced Deadpool<\/em> sequel and possibly even an X-Force movie, too.<\/p>\n

This is a big deal for the superhero genre, and for 2016 in general as it represents a year where studios will take bigger risks with their comic properties. The big question now is… will Fox tweak any of the X-Men<\/em> properties with a higher rating? Perhaps Wolverine 3<\/em>?<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n

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Source:: http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/deadpool-box-office\/20087?wssac=164&wssaffid=news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Break out the chimichangas — with $135 million at the box office in its first three days, the R-rated Deadpool<\/em><\/strong> has not only smashed all President’s weekend records, but it also now holds the record for highest R-rated opening ever. And not just by a little, either. The previous R-rated record holder belonged to The Matrix Reloaded<\/em> ($91 million), which was a summer release.<\/p>\n

That makes Deadpool’s<\/em> record $135 million all the more special, as no film has ever snagged those kinds of numbers in February. Heck, no February film has ever managed to open to $100 million, period. And with Monday being a holiday, box office experts expect Deadpool<\/em> to reach upwards of $150 million for the four-day when all is said and done.<\/p>\n

So what does this all mean? Will every superhero movie from now on come with an R rating?<\/p>\n

No, not quite. Disney won’t make an R-rated superhero movie, so you can count out Marvel Studios and any character associated with the Avengers. But we expect Fox to go all-in on an R-rated cinematic universe, though for starters they’ll probably stick to movies that revolve around Deadpool<\/em> — like the already-announced Deadpool<\/em> sequel and possibly even an X-Force movie, too.<\/p>\n

This is a big deal for the superhero genre, and for 2016 in general as it represents a year where studios will take bigger risks with their comic properties. The big question now is… will Fox tweak any of the X-Men<\/em> properties with a higher rating? Perhaps Wolverine 3<\/em>?<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n

This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service – if this is your content and you’re reading it on someone else’s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}