Over the past month, the brilliantly satirical superhero-comedy Deadpool, has seen immense box office success and is showing no signs of slowing down.
Boasting a national sum of $331,921,059, Deadpool has official outdone Iron Man’s $318,412,101 and is well on its way to overtaking the earnings of Guardians of the Galaxy at $333,176,600. This success is extremely significant, given that Iron Man arguably reinvigorated the ailing comic book movie industry with its creation of the MCU.
Notably, Deadpool is the only movie on the Top 10 list which was released via Twentieth Century Fox, a distributor which has seen arbitrary levels of success since the rather mixed reception of X-Men: The Last Stand. Deadpool may well provide Fox, and by extension Xavier’s super-team, the opportunity for another shot at the big time.
