News culture “Deadpool & Wolverine” is not a worldwide success: The MCU film is ridiculed by the $420 million action comedy at the box office in Germany
If you thought Deadpool & Wolverine was the current global sensation, know that this is far from the case everywhere! In China, the film never reached the number one spot and has even just left the current top 5!
The unbridled Chinese market
If all over the world, Deadpool and Wolverine – the latest from Marvel Studios – continues to establish itself as the star title of summer 2024there is a country of die-hards that still resists the invasion of the duo dressed all in red and yellow. In fact, In China, a family comedy called “Successor” is currently dictating the ruleswhich, according to consulting firm Artisan Gateway, has grossed nearly $420 million since its July 16 release. It was a major nationwide sensation of the summer and also the fourth-highest-grossing film of the year in China.
Successor traces the eventful life of a poor Chinese couple consisting of a poor father, Ma Chenggang, and Ma Chunlan, the mother. After both of them get lost on the road to prosperity, they ride donkeys to work and They see their son Ma Jiye as their only hope to change their fate. He is very promising and exceeds his academic performance every year. But as Jiye grows up, he realizes that the people around him are becoming more and more alien. The film is co-directed by Yan Fei and Peng Damo (Hello, Mr. Billionaire, Goodbye, Mr. Loser) and met with Shen Teng (Trump), Mali (Moonman), Shi Pengyuan (Never say never), Sa Rina and Xiao Bochen. The production is by Zhang Lebin (My people, my fatherland), Ma Chi, Tian Tian and Zhang Meng.
Billions of dollars, baby
Despite the impermeability of the Chinese market Marvel’s feature film continues to cause a stir. In fact, the film grossed nearly $494.3 million in North America and $535.1 million internationally totaling $1.029 billion at the worldwide box office. This is the second release in 2024 to cross the billion dollar mark, after the success of Disney Pixar – Vice-Versa 2 – with $1.558 billion, and will soon surpass Joker with its $1.07 billion, the only other R-rated film to reach the coveted milestone in the history of cinema with this classification.
Deadpool and Wolverine is now the 31st Disney film and the 11th in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to reach the billion-dollar mark. And although the House of Ideas, once untouchable, is showing signs of wear and tear with some minor defects Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and The miracles other films like Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness (956 million US dollars), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) (859 million US dollars) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 ($846 million) approached the billion-dollar mark without ever exceeding it.
