“Deadpool” Shatters Box Office Records With $135 Million Deb

http://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/deadp ... .cv7EexJKn

Pretty impressive for a movie produced with 58 million because it was initially expected to fail miserably at the box office.

NO kidding. It helps that its being very well reviewed. And it's a good movie too. Saw it opening night, loved it.

It's nice to see a Marvel movie that doesn't take itself too seriously and one that is very R rated. This should show Marvel that there is a market for this kind movie.

Well deserved. Excellent representation of Deadpool.

I've been hearing good reviews on it from my friends who've seen it. I'll probably go next weekend.

Too bad he loses the rap battle to Boba Fett

It's rating here in PA is 14 A. I thought that it was R.

The Cineplex here has the movie itself rated 14A @ counter and their website.... doubt they're just showing the trailer for 1:48.

On Cineplex's website Manitoba and Ontario are the only provinces giving it an 18. Quebec has a 13 rating and everyone else is 14A.

Hmmm, well then my total guess that the MPAA rating is a movie's "official rating" that gets reported in the media.

However, different jurisdictions may use their own rating methods.

Must be. In SK, 18A, R and A are the ratings above 14A. Each province decides. 14 A here means a child under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.

Marvel is impressed enough with the opening results for Deadpool that they apparently now want the third solo Wolverine movie to be R-rated. Not sure if that's as important as doing something simpler like trying to ensure that the third Wolverine movie doesn't lick bag as badly as the first two did. Seriously, it's Marvel's most popular character so how difficult can it be to do a movie with him right? R-rating isn't a guarantee of success because Punisher: War Zone was R-rated and it didn't make that film stink any less either. Not even using ideas from comic writing geniuses like Garth Ennis is enough to make a film succeed if they just throw a bunch of half-assed shit at the wall and hope that some of it sticks.

You would both be correct.
A Canadian R (Quebec 18+) rating is more stringent than a MPAA R rating, which is why many R rated films (MPAA) are shown in Canada as substantially less than R.

Also, each jurisdiction has different requirements for what will place a movie in the R category.

If anybody is wondering, MPAA NC-17 is the closest comparable to a Canadian R or Quebec 18+ rating.

I got nothing as to why the MPAA is centred around 17 years of age, when the age of adulthood is generally accepted as 18, in the US.

First R movie I saw as a kid was the Omen 3. I was 14 or 15 when it came out.

So want to see this. I like the idea of the industry bucking the trend of "family movies make more money". It makes perfect sense that a movie that a family of four is interested in can generate more revenue than a movie made strictly for adults but in this case it as though the demand for a movie made just for grown ups actually succeeded.

Its nice to see if only for the fact that the industry might take risks down the road and avoid Jarjar binxing our interests all to crap.