Know what I love? How confused Hollywood execs are by Deadpool's record breaking success. They keep trying to rationalize it and attribute to all these random factors. The answer is fairly simple though. It's a success because it's a good movie, and it's a movie that fans have wanted for almost a decade. Fairly simple. The brilliant marketing helped, yes, but it boils down to one thing: the fans wanted it.
Just how record breaking you ask? Well, it had the largest opening weekend for an R-rated film ever. It had the biggest President's Day weekend opening ever. And the only solo superhero film to have a better opening weekend was Iron Man 3. Hollywood is so confused. R-rated films don't make this much many. It made 5 times it's budget in its opening weekend. It is unheard of for a film to make that much profit that quickly. The estimates it was given for its opening weekend was $65 million. It made $265 million. It because it's good. Because Fox let the filmmakers make the movie with minimal interference.
That's the lesson Hollywood has to learn from this: let the filmmakers make the movie. Don't interfere with every step of the production. James Gunn fears, rightly, that this won't be the lesson Hollywood learns. He fears that Hollywood will just try and make carbon copies of Deadpool and expect them to make that kind of money. Honestly, I fear the same thing. When has Hollywood ever learned the right lessons from successful films?
For now, I'm going to watch Deadpool has many times as I can. Because it is a bloody brilliant film. How did I do an entire article on Deadpool without swearing? Am I a god? I think I must be.
Just how record breaking you ask? Well, it had the largest opening weekend for an R-rated film ever. It had the biggest President's Day weekend opening ever. And the only solo superhero film to have a better opening weekend was Iron Man 3. Hollywood is so confused. R-rated films don't make this much many. It made 5 times it's budget in its opening weekend. It is unheard of for a film to make that much profit that quickly. The estimates it was given for its opening weekend was $65 million. It made $265 million. It because it's good. Because Fox let the filmmakers make the movie with minimal interference.
That's the lesson Hollywood has to learn from this: let the filmmakers make the movie. Don't interfere with every step of the production. James Gunn fears, rightly, that this won't be the lesson Hollywood learns. He fears that Hollywood will just try and make carbon copies of Deadpool and expect them to make that kind of money. Honestly, I fear the same thing. When has Hollywood ever learned the right lessons from successful films?
For now, I'm going to watch Deadpool has many times as I can. Because it is a bloody brilliant film. How did I do an entire article on Deadpool without swearing? Am I a god? I think I must be.
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