The summer of 2024 was filled with incredible blockbuster films that had audiences rushing to the theaters, but which one reigned supreme? Judging by just financial success, Deadpool & Wolverine — the third installment in the Deadpool franchise — easily takes the cake. In addition to having the biggest R-rated opening ever with its $444 million global debut , the superhero flick had the biggest domestic opening week of 2024. It was also a personal win for stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman , who had the biggest openings of their careers.
“This is kind of hard to process,” Reynolds wrote via Instagram after the film’s July opening. “But thank you to everyone who went to see the film this weekend.” Jackman also took to social media to celebrate the news at the time, sharing fan art of his character, Wolverine, longingly staring at a framed image that reads “#1 MOVIE IN THE WORLD.
” He captioned the post, “ Wolverine and Deadpool is the #1 movie in the world. Thank you ALL!” Deadpool & Wolverine certainly also made its mark in the pop culture zeitgeist, with a stellar marketing campaign, a slew of millennial pop bops and endless surprise cameos. But Deadpool wasn’t the only sequel to bring in the big bucks this summer — Twisters, Alien Romulus, Inside Out 2 and Bad Boys: Ride or Die also crushed it with their respective box office numbers.
(And a couple of them were able to do it with entirely new casts.) Every big summer blockbuster in 2024 was worth .