JOKER broke the record for R-Rated films, and DEADPOOL star Ryan Reynolds reacts with a hysterical photoshopped tweet!

“R-Rated box office congratulatory posts aren’t like the ones you’re used to…” Reynolds tweeted on Friday morning.

https://twitter.com/VancityReynolds/status/1187756233928990720

Joker earned $2.4 million on Thursday, bringing its 21-day total to $258.675 million. Presuming it doesn’t drop dead today, it’ll pass Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($259 million in 2014), The Amazing Spider-Man ($262 million in 2012) by tonight. The film had $778 million worldwide as of Wednesday, and it has now earned $788.3 million worldwide. That’ll put it right above Deadpool ($782.6 million in 2016) and Deadpool 2 ($785.05 million in 2018). So, yes, Joker is now the biggest R-rated movie of all time, sans inflation.

Fun fact: Even if it needed a few more hours to pass Deadpool 2, it would already be the biggest R-rated grosser when it passes Deadpool. Why is that? $50 million of Deadpool 2’s global gross was courtesy of a PG-13 version of the movie. As you may recall, Fox put together a PG-13 version of Deadpool 2, with the R-rated content removed and a framing device involving Fred Savage riffing on his character from The Princess Bride, last Christmas. This wasn’t about appeasing Disney or seeing if a PG-13 Deadpool could fly in the MCU. It was about seeing whether there was any interest in the character, with his R-rated edges sanded off no less, in China.

And, sure enough, Once Upon a Deadpool earned $6 million in North America but $44 million overseas, with $24 million of that coming from China. That’s a lot better than the “edited for kids” cuts of The Godfather, Excalibur, Saturday Night Fever, The Passion of the Christ and The King’s Speech. So, sans Once Upon A Deadpool, the total gross of Deadpool 2 is $318 million domestic (on par with Iron Man) and $735 million worldwide. If we’re only counting the grosses that an R-rated movie earned while it was rated R, then Deadpool, which earned $783 million worldwide (including $363 million in North America) in 2016, is the biggest unadjusted R-rated movie for the next few hours.

The actor’s tweet included a Photoshopped poster of “Joker” which read “you motherf—–” on it instead of the title character’s name.

The poster also lists the names of actors and nicknames for characters in other high-grossing R-rated movies. Here’s that list of names, and the movies they reference.

Deadpool (Reynolds’ own comic-book film)
Neo (“The Matrix”)
Pennywise (“It”)
Jesus (“The Passion of the Christ”)
Hugh Jackman (the actor played Wolverine one last time in “Logan”)
The Wolfpack (“The Hangover”)
Mr. Grey (“50 Shades of Grey”)
Ted (“Ted”)

Box Office: ‘Joker’ Has Become The Biggest R-Rated Movie Ever
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2019/10/25/joker-box-office-oscars-r-rated-dc-films-joaquin-phoenix-warner-bros-venom-logan-deadpool/#46b7e4407b61

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