Imax announces biggest opening weekend since 2022 for “Deadpool & Wolverine”

Imax (IMAX) and Disney/Marvel (DIS) reported a record $36.5M Imax opening weekend for “Deadpool & Wolverine”. The superheroe film delivered the eighth biggest Imax opening weekend of all time, with milestones including: biggest IMAX July opening ever, biggest Imax R-rated opening weekend ever, biggest Imax opening weekend of any movie since “Avatar: The Way of Water” in 2022, biggest Imax opening weekend of a Marvel movie since “Spider-Man: No Way Home” in 2021, and the fourth biggest Imax Marvel opening of all time. In North America, “Deadpool & Wolverine” opened to $19.1M, or 9.3% of the domestic box office on approximately 1% of total screens, a $46K per screen average in the United States and Canada.