I suppose it might mean something if they learned the lesson to that if you let creatives enthusatic to make a film just get on with it and don't meddle too much or insist that it becomes just another building block in their franchise. See also: Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy.
I don't give two flying shots about how much money a movie bring in..why is this always the main focus for movies. So stupid..it's just rich people slapping the population with how much greed they have
Deadline is a film industry trade paper, so success metrics like Box Office are of interest to it, especially insofar as those metrics guide the trajectory of industry trends.
They have the data on advanced ticket sales - they went up for sale very early and, if my multiplex is anything to go by, the popular screenings have been pretty much sold out for months.
There has been a series if reports since sales opened - it broke the day one record for amsale of tickets to an R-rated film, Fandango says it is steadily selling twice as many tickets for this than any other 2024 film, etc.
Conservative estimates suggest it will easily have the highest domestic opening weekend for an R-rated film (the current highest is the first film on $132m) and some suggest it could hit $200m (which would be the first R-rated movie to do that and only the ninth ever), so it'll be interesting to see what the numbers look like next week.
Also people love Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, or at least we used to. I’m sure some people are tired of the schtick but he does love the character. Hugh Jackman is also a highly respected Wolverine. So I think that’s part of it.