DEADPOOL on the Way to Doubling Projected Revenue

He might not be the best-known superhero, but audiences are eating him up already.

DEADPOOL, a new Marvel film starring Ryan Reynolds, opened in theatres just yesterday, and it is well on its way to beating box office stats of Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Captain America 2. Rated R, the action flick is projected to earn more than $160 million domestically by the end of the holiday weekend.

As of Saturday, the film has $47.5 million and should rake in $115 million more over Sunday and Monday. Not only would this double Fox's original estimate, it would be a record for R-rated films.

20th Century FOX's DEADPOOL, stars Ryan Reynolds as the title character, T.J. Miller as Weasel, Gina Carano as Angel Dust, Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Morena Baccarin as COPYCAT and Ed Skrein as Ajax. Directed by Tim Miller from a script by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, Deadpool was released on February 12, 2016.

Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, "Deadpool" tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.

Leslie Uggams starred in Hallelujah, Baby!, which premiered on Broadway in 1967, and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a musical. She appeared on Broadway in the revue Blues in the Night in 1982 and in the musical revue of the works of Jerry Herman, Jerry's Girls in 1985. Later Broadway roles include Muzzy in Thoroughly Modern Millie (2003 - 2004) and Ethel Thayer in On Golden Pond at the KENNEDY Center in 2004 and on Broadway at the Cort Theatre in 2005. In 2001 she appeared in the August Wilson play King Hedley II, receiving a nomination for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

Source: People