The superhero film starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman is the second highest-grossing film of 2024 and earned a whopping $1.3 billion worldwide. It recently surpassed “Barbie” ($636.2 million) to become the 12th highest-grossing North American release in history. It also ranks as the highest-grossing R-rated film ever.

Directed by Shawn Levy (“Free Guy,” “Night at the Museum”), the film follows Reynolds’ Wade Wilson, aka Deadpool, whose peaceful existence comes crashing down when the Time Variance Authority interferes in his life. He soon makes enemies with Wolverine (Jackman) to save his world from a multiversal threat. It is the first Marvel Cinematic Universe entry headlined by comic book characters previously licensed to 20th Century Fox, which was acquired by the Walt Disney Company in 2019.

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The film is packed with cameos galore, featuring everyone from Chris Evans, who returns to the Marvel Cinematic Universe to play Johnny Storm, aka the Human Torch, from his first superhero role on Fox’s “Fantastic Four.” He’s joined by Jennifer Garner’s Elektra, Wesley Snipes’ Blade, Dafne Keen’s are.

Other MCU characters also pop up, including Jon Favreau’s Happy Hogan, the Hulk and Wunmi Mosaku’s Hunter B-15 from “Loki.” Then there are all the Deadpool and Wolverine variants: Henry Cavill cameos as Cavillrine; Reynolds’ wife Blake Lively voices Ladypool; Matthew McConaughey briefly voices Cowboy Deadpool and Nathan Fillion is Headpool, a disembodied, floating head.

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