Showing posts with label Deadpool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Deadpool. Show all posts

Saturday, 20 February 2016

On Deadpool and How Creative Risks Pay Off

One of the joys of this week - apart from seeing Ryan Reynolds' hilarious anti-superhero movie Deadpool - has been watching Hollywood analysts try to explain its financial success.

"Nobody knows anything" has never been more apt, as a very adult movie about a wisecracking cult character made $265 million around the world in its first week. Studio watchers were left scratching their heads as moviegoers ignored safe bets like Zoolander 2 in favour of a film that begins with a joke about Hugh Jackman's testicles and gets progressively filthier from there.