‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Lifts Imax’s Quarterly Earnings, But Revenues Slip Without an ‘Oppenheimer’
variety.comBrent Lang Executive Editor “Deadpool & Wolverine,” the R-rated and irreverent Marvel mash-up, proved to be big business for Imax, lifting quarterly earnings at a company that has become synonymous with comic book movies.
The film delivered $83 million grosses in Imax’s global network of screens — the fifth best result for a Marvel installment.
However, the Merc with a Mouth and the X-Man with Adamantium claws couldn’t match J. Robert Oppenheimer‘s reign last year. Overall, revenues at the company topped out at $91.5 million, down 12% from the $103.9 million that Imax logged in the year-ago period when Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” which was filmed with Imax cameras, became one of the biggest hits in its history.
Net income for the three-month period ending in September stood at $13.9 million, a 16% improvement from the $12 million that Imax delivered in the year-ago stretch.
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