Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman kicked off celebrations at the giant Comic-Con pop culture gathering Thursday with a special screening of “Deadpool & Wolverine,” their smutty superhero mash-up movie expected to break box office records this weekend.
The Hollywood A-listers took the stage before 6,000 screaming fans — many dressed as spandex-clad heroes and villains — who had won a lottery to attend the hot-ticket opening night event in San Diego, California.
The film brings together two wildly popular characters from the Marvel superhero movies. Reynolds’s potty-mouthed Deadpool teams up with Jackman’s grizzled Wolverine, from the “X-Men” movies.
