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Although Deadpool & Wolverine is an absolute box-office smash, I think it would be interesting to ask ourselves about the budget of the films we watch. The original Deadpool film had a production budget of 58 million. The box office return was 782 million. The second film had a production budget of 110 million. The box office return was 785 million. Thus, whereas the original film had a return on investment of 1,348%, Deadpool 2 only had a return on investment of 715%. Deadpool & Wolverine had a production budget of 200 million, which means in-order to have the same return on investment as Deadpool 2, it needs to make 1.4 billion, and in order for it to have the same return on investment as the original film, it needs to make Avatar levels (like 2.6 billion).
It can be done with lots of things (especially if you look at horror films), but it is an interesting exercise to understand how beneficial it is for companies to allow filmmakers to make "original" movies with mid-level budgets.
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