A clever move in Deadpool 3 kept Blake Lively’s face hidden, preserving the film’s love story and fan expectations.

And so I love that people remember character, and it’s a lesson I learned on “Deadpool 1” right away. It’s just the more they took away in terms of budget, the better the movie got.

Deadpool 3 being so wildly successful stands in juxtaposition to box office bombs like The Marvels, which seemed to put a ...