“Thunderbolts *” by Marvel will be easily at the top of the weekend box office after having cracked a gross of 31.5 million dollars during Friday and previewing the projections of 4,330 theaters. This puts the overall action piece, which follows a ragtag team of the least superimposed personalities of Marvel, on the rhythm of landing in projections for a national opening between 70 million and $ 75 million. The film also gets a boost in the IMAX brushes and other premium format auditoriums.
This would be an important start to what could be described as a new franchise (although most heroes “Thunderbolts *” have already made their debut in other entrances to Marvel cinematographic universes). But it demonstrates the decreased event status of Marvel Studios at the box office. If the projections are held, the new version will win one of the lower openings of the MCU. He will also fall below the opening of “Black Widow” (80 million dollars), which will showcase the original Avenger Scarlett Johansson and introduced the stars of “Thunderbolts *” Florence Pugh and David Harbour, as well as “Guardians of the Galaxy” ($ 94 million), another set of committees that A team of heroes.
Regarding recent people, “Thunderbolts *” is behind the previous release of Disney, “Captain America: Brave New World”, which flew to an opening day of $ 40.9 million in February, on the way for 88 million dollars of three days. This film had more brand recognition with the nickname “Captain America”, but also bad reviews and an approximate reception of fans. He finished his race with a meager multiplier of 2.2x, ending at 200 million dollars in North America.
Hope for Marvel is that “Thunderbolts *” can open smaller, but will remain much stronger. The comic book brand has attracted some of its most positive criticisms for some time for this new entry. The public is also positive, with the score of movie survey cinema which transforms a note “A-“-compare this to the “B-” MCU-LOW won by “Brave New World”. At a production cost of $ 180 million, plus an additional $ 100 million to market and distribute, “Thunderbolts *” must resonate worldwide and show a significant stay of stay to turn a profit in theaters.
With Pugh and Harbor, “Thunderbolts *” also features Marvel Stan Stan, as well as Wyatt Russell, Hannah John-Kamen, Lewis Pullman and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Jake Schreier directs.
Falling in second place, “Sinners” had another excellent taking on Friday, adding an additional $ 9.5 million, down 27% compared to its daily total a week ago. Warner Bros.’s film. has lost Imax and the most high-end large-format auditoriums at “Thunderbolts *” this weekend (although it returns to select the IMAX locations in mid-May). But even losing this increase in luxury ticket income, some rivals have the film down 25% in his third weekend.
Ryan Coogler’s vampire thriller has shown a certain historic power since its beginnings two weeks ago, already more than tripled its opening weekend of $ 48 million. At this rate, “Sinners” will soon pass “Captain America: Brave New World” to become the second north American outing of 2025.
Warner Bros. Also gets third place with “A Minecraft Movie”, still drawing a crowd in its fifth weekend of exit. Legendary entertainment production won an additional $ 3.1 million on Friday (down 42%) to bring its total internal gross to $ 387.6 million. In the coming days, the adaptation of the video game of Mojang Juggernaut will exceed an inner crude of $ 400 million and will crack the 50 best domestic domestic people of all time. Warner Bros. Also developed the film this weekend with new “Block Party Edition” projections, where viewers are encouraged to sing and parrot of the internet memes on the screen for a more interactive experience. (This comes after some cinemas have published warnings against “howl” and “participate in Tiktok trends” after particularly rowdy opening weekend projections.)
The fourth place goes to “The Lentenant 2”, winning $ 2.6 million again on Friday. The Amazon MGM version plans a second weekend of $ 9.8 million, down 60% compared to its opening weekend. This makes the pace behind the original “accountant” of 2016 of around 11% – it is not an ideal result since it costs much more to a production budget of $ 80 million. Due to its main video subscribers (and many other commercial interests outside of entertainment), Amazon probably cares less about theatrical brushes than most traditional studios. But it is worth it to be considered if society thought that “the accountant 2” would be a greater theatrical draw than that.
“Until Dawn” completes the first five, winning $ 1.1 million on Friday. The release of Sony Horror provides $ 3.6 million for its second weekend, which will mark a decrease of 55% compared to its opening.
The opening also this weekend, the road attractions and Lionsgate have the thriller of Nicolas Cage “The Surfer” in 884 places. The film won $ 320,000 on Friday and will have trouble making its debut in the top 10.
