Happy times are here again for theaters this weekend with the long-awaited Doctor Strange in the Disney / Marvel Crazy Universe, which will kick off the summer box office season we didn’t have a year ago.
Elizabeth Olson as Wanda Maximoff in Disney’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
The film, which fans expect to be a three-part sequel to the previous Marvel Spider-Man blockbuster: No Way Home (which reveals events with Benedict Cumberbatch’s character) and the Disney + WandaVision and Loki series, is expected to make $ 160 million – a $ 180 million local start. which is the largest edition during the pandemic era in 4,400 theaters, plus another $ 140 million abroad.
It will bring at least $ 300 million worldwide launch, which will be the second best box office debut of the Covid era after $ 582 million at No Way Home WW and ahead of The Batman by $ 251 million WW. Like Batman, Dr. Strange 2 will not have Russia and China on its offshore reservations. In addition, most of the Middle East does not play the Marvel wizard, given the LBGTQ elements in the photo.
Dr. Strange 2 currently has 79% of 115 Rotten Tomatoes reviews to 93% of No Way Home, freshly certified by 410 reviews, and the question that goes into the weekend is how much this Byzantine tale will re-index. Will he play strictly with Marvel fans or will he unite the infidels? Elizabeth Olson’s Wanda Maximoff is seen as a plus in terms of attracting a potentially younger demo woman than the usual MCU title.
Doctor Strange Review in the Multiverse of Madness: Benedict Cumberbatch Works with His Magic in Sam Raimi’s Wonders of Horror
Another selling point for the main fan base: the sequel repeats the return of Sam Raimi to MCU; his last time in the director’s chair was for the original Sony Spider-Man trilogy from 2002-07.
Doctor Strange 2’s pre-sales in the US / Canada are currently $ 60 million, ahead of Warner Bros. $ 42 million for Batman at the same time before its opening in March and behind $ 120 million for No Way Home. However, most of the tickets for Doctor Strange 2 are for Thursday night. So how exactly is this movie loaded?
The Marvel Knight of Marvel
Previews begin Thursday at 3 p.m. in the state, and the sequel is also played in 400 Imax classrooms, 890-plus Premium large screens, 2,600 3D locations, 250 D-Box / 4D motion screens and 60 ScreenX locations .
Thursday night on Batman, less than the mid-week previews, made $ 17.6 million, while No Way Home raised $ 50 million.
This is a fun week for Marvel fans, as the season finale of another multi-universe wizard, Moon Knight, comes out at Disney + at midnight tonight. All eyes are on 3D sharing for Doctor Strange 2, as Disney will release the trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water exclusively in theaters for the first week of filming.
Contrary to the 2016 film, Doctor Strange 2 is simultaneously a global edition, including all offshore markets in its initial package. The action starts in such specialties as France, Japan, Germany, Korea and Italy on Wednesday and adds the United Kingdom, Mexico, Australia, Brazil, Spain and India, among others, until Friday.
A key part of the weekend will be Korea, which has been very soft lately amid caution in returning to the cinemas. The market saw a slight blow to the last frame, which may portend good. It is important to remember that despite the general lull in the market, Korea appeared en masse for Spider-Man: No Way Home, which cut nearly $ 62 million there.
Disney
The Cumberbatch Wizard first worked as a freelancer at the end of October 2016. His debut like this was $ 104 million at today’s prices. This is not the best computer, considering that the MCU expanded after that to include new characters on the big screen – and the flash. Looking at other MCU photos, Thor: Ragnarok opened an offshore price of $ 141 million, and Captain Marvel – the movie between the moments that made it indispensable to watch – made $ 194 million in likes. As for the mega-movies from the pandemic era, Batman recently opened up in likes for $ 117 million abroad.
In the United States, the original Doctor Strange opened up to $ 85 million in 2016 and made a 2.7-fold discount to A CinemaScore for $ 232.6 million nationwide and $ 445.1 million worldwide. Captain Marvel, another competitor in the state, debuted with $ 153.4 million and A CinemaScore and multiplied 2.8 times by $ 426.8 million in the domestic final and $ 1.12 billion worldwide. Note that the last film led to the final Avengers giant, Endgame, hence the long legs.
As a reminder, the top 5 markets for the original Doctor Strange (excluding China and Russia) were Korea ($ 41.3 million), the United Kingdom ($ 28.5 million), Brazil ($ 22.7 million), Germany ($ 17.4 million) and Japan ($ 16.4 million).
Add Comment