For the second straight week, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania dominated the weekend field workplace chart, grossing $32.2 million and bringing its ten-day home whole to somewhat over $167 million. However that’s just about the place the excellent news ends for Marvel, because the movie’s weekend-to-weekend drop was 69.7 p.c — which represents a file worst second-weekend decline for any Marvel Cinematic Universe film in historical past. (The earlier worst drop in MCU historical past was Thor: Love and Thunder’s 67.7 p.c simply final 12 months.)
There are just a few potential causes for the movie’s excessive decline. Whereas Quantumania opened strongly final weekend — and actually had the most important opening weekend for any of the three Ant-Man movies — it bought poor evaluations (at the moment the second-worst in MCU historical past, barely, with a 48 p.c on Rotten Tomatoes, in comparison with Eternals’ 47 p.c). It has additionally obtained a low “B” ranking from paying clients polled by CinemaScore, which additionally ranks among the many worst within the historical past of the MCU.
The movie additionally bought proverbially mauled by Cocaine Bear, which grossed a powerful and shocking $23 million in its opening weekend, and virtually definitely diverted some potential clients away from Quantumania. The darkish crime comedy benefited from an outlandish premise and a catchy title — and, shockingly, significantly better evaluations than Quantumania. (Cocaine Bear is at the moment holding with a 71 p.c on Rotten Tomatoes.)
It could even be that extra informal Marvel followers have determined that particularly in a case the place the movie will get so-so evaluations and word-of-mouth like Quantumania, they can simply wait to see it on Disney+ — and with Disney premiering most of their blockbusters on streaming just a few months after they’re in theaters, it’s not even that lengthy of a wait. Both means, this isn’t a fantastic begin for Part 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or the usage of Kang the Conqueror as Marvel’s massive new dangerous man.
The following Marvel Cinematic Universe film, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is scheduled to open in theaters on Could 5, 2023.
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