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 complete to slightly over $167 million. But that’s just about the place the excellent news ends for Marvel, because the movie’s weekend-to-weekend drop was 69.7 % — 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 % simply final yr.)
There are just a few potential causes for the movie’s excessive decline. While Quantumania opened strongly final weekend — and in reality had the largest opening weekend for any of the three Ant-Man movies — it obtained poor opinions (at the moment the second-worst in MCU historical past, barely, with a 48 % on Rotten Tomatoes, in comparison with Eternals’ 47 %). It has additionally obtained a low “B” score from paying prospects polled by CinemaScore, which additionally ranks among the many worst in the historical past of the MCU.
The movie additionally obtained proverbially mauled by Cocaine Bear, which grossed a powerful and shocking $23 million in its opening weekend, and virtually definitely diverted some potential prospects away from Quantumania. The darkish crime comedy benefited from an outlandish premise and a catchy title — and, shockingly, a lot better opinions than Quantumania. (Cocaine Bear is at the moment holding with a 71 % on Rotten Tomatoes.)
It might also be that extra informal Marvel followers have determined that particularly in a case the place the movie will get so-so opinions 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. Either means, this isn’t an important begin for Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or using Kang the Conqueror as Marvel’s massive new dangerous man.
The subsequent Marvel Cinematic Universe film, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is scheduled to open in theaters on May 5, 2023.
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