Maybe, just maybe, there is hope for the future of cinema.
As domestic box office returns for this weekend have begun trickling in, two things have become abundantly clear: “Marvel fatigue” is real, and Hollywood is seriously discounting the value of Christian moviegoers.
To the first point, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s latest flick, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” released to the masses Feb. 17 to quite a bit of hype and success.
After all, this is the inaugural film of Marvel’s much-ballyhooed “Phase 5,” which will lead into “Phase 6,” which is capped off with a pair of much-anticipated “Avengers” movies slated for 2025 and 2026.
And the initial returns reflected that, as “Quantumania” blew past its predecessor (“Ant-Man and the Wasp”) in terms of opening domestic weekend box office returns. “Quantumania” garnered $105.5 million its opening weekend, per Variety, which easily surpasses the $75 million that “Ant-Man and the Wasp” did. The original Ant-Man film released in 2015 did $58 million its opening weekend, per Deadline.
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— Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (@AntMan) February 6, 2023
But then something curious happened heading into the second weekend of the latest Marvel movie’s theatrical run: A historic drop-off.
First, the glimmer of good news for Marvel and Disney, Marvel’s parent company: “Quantumania” should still handily win this weekend’s box office totals.
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But that historic drop-off is hard to ignore and sours whatever positive spin you can glean from the previous paragraph.
“Quantumania” is slated to still do $30 million to $32 million in box office returns this weekend, according to Deadline, and while that figure is one that many studios would kill for, it still represents a roughly 70 percent drop from its opening weekend numbers.
According to Variety, only one film in history has ever raked in over $100 million in its opening weekend, only to suffer a 70 percent drop — “Harry Potter…
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