Everett Group
“The Marvels” is poised to take off at the box office, but it won’t skyrocket like its predecessor “Captain Marvel” and many Marvel Cinematic Universe films like it.
The latest MCU adventure grossed $6.6 million in previews at the box office. The Marvels movie is expected to gross between $60 and $65 million when it opens this weekend. It’s a far cry from Brie Larson’s first MCU outing as Captain Marvel, which opened to $153 million in 2019 from $20.7 million in Thursday previews. That film, which eventually crossed the $1 billion mark, had the added bonus of releasing between “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame” and was the first MCU film to be led by a woman.
The “Captain Marvel” sequel is also expected to be lower than the previous two Marvel films of the year, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” which grossed $104 million and $118 million. In its opening succession. Each grossed $17.5 million in Thursday previews.
The only MCU films to have lower weekends than “The Marvels” projections were 2008’s “Incredible Hulk” ($55.4 million) and 2015’s “Ant-Man” ($57.2 million), not adjusted for inflation. This could pose a problem for The Marvels movie, which cost $220 million to produce and about $100 million to promote. At the international box office, it is estimated to gross $80 million for a global debut of $140 million or more.
Larson returns in The Marvels, which co-stars Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau, and Iman Vellani as the young heroine Ms. Marvel. Paris and Villani begin their roles on the Disney+ shows “WandaVision” and “Ms. Marvel,” respectively, making “The Marvels” their characters’ first appearance on the big screen. The trio of women unite to battle the newest villain threatening the world Dar Ben (Zawe Ashton), who has the power to tear holes in the fabric of space and time.
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