Hulk loses worst box office record to The Marvels • DOL

The new film from Marvel Studios and Disney, “The Marvels”, which brings together three superheroes, had the worst debut in history among the productions of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with an estimated revenue of 47 million US dollars at the US box office.

In its global debut, the film grossed US$110.3 million, below expectations in the 51 markets in which it opened.

With a low US box office, the production held the record for the lowest opening for The Incredible Hulk, as of 2008, which grossed US$55.4 million, without adjusting for inflation – Marvel, which was not owned by Disney in 2008. At the time, it entered In partnership with Universal for Hulk. Another MCU debut was Marvel-Disney’s “Ant-Man,” which grossed $57.2 million in the United States when it debuted in 2015.

In analyzes conducted by specialist companies in the United States, such as Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, the film was actually expected to perform poorly. Marvel has released nine films since the start of the pandemic and none of them have reached the billion mark, fueling the theory that there is “superhero fatigue.”

The premiere weekend scene doesn’t come close to cinemas packed with people dressed up to watch movies like “Avengers: Endgame” (2019) and “Spider-Man: No Way Home” (2021), which were also betting on the union of different superheroes. .

Even pressure for interviews as the Hollywood actors’ strike ended this week was unsuccessful. Brie Larson, one of the leads, appeared on The Tonight Show on Friday and on stage in New York.

The $200 million blockbuster is a sequel to 2019’s Captain Marvel, starring Larson, which opened to $153.4 million in North America and had a global box office total of $1.13 billion, without adjusting for inflation.

In the new film, the powerful Captain Marvel joins forces with the forces of Muslim teenager Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani, star of Ms. Marvel) and her niece Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris). Together they need to defeat Bar-Denn, a villain searching for an ancient artifact capable of directing and deflecting energy rays.

“The Marvels” received a B rating from audiences, while previously only “Eternals” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” received a low score. Most versions of the so-called MCU, in its English abbreviation, received some variation of A.