‘The Marvels’ Becomes the Lowest-Earning CBM Ever with $160M Worldwide

‘The Marvels‘ earned around $10.2M this weekend from 4,030 locations, bringing the domestic total to an estimated $65.02M. Internationally, the film grossed about $19.5M, making the global total reach an estimated $161.3M, with the international total standing at $96.3M.

‘The Marvels’ Second Weekend Drop Hits a Record -77.9%, Making It the Worst Ever for a Comic Book Movie (CBM)

‘The Marvels’ experienced an unprecedented -77.9% drop during its second weekend domestically, marking the worst decline ever for a comic book movie (CBM). In contrast, ‘Morbius‘ saw a -73.8% drop, and ‘The Flash‘ had a -72.5% decrease. Notably, ‘The Marvels’ carried a substantial $270M budget.

Estimated Weekend Box Office Top 7 for Nov. 17 – Nov. 19, 2023:

1. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes – $44.00M
2. Trolls Band Together – $30.60M / $31.77M
3. Thanksgiving – $10.20M
4. The Marvels – $10.20M
5. Five Nights at Freddy’s – $3.50M
6. The Holdovers – $2.70M
7. Next Goal Wins – $2.50M

‘The Marvels’ received positive reviews with a 62% Tomatometer score and an 85% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes. IMDb rates it at 6.1/10, and it earned a CinemaScore of B during its debut, indicating a good response from audiences.

Directed by Nia DaCosta, the film also holds the record of being the most expensive movie ever directed by a black woman, surpassing Ava DuVernay’s ‘A Wrinkle In Time’. The film stars Brie Larson as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel, Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau, and Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Park Seo-joon, Zawe Ashton, Saagar Shaikh, Zenobia Shroff, and Mohan Kapur. The film also brings back Goose, the Flerken.

In The Marvels, Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. But unintended consequences see Carol shouldering the burden of a destabilized universe. When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers become entangled with that of Jersey City super-fan Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, and Carol’s estranged niece, now S.A.B.E.R. astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau. Together, this unlikely trio must team up and learn to work in concert to save the universe as “The Marvels.”

‘The Marvels’ is now playing in theaters.

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