Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ Zooming to Big $110M-$120M Box Office Opening

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ Zooming to Big $110M-$120M Box Office Opening

Overview of the film:

“Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” reunites director Peyton Reed with actors Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly. The cast also includes Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jonathan Majors, Kathryn Newton, Bill Murray, Katy O’Brian, William Jackson Harper, James Cutler, and David Dastmalchian.

Box office projections:

The film has already collected $52.6 million overseas, making its global cume to $98.6 million through Friday. And it has already made $46 million from more than 4,300 theaters on its opening day in North America. Despite poor reviews and a tepid audience score, the film is still expected to open at least 30 percent ahead of the last film, with projections of $110-$120 million at the Presidents Day box office, including $100 million for the three days.

Comparison with previous films:

The first Ant-Man movie launched with $57.2 million domestically over its first three-day weekend, the lowest start of any MCU offering, on its way to earning $519.3 million globally. The second film, “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” started off with $75.8 million in North America before topping out at $622.7 million worldwide. The preview earnings for the two films were $6 million and $12 million, respectively.

Critics and audience reviews:

One challenge for Quantumania is its low score on Rotten Tomatoes, with a Tomatometer score of 48 percent, the second-worst of any film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe behind Eternals (47 percent). The audience score is also not as high as the previous two films, with a B CinemaScore, compared to A for the first Ant-Man and A- for the second. Generally speaking, male-skewing superhero movies are more immune to bad reviews than other genres.

3D push:

Ant-Man 3 is making a huge 3D push following the success of Avatar: The Way of Water and a 3D remastered edition of Titanic. The upcharge for the format could result in a bump in the mid- to high teens for Quantumania. And overall, Imax and other premium-format screens accounted for a huge 43 percent of Friday’s business.

Conclusion:

So that’s it for our video on the buzz surrounding the release of “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania”. The film is off to a great start in the box office, despite poor reviews and audience scores, and is expected to make a franchise-best domestic debut. Will it be able to surpass the success of the previous films in the franchise? Only time will tell.