BOX-OFFICE potential in the Multiverse of Madness

[TheVileOne]

Audience score on RT are coming in just under 90%. This thing is critic proof. Not much strong competition coming out in May either until Top Gun Maverick. Disney learned their lesson from the horrible decision to put Black Widow on premier access at the same time as the theater release. The pandemic for all intents and purposes is over. This is also the first May release for Marvel since Guardians Vol 2. They moved both IW and Endgame a week up in April. I feel the mojo is working again for that first May weekend release.

It's not really getting bad reviews from critics, you know? A little bit mixed, but they are largely positive.

I think a better example would Eternals still making over $164 million domestic and over $400 million worldwide in a global pandemic despite getting fairly bad reviews of the MCU being critic proof.

 

[Mysteryman]

It's not really getting bad reviews from critics, you know? A little bit mixed, but they are largely positive.

I think a better example would Eternals still making over $164 million domestic and over $400 million worldwide in a global pandemic despite getting fairly bad reviews of the MCU being critic proof.

It is good to see someone acknowledge that Eternals wasn't a Box Office Dumpster Fire.
It could have been, FAR WORSE!

 

[TheVileOne]

It is good to see someone acknowledge that Eternals wasn't a Box Office Dumpster Fire.
It could have been, FAR WORSE!

Most definitely.

I didn't like Eternals, but I'm capable of taking an in-depth look at things. To say the film bombed would be a misnomer. Considering it's the first MCU movie to get a RT score that low and it came out during the pandemic it still did very well. People were predicting Shang-Chi would bomb as well, and it got great reviews and did very well at the box office considering box office hadn't fully recovered yet during pandemic.

 

[psylockolussus]

It is good to see someone acknowledge that Eternals wasn't a Box Office Dumpster Fire.
It could have been, FAR WORSE!

It was a boX office hit!

 

[Webfoot Hero]

With a B+ CinemaScore, it'll be interesting to see what the film's legs will be now.

 

[psylockolussus]

It won't drop big. May is lacking of big movies and this will only help the film.

 

[Webfoot Hero]

It won't drop big. May is lacking of big movies and this will only help the film.

I'd say $1 billion may be a struggle now.

 

[HammerDown]

The Avengers: A+
Black Panther: A+
Avengers: Endgame: A+
Spider-Man: No Way Home: A+

Iron Man 3: A
Iron Man: A
Iron Man 2: A
Ant-Man: A
Captain America: Civil War: A
Doctor Strange: A
Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2: A
Spider-Man: Homecoming: A
Thor: Ragnarok: A
Captain America: The Winter Soldier: A
Guardians of the Galaxy: A
Avengers: Age of Ultron: A
Avengers: Infinity War: A
Captain Marvel: A
Spider-Man: Far From Home: A
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: A

The Incredible Hulk: A-
Captain America: The First Avenger: A-
Thor: The Dark World: A-
Ant-Man and the Wasp: A-
Black Widow: A-

Thor: B+
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: B+

Eternals: B

 

[HammerDown]

With a B+ CinemaScore, it'll be interesting to see what the film's legs will be now.

I'd say $1 billion may be a struggle now.

Yeh the score doesn’t bode well for the word of mouth and box office results.

 

[psylockolussus]

I'd say $1 billion may be a struggle now.

Even if it fails to hit $1 billion mark, it doesn't mean it would have huge drops. there isn't a blockbuster coming out in its 2nd/3rd weekend.

also cinemascore, is only for North America.

 

[HammerDown]

Weekend BO numbers coming in for DS:MOM and extra data for comparison.

Thursday Previews
Spider-Man: NWH - 50M
Doctor Strange: MOM - 36M
Avengers: AOU - 27.6M
———//———
Friday (* Thursday Previews Included)
Spider-Man: NWH - 121M
Doctor Strange: MOM - “91M”
Avengers: AOU - 84M

Saturday
Spider-Man: NWH - 73M
Doctor Strange: MOM - ?
Avengers: AOU - 56M

Sunday
Spider-Man: NWH - 64M
Doctor Strange: MOM - ?
Avengers: AOU - 50M

Opening Weekend
Spider-Man: NWH - 260M
Avengers: AOU - 191M
Doctor Strange: MOM - ?

 

[Iceman]

Box Office: ‘Doctor Strange 2’ Fires Up With $36 Million In Previews – Deadline

From above seems to be looking at an 85m opening Friday and 190/200m weekend, 180m if demand dies off during the weekend.

 

[Webfoot Hero]

Even if it fails to hit $1 billion mark, it doesn't mean it would have huge drops. there isn't a blockbuster coming out in its 2nd/3rd weekend.

also cinemascore, is only for North America.

If it comes in just under a billion, it'll likely be because of the bad CinemaScore and not having a few of the territories it was banned in (namely China.)

 

[HammerDown]

Box Office: ‘Doctor Strange 2’ Fires Up With $36 Million In Previews – Deadline

From above seems to be looking at an 85m opening Friday and 190/200m weekend, 180m if demand dies off during the weekend.

Weekend projections continue to be wild. Many believe Doctor Strange 2 has a shot at $190M-$200M, but if frontloaded ticket sales set in, then we could be looking more at a $180M 3-day.

 

[Holy Slapper]

If it comes in just under a billion, it'll likely be because of the bad CinemaScore and not having a few of the territories it was banned in (namely China.)

Since when is B+ bad?

 

[OroroGambitFan]

I can’t envision a scenario where this doesn’t hit a billion , reviews and scores won’t impact that in the least bit— sure they may impact it getting further beyond that and doing insane numbers but hitting a billion, nope it won’t stop that IMO. Guess we’ll see shortly if I’m right as the coming wks will tell the story.

 

[OroroGambitFan]

The Saturday numbers should be interesting— thought they’d be out already??? Don’t see em yet.

 

[InCali]

A true 55M Friday is definitely on the high side of where I thought it would be. I was looking at more like 45 - 50M. We'll see what the Saturday hold is, but 180-190 is looking like the low side now and about where I thought it would be. I was thinking about 185 if I remember correctly.

 

[TheVileOne]

Just an FYI, the first Doctor Strange movie made $677 million worldwide and $232 million domestic. That's also with China, which this movie will reportedly not have.

 

[TheVileOne]

Since when is B+ bad?

I've said before that CinemaScore's grading system is a joke. If you get a B+ in school, that's an above-average score. It's a system that's not always reliable either. At least from what I've seen. It's not accurate.

 

[Mysteryman]

Just an FYI, the first Doctor Strange movie made $677 million worldwide and $232 million domestic. That's also with China, which this movie will reportedly not have.

This is an important point.
Not having China changes things.

 

[kguillou]

Didnt Joker get like a B cinemascore also? That didnt hurt its word of mouth at all l

 

[Erzengel]

BvS and Eternals got a B.

Fant4stic got a C-.

 

[Mysteryman]

I've said before that CinemaScore's grading system is a joke. If you get a B+ in school, that's an above-average score. It's a system that's not always reliable either. At least from what I've seen. It's not accurate.

Plus, I know, it's not technically MCU, but Morbius got a C+ Cinemascore.

 

[Mysteryman]

Deadline is reporting a 90 million Friday opening For Multiverse of Madness, which could lead to an estimated 190 million dollar weekend.