The tentpole drought, created by the pandemic’s post-production logjam, is officially over this weekend as Disney and Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania opens the flood gates on what is a consisted flow of event movies from this Friday until early September.
Early tracking four weeks ago indicated $120M in U.S./Canada over 4-days for the Presidents Day holiday. Disney is hoping for at least $95M over 3-days, $105M-$110M over four at 4,300 theaters — nonetheless a franchise record start and a great 25% surge from the 3-day opning of 2018’s Ant-Man and the Wasp‘s $75.8M.
As is standard, there are no other frosh wide releases from rival studios. With the Peyton Reed-directed threequel starting its offshore start on Wednesday, overseas is around $160M for a global start of $280M (that includes $35M-$55M from China).
Tracking remains slightly unpredictable for big films even as the pandemic has eased, however, with Jonathan Majors new mega-MCU villain Kang the Conqueror making his big screen debut after his variant’s introduction in the Marvel/Disney+ series Loki, that could truly create a stampede of walk-up business this coming weekend.
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