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Box Office: ‘The Marvels’ Gets Grounded With MCU’s Second-Lowest Opening Day Ever

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The Marvels” likely won’t be able to reach even a third of its predecessor’s debut. The comic book film landed the second-lowest opening day gross ever across the 32 features in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, earning $21.5 million from 4,030 venues.

That includes $6.6 million in previews. It barely surpassed 2008’s “The Incredible Hulk,” which holds the record for the MCU’s lowest domestic opening day at $21.46 million, and falls behind series-starter “Ant-Man” ($22.6 million), not adjusted for inflation.If “The Marvels” doesn’t pick up the pace, it will trail behind the opening weekend grosses of both those films ($55.4 million and $55.7 million, respectively) to secure a franchise-worst debut.

Those are some concerning numbers for Marvel Studios. The once bulletproof production banner has earned nearly $30 billion at the box office since 2008, but has faced a downtrend in theatrical returns and various behind-the-scenes headaches in recent years.

Even so, “The Marvels” hitting a superlatively low debut would come as an especially tough sting, given Marvel still scored two sizable openings from “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” ($106 million) and “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

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