Minions 2 hits $178.96M domestic after less than two weeks.
Minions 2 hits $178.96M domestic after less than two weeks.
Yeah...it kinda sucks that Hollywood doesn't listen to the audience. Market saturation is real and if you are going to be "diverse" Everything Everywhere All At Once and Shang Chi proved that it's the Asian communities that are under-served not the female ones. Natalie Portman being box office poison isn't a shocker to me.
While I'm not really catching the Marvel movies in theaters anymore, Love & Thunder was one I decided after the first trailer I was not going to see. It looked to me to be doubling down on Ragnarok, which I happened to enjoy and think is the best Thor movie (not a high bar, though). The problem I foresaw, correctly it seems, is they amped it up too much and truly "doubled down" so to speak. Meaning, they made it goofier, added even more jokes, etc.
At some point we all need to ask when enough is enough? Ragnarok balanced things for the most part. Most part. But with Love & Thunder I've now read too many critic and audience reviews that say it's just too much and reaches the point of parody.
Disney deserves this flop if it ends up being one. I doubt it, though. People are eating up just about everything Disney puts out right now.
There are a lot of people putting completely impossible and unrealistic expectations to these box office numbers. The last two MCU movies Spider-man and Strange made almost 3 billion worldwide. Strange didn't get released in China or Russia and made 411 million domestic which is top 10 for a CBM all time. Thor is opening higher than the last Thor. WTF do people want?
Thor just clocked in at 143 million.
I'm not yet sure how it ranks.
Strange was higher and I think JW did $142m opening weekend. I can't remember how much Top Gun opened with at all (that film is at $597m domestic...wow).
But domestically Thor's opening puts it as the 9th highest-grossing movie of the year already.