Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Tracking To Open With $300 Million Worldwide

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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will make its highly anticipated arrival this weekend, looking to jump-start the summer box office. The newest Marvel Studios outing projects to earn $300 million worldwide, which would place the film behind Spider-Man: No Way Home as the second-best box office premiere since the start of the pandemic.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will see the return of Benedict Cumberbatch as the neurosurgeon turned sorcerer, alongside Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff. Olsen was last seen in the Marvel Studios Disney Plus original series WandaVision, where her character officially became the iconic Scarlet Witch. Cumberbatch last appeared in Spider-Man: No Way Home, where his character's botched spell protecting Spider-Man eventually fractured the multiverse, setting the stage for the events in the upcoming film.

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Per Deadline, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness looks to generate between $160 and $180 million at the domestic box office. Internationally, the film projects to earn over $140 million, putting its estimated worldwide total at $300 million. The spirited performance would give the Marvel Studios project the second-best opening weekend debut since the start of the pandemic, behindSpider-Man: No Way Home, which generated $582 million, and ahead of The Batman, which earned $251 million.

Early reviews for the newest Marvel Studios outing have been mixed, calling the film a spectacle with fantastic horror elements crafted by director Sam Raimi. The project currently has a 79% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with an absent audience score that should be updated heading into the