Love & Thunder Box Office Opening Highest Ever For Thor Marvel Movies
Thor: Love and Thunder won the weekend box office with a franchise-best for the Thor films. The fourth film in the Thor franchise and the 29th film in the MCU sees Taika Waititi return to the Thor franchise after the critical and box office success of Thor: Ragnarok. After multiple delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film finally hit theaters in July, a month that Marvel Studios has in the past released films likeCaptain America: The First Avenger, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Spider-Man: Far From Home.
As one of the summer's most anticipated movies, opening weekend projections for Thor: Love and Thunder were as high as $150 million. This made sense as each Thor film has opened bigger than the previous entry, showing both the strength of the MCU and the audience's affinity for the character. In 2011, Thor opened to an impressive $65 million and two years later, Thor: The Dark World grew off the success of both the previous Thor and The Avengers to open with $85 million. It came as a surprise to many when Thor: Ragnarok opened at $122 million back in 2017 as it was the first time the character opened above $100 million, and with Waititi returning to direct Thor: Love and Thunder, Marvel was hoping box office lightning would strike twice.
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According toTHR, Thor: Love and Thunder had a $143 million opening weekend and set a new record for the Thor franchise. These early estimates place it just behind the opening weekend for Jurassic World: Dominion ($145 million), but if it comes out ahead by the time final numbers are counted on Monday, it could give Marvel Studios the three biggest opening weekends of all time since the COVID-19
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