Thor: Love And Thunder Endures One Of The Worst Second-Week Drops In The MCU

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Thor: Love and Thunder may be hitting some enviable financial targets, but despite another solid weekend at the box office, Taika Waititi's second MCU film met a substantial drop-off in theaters, even though there was very little competition out there.

During its opening weekend in the United States, Thor: Love and Thunder collected $143 million in revenue adding up to a grand total of $302 million worldwide, thus beating the commercial performance of the three previous movies starring Thor Odinson. Nevertheless, since its premiere, Thor: Love and Thunder has come across an unusually mixed reception, both among critics and fans who feel the film simply doesn’t hold up to Thor: Ragnarok.

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Apparently, that’s beginning to show at the box office too, as Thor: Love and Thunder's second weekend sees Thor experience a 68% decline among moviegoers. While this is a common figure for practically any film, the impact of Thor: Love and Thunder's second-weekend drop might be a bit more dramatic due to how the film’s earnings stack up versus the latest two Marvel Studios hits, Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. In its second round in American theaters, Thor generated $46 million going up against newcomers Where the Crawdads Sing and Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, as well as Minions: The Rise of Gru.

Comparatively speaking, Spider-Man: No Way Home earned $260M during its opening weekend, one of the best ever, while the Doctor Strange sequel raked in $452.4M worldwide ($187.4M USA and Canada). That said, Spider-Man managed to maintain interest for quite a long time as the top film at the box office for several weeks. Just likeBlack Widow, which also