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OW $150-200m

posted 3 years ago by Satan2016 (26186)
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Will start at #3 of 2022.

https://deadline.com/2022/05/box-office-doctor-strange-2-bad-guys-1235013663/

If it feels like a desert at the multiplex, get ready for the monsoon on Thursday night, with Disney/Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which is expected to rain down anywhere from $150M-$200M in its first weekend.

Tracking sees it at a minimum of $150M; it wouldn’t be shocking if the pic gets to $200M, but Disney doesn’t want to get over its skis. Already, Doctor Strange 2 is seeing the best presales of the year, higher than The Batman, with $42M. This is all the start of a very rich summer, and after the exuberant response of Top Gun: Maverick out of CinemaCon, Tom Cruise has to be in store for the biggest global and domestic opening of his career, overtaking War of the Worlds ($64.8M, his highest domestic) and The Mummy ($172.3M, the 3x Oscar nominee’s biggest worldwide debut).

[–] Satan2016 (26186) 3 years ago

‘Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness’ To Beguile Start Of Summer With $300M Global Opening
https://deadline.com/2022/05/doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness-box-office-opening-1235015675/

The movie, which fans are anticipating to be a three-pronged sequel to previous Marvel blockbuster Spider-Man: No Way Home (which teed up events with the Benedict Cumberbatch character) and Disney+ series WandaVision and Loki, is eyeing a $160M-$180M domestic start in what is the widest release ever during the pandemic era at 4,400 theaters, plus another $140M+ overseas.

That would yield at least a $300M worldwide start, which would rep the second-best box office debut of the Covid era after No Way Home‘s $582M WW and ahead of The Batman‘s $251M WW. Similar to Batman, Doctor Strange 2 won’t have Russia and China in its offshore bookings. In addition, most of the Middle East isn’t playing the Marvel sorcerer given LBGTQ elements in the pic.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (18420) 3 years ago

It's going to do huge numbers.