‘Doctor Strange 2’ Summons a Jaw-Dropping $200 Million-Plus Box Office Opening
07.05.2022 - 18:53
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” is now within reach of a benchmark that box office analysts were only whispering about before its release: a $200 million-plus opening. After earning a jaw-dropping $90 million on opening day, including $36 million from Thursday previews, the 28th Marvel Cinematic Universe film is now projected by industry estimates to earn a $202 million weekend launch.
Disney is keeping its projections dialed down a bit at $170-185 million, but a final weekend total on the upper end of projections would match the start of fellow MCU film “Black Panther” in 2018. Regardless of how Saturday and Sunday play out, this sequel’s opening day total alone eclipses the opening weekends of 10 MCU films, including the $85 million opening of the first “Doctor Strange” in 2016.
And of course, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” is now 2022’s best opening weekend, blowing past the $134 million opening of “The Batman.” If it meets industry estimates, “Doctor Strange 2” will become the ninth film in box office history and the sixth from Marvel Studios to beat the $200 million opening mark in the U.S. and Canada, doing so less than six months after the film that set it up, “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” did so with a $260 million launch last December.
The one possible cause for concern is that critical and audience reception, while still positive, isn’t as overwhelmingly effusive as what “No Way Home” got. The film received a B+ on CinemaScore, joining “Thor” and “Eternals” as only the third MCU film to not receive an A or A- from the opening night audience poll, with Rotten Tomatoes scores standing at 76% critics and 88% audience.
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