‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3’ Ganging Up On ‘Super Mario Bros’ With $250M+ Global Start – Box Office Preview
02.05.2023 - 20:51
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Filmmaker James Gunn’s Marvel Studios swan song, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, is blasting off this weekend, the de facto start of the summer box office, with an eye at $250M worldwide. Of that $110M is coming from domestic, and $140M from overseas.
Wrinkling some box office sources brows is how the threequel’s start is poised to be off Vol 2‘s U.S./Canada opening high of $146.5M back in 2017. Before we scream threequelitis, which most superhero movies possess Teflon against, let’s allow this latest Marvel sequel to play out. Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 3 has the longest-running time in the trilogy at 2 hours and 30 minutes, and currently has the lowest (yet solid) reviews at 78% fresh (versus 85% certified fresh on Vol. 2 and 92% certified fresh on the original 2014 title). Since reviews hit last week for GOTG3, advance ticket sales have been growing. Still, tracking is always wobbly when it comes to predicting the strength of $100M+ openers and at the end of the day, not many studios can lay claim to them. GOTG3 ‘s expected $100M+ opening will mark the sixth one for Marvel Studios post-pandemic.
While the pic is hot with all demos, we hear that GOTG leans a tad female given main star Chris Pratt.
Advance tickets sales for GOTG3 are pacing currently at $26M and building. Last year at this time, Marvel Studio’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness had $60M in presales before charting the post-pandemic’s second best opening stateside behind Spider-Man: No Way Home ($260.1M) with $187.4M.
There’s an Imax Wednesday night preview of GOTG3 in 100 theaters, which also feature the previous other two films. That cash will be folded into the Thursday night 3PM preview. Regular Thursday previews begin at 3PM. GOTG2
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