‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3’: James Gunn’s Last Ride At Marvel, At No. 9, Is Disney’s Only Pic In Deadline’s 2023 Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament
26.04.2024 - 23:47
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Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the advertisement for a movie’s longevity in subsequent home entertainment windows. Entering the conversation in 2023 were the streamers, such as Apple, who have also realized the necessity of theatrical to eventize their movies. The financial data pulled together here for Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament is culled by seasoned and trusted sources.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Disney/Marvel Studios
Hindsight is 20/20 when it comes to the success of Disney/Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. The movie repped James Gunn’s final ride with Marvel Studios as the filmmaker took on the co-chief role at Warner Bros’ DC Studios; in fact, he did press for this film while running DC last summer. At the time, many feared superhero fatigue as GOTG 3 opened domestically to $118.4 million, which for a film kickstarting the summer during the first weekend of May was one of the lower totals — just north of Sony’s first Spider-Man movie in 2002 (the first movie ever to open north of $100M, and the film that started the superhero millennium blaze). Also heavy on the mind was that the domestic start was 37% off from the opening of 2022’s summer starter Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ($187.4M). Global opening for GOTG 3 was $282M.
Yet while Marvel Studios went into freefall with The Marvels in November, repping the lowest opening ever in the Disney MCU at $46.1M (and fueling Disney CEO Bob Iger’s new
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