It’s the first full weekend of July, but it looks like the summer’s top openers will all have opened prior to Independence Day.
The last real shot at another $100 million+ opening was this weekend’s “The Ant-Man and the Wasp,” the fourth Marvel release in five months.
It ended up with a decent but not spectacular $76 million.That would make it the lowest Marvel opener of the year, the first not to pass $100 million, and a gross below the disappointing start for “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” It’s lower than the last 10 Marvel opening weekends.
(“X-Men: Apocalypse” just over two years ago the last disappointing result.)So is this a problem? Context matters, and what’s relevant here is this is a sequel to a Marvel sub-franchise.
The first “Ant-Man” opened mid-July to an adjusted total of $63 million, so this is about a 20 percent improvement.Though this
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