The mixed reception to Marvel Studios’ “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” is taking a greater toll on its box office than anticipated.
The film grossed just $8.2 million on its second Friday — a colossal 82% drop from its $46.4 million opening day — and its weekend total is projected to drop 71% from $106 million last weekend to $30 million this weekend.If that number holds, “Quantumania” will have suffered the largest second weekend percentage drop of any Marvel Studios release and any superhero film with a domestic opening weekend of over $100 million.While hardcore fans turned out as they reliably do on opening weekend and have boosted the film’s audience Rotten Tomatoes score to 84%, the B CinemaScore grade and 3.5/5 PostTrak score suggested that casual audience interest would drop as it did for DC’s “Black Adam” last year.
But these weekend totals are below the $35-38 million that analysts had predicted and suggest that “Quantumania
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