This past weekend, it made about $10 million. That’s a decline of 77 percent from its opening weekend, the worst drop in the MCU thus far. It’s not unusual for comic-book movies to be frontloaded. But even megahits like Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, which made $257 million and $357 million, respectively, in their openings, declined less sharply than that in their second weekends. At this rate, The Marvels won’t just fail to make what these movies made in their opening weekends; it will fail to reach the $153 million Captain Marvel made in its 2019 opening weekend.
[Get ready for a lot of whining about sexism and the patriarchy, but the same audiences thundered to ‘Wonder Woman’ and even its inferior sequel. The issue is ‘inferior,’ not sexism. The MCU is way too clichéd, and now it doesn’t even rely on story as much as virtue signaling. ‘Barbie’ did both this summer and came out gangbusters, which makes the mediocrity of the MCU even more starkly (heh) apparent. — Ed]
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