On July 10, Marvel Cinematic Universe’s new film ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ debuted in theaters, pushing Northern America’s weekend box office past $200 million.
Northern America box office statistics website boxofficemojo.com released the latest movie market data on July 10, 24 films in Northern America this weekend box office (July 8 to 10) reported about $ 236 million, up 24% from the previous year.
This is the first time since January 2020 that Northern America’s weekend box office has stayed above $100 million for seven consecutive weekends, and the second time in a month that it has surpassed $200 million. The fantasy adventure action film ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ is the leader of this wave of gains.
The film debuted in Northern America on July 8 and grossed approximately $143 million in three days, accounting for more than 60% of all Northern America’s box office in that statistical period. Together with overseas markets, ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ has now quickly surpassed $300 million at the global box office.
Marvel Cinematic Universe originated in 2008 and is known as “Hollywood’s most powerful money printing machine”, ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ is the 29th film under its framework.
The first ‘Thor’ performed well in 2011, followed by ‘Thor: The Dark World’ and ‘Thor: Ragnarok’, which also increased at the box office, especially “Thor 3” in 2017. Northern America and worldwide box office reached 315 million and 854 million dollars respectively.
Thor: Love and Thunder’, released after nearly five years, is still directed by Taika Waititi, director of “Thor 3”, and features a line-up of five Academy Award winners, including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay. In the five Academy Award winners.
Thor: Love and Thunder’ continues its money-sucking pattern, breaking the record for the best opening of the “Thor” franchise, with a 16% increase in opening weekend box office compared to the previous film.
However, ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ has seen a significant decline in word-of-mouth. Currently, major review sites only rate it at 57 on MTC and 68% on Rotten Tomatoes, compared to 74 and 93% for ‘Thor 3’.
Some viewers said, ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ soundtrack and visual effects are excellent, but the plot is low.
Under the impact of new films, the previous list winner ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’, despite the increase in theaters, but the weekend box office fell 57.4%, with about $ 4.55 million relegated to No. 2 in this round of rankings.
The animated film Northern America has grossed more than $200 million and nearly $400 million worldwide.
‘Top Gun: Maverick’ followed closely behind, retreating to No. 3 in the round rankings with about $15.5 million in weekend ticket sales.
The 7-week-old action-drama Northern America has grossed $597 million and approximately $1.184 billion worldwide.
The industry expects that ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ will be in the top 10 of the Northern America box office charts ever.
In addition, the musical biographical drama ‘Elvis’ retired to No. 4 on this period’s list with about $11 million at the weekend box office and has grossed about $155 million worldwide so far.
The sci-fi adventure action film ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ dropped to No. 5 at the weekend box office with about $8.41 million and has grossed about $876 million worldwide so far.
It is worth noting that ‘Marcel the Shell with Shoes On’, which opened in small theaters on June 24, has only a double-digit number of theaters to collect about $340,000 at the weekend box office, rising to No. 8 on the list, which is the film with the fewest number of theaters in this round of the top 10 weekend box office.
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On’ has a 99% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and it will be released in wide release on July 15.
In the new week, the animated film ‘The Deer King’ will have a small release on July 13; the thriller drama ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’, based on the best-selling suspense novel, and the animated comedy ‘Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank’ will open in theaters on the 15th.
Related Post: Marvel Studios Japan shares ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Japanese comic style promotional poster.
