Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts*

[Disney Irish]

Just two data points, but Tuesday and Wednesday this week were both larger domestically than the same days for Brave New World or Quantumania (not high bars, I know), despite the lower opening, so it's on early pace to recover to somewhere north of $200m.

It'll be interesting to see what this second weekend looks like. Those movies did $32m (Quantumania) and $28m (BNW), so that would be what to watch against. BoxOfficeReport (to cite one prediction) is thinking this will do $36.5m.

I certainly don't think $120-130M by the end of the weekend is too hard a metric to hit considering where it it right now. That would basically keep pace with Cap4 domestically, even if slightly beyond in actuals.

 

[Phicinfan]

Saw this again and I’m not on the fence anymore - this is a top 5 MCU film. And no, I’m not always positive about Marvel - I stopped watching Eternals and Quantumania because they were bad and have never bothered to watch Thor 4.

I agree on the rating of Thunderbolts! I haven’t had that much fun watching a marvel movie in quite a while! Great story arc, character builds, humor and facing a huge current social issue of depression. Just saw it today and LoVE this movie

 

[MrPromey]

“I know this doesn’t mean much but I’m going to pretend it means everything.” All one sentence.

Have you seen the movie?

From a ticket sales perspective, I'm not sure it matters. Seems like a lot of other people haven't seen it and that's the problem.

Personally, I liked it a lot. I think it's the best Marvel movie since Endgame that didn't have a spider in it but they've failed to get butts in the seat for it and that's what most of this discussion is about, right?

I went Saturday opening weekend to see it in RPX 3D (Regal's knockoff Imax which includes the "butt kicker" seats I'll never get tired of saying the name of) and out of that entire theater - the largest in the complex - there were seven people (my son and I included) for the only showing of the day that had it in the most premium format of both RPX and 3D.

There were plenty of people in line for concessions. They just weren't in our theater.

Sadly, the movie can be good and still not do good. I feel like that's what is happening here.

They'll probably make it back in whatever they charge themselves to run it on Disney+ and maybe it'll find a larger audience there that'll encourage them for future movies with these characters but from what I'm understanding, the next movie they're in will have a bunch of other known characters, too, so maybe it doesn't even matter.

 

[Disney Analyst]

Saw this tonight, sold out showing due to a Wednesday movie deal. Fantastic movie!

 

[MisterPenguin]

'Thunderbolts*' Strikes No. 1 on Disc Sales Charts - Media Play News

Disney-owned Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* debuted at No. 1 on the Circana VideoScan chart, which tracks combined DVD and Blu-ray Disc unit sales, and the dedicated Blu-ray Disc chart the week ended Aug. 2. The film assembles an unconventional team of disillusioned castoffs whose survival...

www.mediaplaynews.com

 

[MarvelCharacterNerd]

BUT WHEN IS IT STREAMING ON DISNEY+?!?!

 

[Phroobar]

DVD exclusive.

 

[DCBaker]

BUT WHEN IS IT STREAMING ON DISNEY+?!?!

August 27:

 

[Phroobar]

August 27:

For a minute I thought Greedo was one of the Thunderbolts*.

 

[MarvelCharacterNerd]

Awesome - now I have to decide if I'm canceling Disney+ at the end of this month after I see Thunderbolts or give it one more month to catch a few Halloween treats lol since at this rate F4 won't show up until Christmas.

 

[Hawkeye_2018]

F4 will drop Thanksgiving week at the earliest

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

My GF and I watched this on a flight the other day and really enjoyed it, arguably our favorite Marvel movie since endgame, we both had a similar thought… that it’s too bad it didn’t come out a couple years ago while the Marvel name was still a big draw, could have been a big hit had more people given it a chance.

 

[Agent H]

Yelana is officially now one of my top 10 mcu characters.

 

[DKampy]

My GF and I watched this on a flight the other day and really enjoyed it, arguably our favorite Marvel movie since endgame, we both had a similar thought… that it’s too bad it didn’t come out a couple years ago while the Marvel name was still a big draw, could have been a big hit had more people given it a chance.

Which is why I believe changing the narrative was more important than being a blockbuster hit…. And I believe this film was the first step in accomplishing this….Most who saw this are positive

 

[Disney Irish]

Which is why I believe changing the narrative was more important than being a blockbuster hit…. And I believe this film was the first step in accomplishing this….Most who saw this are positive

Which is funny, because while MCU hasn't been rocking the box office of late, basically hit or miss, I would really only count 3 maybe 4 of the 14 post-Endgame movies in the "bad" narrative column. And of those 3 or 4 really if you take them outside of the MCU, irrespective of their budgets, they weren't actually that bad of movies on their own. Its only when put under the lens of the MCU and its success history, and then adding in the D+ shows and their issues, that they get dragged down.

So yes its a reset of the narrative to try to bring back a public that lost faith. Started with this movie and continued with Fantastic Four, and I'm sure Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Doomsday will be hopefully back to the norm that everyone expects.

 

[DKampy]

Which is funny, because while MCU hasn't been rocking the box office of late, basically hit or miss, I would really only count 3 maybe 4 of the 14 post-Endgame movies in the "bad" narrative column. And of those 3 or 4 really if you take them outside of the MCU, irrespective of their budgets, they weren't actually that bad of movies on their own. Its only when put under the lens of the MCU and its success history, and then adding in the D+ shows and their issues, that they get dragged down.

So yes its a reset of the narrative to try to bring back a public that lost faith. Started with this movie and continued with Fantastic Four, and I'm sure Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Doomsday will be hopefully back to the norm that everyone expects.

Don’t get me wrong…I am not saying I agree with the narrative…. There are only a couple of MCU movies since Endgame I did not care for

I believe the average person is done with the so called “culture war” nonsense despite what certain people still try to spin… IMO… the MCU is on an upward trajectory at the moment…. What the last 2 films are doing reminds me of when the MCU first begun