The great premiere of ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ heralded a new success for Marvel, but then the reality has been quite different. In fact, the film starring paul rudd It is going to break a negative record in this universe of superheroes, sowing doubts about Phase 5.
The lowest-grossing sequel
The brand that is going to destroy ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ is that of Marvel’s lowest-grossing sequel to date. That honor was for many years in the hands of ‘Iron Man 2’ and its $623.9 million at the worldwide box office, but a few years ago it went to ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ with $622.7 million. The third installment of this saga currently accumulates 473.4 million and is already disappearing from theaters -this past weekend it barely entered $111,000-, so it is impossible that it will enter an additional 150 million.
Yes indeed, This does not make ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ the lowest grossing Marvel movie, since there are up to six titles that entered less. The point is that these films are part of Marvel’s Phase 1 -‘The Incredible Hulk’ with 264 million, ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ with 370 million and ‘Thor’ with 449 million- or were released when the public was still reluctant to return to theaters due to the coronavirus -‘Black Widow’ with 379 million, ‘Eternals’ with 402 million and ‘Shang-Chi and the legend of the ten rings’ with 432 million-.
What complicates matters in this case is that ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ was the ambitious launch of Phase 5, also establishing Kang as the next great Marvel villain. We’ll see what ends up happening Jonathan Majors after the accusations suffered by the actor, but it is clear that Marvel needs to straighten the course. Luckily for the studio, the next movie to arrive will be ‘Guardians of the Galaxy 3’, and everything indicates that the studio’s farewell to James Gunn it will destroy
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