Unique: Distribution sources are telling us that the last James Gunn film from Disney Marvel Studios, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, doing around $14 million in preview. As we always say, he may be up or down by morning. Thursday previews began at 3 p.m. and there were 100 IMAX showings on Wednesdays. Note, these figures don’t come from Disney.
‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 posted $17M on its Thursday night, recouping 30% of its first Friday of $56M, for a $146.5M opening weekend. first two Guardians of the Galaxy movies got a CinemaScores,
That said, on estimates Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 have gone wild. It was at $130M on initial tracking three weeks ago, then dropped to $110M, then I heard an estimate today from an exhibitor that was even lower, and inexplicable. Let’s just play this picture. The global outlook is $250M. Keep in mind, Marvel movies can always be frontloaded. While it holds an approximately 79% Certified Fresh review on Rotten Tomatoes, the lowest of the trilogy (following the first film’s 92% Certified Fresh and 85% Certified Fresh), GOTG3has a current audience score of 97% on RT (the first 2014 movie received an audience score of 92% on RT, while GOTG2 was lower at 87%). advance ticket sales for GOTG3I’ve heard, picked up and are approaching the $37M mark Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantummania The $106.1M 3-Day was on Thursday’s eve before a $120.3M 4-Day debut.
We’re also hearing that 62% GOTG3The pre-sale is for tonight or tomorrow. This is encouraging when the first Thursday/Friday opening of the last four Marvel movies tied for 65%-71% presales.
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Meanwhile, Illumination/Universal/Nintendo super mario bros movie will cross $500 million Mark tonight or tomorrow. The $1.98M videogame feature was going for $498M on Wednesday. This would be representative of 30 to 31 days for a picture of the mark of half a billion states. Pixar’s incredible 2 accomplished that feat at the box office in 24 days, which is still the fastest ever for an animated film. super mario bros It will be the second fastest half billion territory in its pace. after the pandemic, super mario bros Will be the 4th film to cross $500M after this Spider-Man: No Way Home ($814.1 million), Top Gun: Maverick ($718.7 million) and Avatar: The Way of Water ($683.9 million).