The summer movie season is almost on us and cannot come fast enough. The first piece of 2025 was very rough in the box office. Even after Minecraft Film released a global opening of $ 314 millionThe domestic treasurer is about 5% behind 2024. We are miles behind the pre-pandemic level. So, can Marvel's Chinese universe bring us back on the right track with "Thunder" in May? In early walking, the answer seems to be yes, but it will rely on Marvel to deliver the old crowd of old, opposite something divided.

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Early monitoring suggests that director Akejk Shreer's "thunderstorms" will open between $ 63 and $ 77 million, after Hollywood reporter. So, we look over/under $ 70 million, which would certainly be at the lower end of the MCU summer title. That said, this is also a new franchise without many A-list characters to be talked about (outside Sebastian Stan Baki Burns, aka winter soldier). For the most part, this is a group of B-level characters that lead a team without almost the same name recognition as the "Avengers". So, we should not expect the opening of the "Avengers" level here. Following suggests something closer to the "eternity".

2021 Eternals opened at $ 71.2 million and ended its run with just over $ 400 million all over the world. That, he said, the ambitious team of director Chloe Haao was welcomed with a separated response and came at a time when the pandemic was still preventing movement. It's not a problem now. What is a problem is the uneven leaf of MCU during the multivered saga. We had super high heights like "Spider-Man: No Made Home" ($ 1.9 billion worldwide/opening $ 260.1 million) and low drops like Marvels ($ 206.1 million in the world/opening $ 46.1 million).

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In recent years, Marvel's average blockbuster costs much closer to $ 200 million at $ 150 million in production. So, in the case of "Thunder", Disney really needs this film to do a business worth more than $ 400 million. It's a lot of cards, assuming they're enough movie like the movie.

"Thunderbolts" focuses on a group of non-quit-heroes, non-villains that are considered to be strained in a dangerous mission. The main group consists of Jelena Belova (Florence Pug), Baki Burns (Stan), Red guardian (David Harbor), Spirit (Hannah Johnon-Kamen), Taskmaster (Olga Kurilenko) and, Johnon Walker (Wayat Russell). Luis Pulman ("Top Gun: Maverick") is also on the ship Like MCU's new character from Marvel Comics pages, Senttri.

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MCC has been struggling to maintain consistency in recent years, and the scheme is surprisingly simple. Problems with the crowd such as Deadpool & Wolverine ($ 1.33 billion worldwide/Opening $ 211.4 million) can rise above noise and deliver huge hits, while Meh's reception, such as this year's "Captain America": Expectations. It all comes down to the answer from the general audience.

Although there was a time when the MCU movies were more or less guaranteed hits at the box office, the days of the movie like "Thor: Dark World" can reach $ 644 million worldwide They are gone. That's why movie like Ant-man and wasps: Quantania ended with a disappointing $ 476 million Globally after opening a huge promising $ 106.1 million. The audience's conviction bar to leave the house has been raised, and the "Wait to Transfer" mentality is rooted for slightly less than the greatness in the field of superhero films.

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In short, if the audience wants the "lightning", there is no reason why he cannot make a "strange doctor" ($ 677.7 million worldwide/$ 85 million opening). $ 70 million or more could absolutely set this film for success. And these are still early numbers. Add positive reviews to critics on the side of this film, and those numbers could easily appear in May.

Thunderbolts hits theaters on May 2, 2025.