Thor 4: The best start to the Marvel saga at the US box office for Love and Thunder?

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American box office is in Thor! As usual, the new kid at Marvel Studios took control during the release weekend. and Love and thunder I won’t go into details: With receipts estimated at $143 million, Taika Waititi’s film opens the biggest opus in the saga led by Chris Hemsworth, ahead of Ragnarok.

Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (which remains in the weekly top 10 despite its availability on Disney+ across the Atlantic), Thor – Love and Thunder is the third MCU film in a row to get off to a stronger start than its predecessor. Which, in times of pandemic and less popular seats, can be a source of optimism, even if the increase in ticket prices is to be considered.

Box office leader Thor has clearly beaten the competition. to begin with Minions 2, whose reign lasted only one weekend. Despite the big drop in its income (-57.4% compared to the previous week), the latest from Illumination studios collects more than 45 million additional green lars, which already allows it to pass 200 in the United States.

At the moment, the first opus’s 336 (which has passed the billion mark worldwide) still seems a long way off, but who knows what the summer will bring? quite behind but still in good shape, Top Gun Maverick Never stops panicking the counters. Not content with being the biggest hit of Tom Cruise’s career, the Joseph Kosinski film is the twelfth biggest hit on American soil today and could climb a few spots in the coming days and weeks.

Worldwide, the feature film is now the twenty-second biggest hit of all time, ahead of The Minions and behind Iron Man 3, which it is expected to replace. And the symbol would be even stronger since Tom Cruise was long expected to play Tony Stark, before the project was changed and Robert Downey Jr. was eventually cast.

In the rest of the ranking, Jurassic World – The World After Shouldn’t be as good as the previous two episodes. But his score is far from dismal, both in the United States and the rest of the world, where he should end his run beyond 900 million, failing to reach a billion.

And consider very good behaviorElvis which has now grossed $91 million in three weeks (with an $85 budget) and is firmly in the Top 5, where it is the only member not to be a sequel. While the weather may not always be kind to theaters around the world, there are still reasons to cheer a little.