Even with a big drop, Thor: Love and Thunder remains as the highest grossing in the US today
One of the main releases of Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) in 2022, Thor: Love and Thunder dominates the box office in the United States, but even so it had a significant drop of 68% in the second week of the film in exhibition, according to information from the Tangerine.
In the second weekend in theaters, the film directed by Taika Waititi and starring Chris Hemsworth US$ 46 million, around R$ 247.39 million in the current exchange rate of the US dollar. In comparison, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) suffered a similar but smaller drop: 67%.
In second place in the ranking of the box office in the United States, comes Minions 2: Origin of Gru with approximately US$ 26 million. A Place Far Away From Here completes the podium in third place with US$ 17 million.
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Thor: Love and Thunder banned in China for LGBTQ+ scene
Thor: Love and Thunderfourth film about the God of Thunder played by Chris Hemsworth, had its premiere banned from China for containing LGBTQIA+ scenes, becoming the sixth film from the studios to be banned for gender bias. The information is from The Hollywood Reporter.
The film follows lightyear (2022), Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), West Side Story (2021) and eternal (2021) on a growing list of major Disney titles to be blocked by due to the inclusion of LGBTQ+ scenes, which often come into conflict due to homosexuality being officially illegal in much of the Middle East and Asia.
The country’s regulatory body points out as flaws in the script the scenes that briefly suggest that Valkyriecharacter of Tessa Thompsonis bisexual, and that Korg, played by Taika Waititiis gay.
During the exhibition of the films for the world producers, the Walt Disney Productionsnow responsible for Marvel Universewould not even have shown it to the censors, knowing that it would not pass uncut.
Sources from two major cinema chains in China told the specialized portal that Thor: Love and Thunder must even face the same fate as lightyearanimation of Pixarbanned in more than 10 Middle Eastern countries for homosexual scenes.
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