Another Woke Disney Flop? ‘The Marvels’ Crashes with $6.5 Million Opening Night
Well, “The Marvels” certainly didn’t disappoint on opening weekend.
Well, I mean, it did. Reviews of the film were consistently bad, and I’m sure Disney and the film’s producers were hoping to sell more tickets — a lot more tickets — than they actually did.
But the projections for the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe installment had been dropping steadily over the past several weeks, and the box office has in fact been miserable so far. So from that perspective, the movie hasn’t disappointed: It’s performed every bit as badly as expected, and maybe even worse.
Deadline reported on Tuesday that in only three weeks, projections had fallen from from the $75 to $80 million range to $50 to $60 million,