Marvel Studios has another winner on its hands, relatively speaking. The sequelAnt-Man and the Wasppulled in $33.8 million on Friday at the box office, putting the film on track to gross around $80 million for the whole weekend. That’s higher than the firstAnt-Man’s $57.2 million gross, and indeed this little corner of the Marvel universe appears to be smaller in scale than the studio’s other films—by design. The stakes are more personal and smaller, and even the scale of the picture is more intimate than, say,Thor: RagnarokorCaptain America: The Winter Soldier. But Marvel fans thatdodig what directorPeyton Reedis doing really dig it, asAnt-Man and the Waspscored an A- CinemaScore from opening night audiences.
The only other “new” release this weekend isThe First Purge, which actually opened on July 4th. The politically tinged prequel earned an estimated $6.1 million on Friday and is looking towards around $18.5 million for the weekend and $32 million for its first five days in release.
But it’s Disney who holds both the #1 and #2 slots, as the box office behemothIncredibles 2is jockeying for second place with $9.8 million on Friday, going toe-to-toe withJurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which made $9.1 million on Friday. It’ll be a photo-finish for the weekend, butIncredibles 2has been doing bonkers business and will passFinding Dorythis weekend to stand as the highest grossing Pixar title of all time.
Jurassic World 2, meanwhile, has now passed $1 billion globally, and while it won’t match the $652.2 million domestic of the first film, its current domestic total is a solid $313 million.
Check out the Top 5 below and check back tomorrow for full weekend estimates.
Ant-Man and the Wasp
$33,801,000
Incredibles 2
$9,822,000
$485,183,414
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
$9,110,000
$313,867,665
The First Purge
$6,060,000
$19,965,945
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
$2,300,000
$30,302,070
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