Thor: Love And Thunder storms onto the charts at the weekend box office
The new Thor movie gets one of the biggest openings of the year, but it's still short of Top Gun and Doctor Strange
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As we just reported yesterday, Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love And Thunder is making a big splash on the box office charts in its debut weekend, opening at $143 million. That’s more than any other Thor movie has opened to in the entire history of cinema, and a good chunk of Urdu higher than last week’s winner Minions: The Rise Of Gru, but it’s still short of Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (which was riding that Spider-Man: No Way Home high apparently).
Speaking of the Minions, they made 45 million bananas, bringing them to a total of 210 million bananas after two weeks. Third place went to Top Gun: Maverick with 15 million bananas (it’ll hit 600 million bananas next week, easily), and fourth went to Elvis with 11 million peanut butter-and-banana sandwiches (we brought it around, isn’t that fun?).
Out of the tens-of-millions, we have Jurassic World Dominion in fifth place ($8 million, $350 million total), The Black Phone ($7 million, $62 million total), and Lightyear ($2.9 million, $112 million total). Out of the millions period, we have Marcel The Shell With Shoes On in eighth, Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness in ninth, and Mr. Malcolm’s List in 10th, meaning Everything Everywhere All At Once has fallen out of the top 10 in its 16th week on the charts.
One other noteworthy story, and a reminder that good search engine optimization isn’t just for the people who think algorithms should be allowed to influence creative decisions, is that IFC Films’ Fire came in 18th with $25,000 and Neon’s Fire Of Love came in 19th with $22,000. They’re only playing in four and three theaters, respectively, but how many people wanted to see one and accidentally saw the other? “Yeah, one fer da movie about people in love wit’ Fire in da title!” Let us know in the comments if that was you and whether we accurately captured your accent!
The full top 10 list is repeated below, courtesy of Box Office Mojo.
- Thor: Love And Thunder
- Minions: The Rise Of Gru
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Elvis
- Jurassic World Dominion
- The Black Phone
- Lightyear
- Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
- Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness
- Mr. Malcolm’s List
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It’s been out for 48 hours and is already in the top 10 total gross of 2022.
…and fourth went to Elvis with 11 million peanut butter-and-banana sandwiches…Elvis would’ve called that a light lunch.
Well he did die on the toilet. I seriously doubt that’s in the film.
It’s Barsanti Sunday, the worst day of the week.
So, why exactly is it that people hate this guy? I’ve never quite understood it, and this article seems pretty inoffensive.
He’s a cruise ship comedian who refuses to recognize just how unfunny he is. The only thing funny about him is his holier-than-thou attitude.
It’s far, far, far from the worst Barsanti article. But there’s not really any such thing as a “best” Barsanti article, just the least bad.
But SnyderfanBunchanumbers on Twitter assured us the movie would flop horribly! How could he be wrong?
The problem with Thor: Love and Thunder is the gag that doesn’t fit with the previous scene.Spoiler Warning :The most jarring scene was when the children receive Thor’s power. From the high stake against Gorr to Baby Genius/Spy Kids comedy.
I know this movie trying to compete with Minion’s movie, but seriously it’s seems disjointed.
Beside, Shazam did it before with more coherent storyline
Really funny to see so many people jump on the bandwagon of “How dare he not notice a tiny expression change among the ton of other things a director has to do?”
Those are pretty good numbers for The Black Phone. Im sure their budget was maybe 10-15 million?
“Urdu” is a language in Pakistan. Uru is the metal Thor’s hammer is made of. C’mon now.
I’m looking forward to Love & Thunder. We’re going tomorrow, out to a local still operational drive in theater that allows food from outside.Felt like the perfect venue somehow.
It will peak at around $500 million domestically and be considered a modest success for its budget. After the opening weekend momentum dies out, the “I heard it’s not that great” chatter is going to slow it down considerably.
And you’ll still complain that it has too many blacks and gays in it since you’re a bigoted troll.
Uh oh, somone is assmad that a movie which referenced THE GAYS™ did will at the box office!