{"id":71667,"date":"2025-05-03T17:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T17:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/71667\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T17:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T17:06:13","slug":"thunderbolts-rumbles-towards-165m-global-box-office-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/71667\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Thunderbolts*\u2019 Rumbles Towards $165M+ Global Box Office Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/marvel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_marvel\" data-tag=\"marvel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marvel<\/a> Studios\/Disney\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/thunderbolts-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thunderbolts*<\/a> kicked off <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/international-box-office\/\" id=\"auto-tag_international-box-office\" data-tag=\"international-box-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">international box office<\/a> play on Wednesday, and through Friday has an estimated overseas cume of $47.2M from 52 material markets. The day-and-date global rollout is rolling up to a projected $165M+ through Sunday. This is in line with the pre-weekend estimated range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs Anthony has noted, the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/05\/box-office-thunderbolts-1236383739\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">domestic<\/a> bow now has as a shot at coming in at $73M-$77M.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOverseas, the ragtag bunch of antiheroes is, as a whole, playing best in Latin America, and also scoring in the UK and Asia with projected No. 1s\u00a0 everywhere (outside of Korea and China, which was expected \u2013 more on that below).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNote that May 1st was a holiday in many markets \u2013 though the UK will take the day off on Monday \u2014 while weather in Europe is also a factor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe well-reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/florence-pugh\/\" id=\"auto-tag_florence-pugh\" data-tag=\"florence-pugh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florence Pugh<\/a>-starrer is hoping to see walk-up business on Saturday and Sunday and thus should finish the weekend within the range we wrote about earlier this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Top 5 markets through Friday are <strong>China<\/strong> ($7.1M), <strong>Mexico<\/strong> ($4.2M), <strong>UK<\/strong> ($3.1M), <strong>Brazil<\/strong> ($2.2M) and <strong>France<\/strong> ($2.1M).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs expected, we\u2019re not seeing big action in China with the Jake Schreier-directed first installment MCU movie having opened on a non-traditional Wednesday and playing into a competitive frame with lots of new local titles. Through Saturday, the estimated China cume is about $9M (note that today\u2019s numbers are not included in the running total above).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWe\u2019ll have a full update tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel Studios\/Disney\u2019s Thunderbolts* kicked off international box office play on Wednesday, and through Friday has an estimated overseas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,16797,1615,3985,3943,16805,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-71667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-florence-pugh","10":"tag-international-box-office","11":"tag-marvel","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-thunderbolts","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114444997929956272","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}