The Marvels ends box office run as lowest-grossing MCU movie ever
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The Marvels has crash-landed on an unwanted box office record for Marvel Studios.
The Captain Marvel sequel features a team of superheroes in Carol Danvers (played by Brie Larson), Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) and Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), who must thwart the new threat that is Kree warrior Dar-Benn (Zawe Ashton).
But after four weeks on the big screen, the film has yet to cross $200 million at the box office.
According to Variety, Disney is so underwhelmed by the movie's performance that it'll "stop weekend reporting of international/global grosses on this title".
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Although The Marvels is expected to remain in theatres through the New Year, its global takings still won't top 2008's The Incredible Hulk, which remained Marvel's lowest-grossing release at $264m until now.
In comparison, this year's critically-panned Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania brought in $476m.
Meanwhile, Disney's CEO Bob Iger has claimed that The Marvels' box office implosion could be down to its production during the pandemic.
"The Marvels was shot during COVID," he noted at a recent press conference. "There wasn't as much supervision on the set, so to speak, where we have executives [that are] really looking over what's being done day after day after day.
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"I'm not sure another studio will ever achieve some of the numbers that we achieved," Iger continued.
"I mean, we got to the point where if a film didn't do a billion dollars in global box office, we were disappointed. That's an unbelievably high standard and I think we have to get more realistic."
The Marvels is now playing in cinemas, while Captain Marvel is streaming on Disney+ and available on DVD, Blu-ray and digital download.
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