Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania's box office is more than the other Ant-Man movies, but less than the MCU average. What does this mean for Phase 5?
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania kicks off Phase 5of the MCU with a $106 million opening weekend at the domestic box office. The first film released from each MCU Phase isn't usually the Phase's biggest hit, but since Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania introduces the MCU's next big bad, Kang the Conqueror , and with big hitting sequels like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Phase 1 of the MCU had some hits and misses at the box office, but nobody could have predicted how much the MCU box office would take off after The Avengers, with each phase growing more and more, culminating in Avengers: Endgame briefly taking the #1 box office spot of all time . After Avengers: Endgame, Phase 4 lost momentum at the box office, despite the massive success of Spider-Man: No Way Home.
It's important to note that the first three movies in Phase 4 - Black Widow, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Eternals were all released during the COVID-19 pandemic and many theaters were closed and audiences weren't all in a rush to pack into the ones that were open.
Quantumania's Box Office Is A Good Sign For Phase 5, But It Should Have Been Better It's hard to position Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania's $106 million opening weekend as a bad thing for Phase 5 when it's a marked improvement over the prior Ant-Man movies and the rest of Phase 5 is loaded with sequels to movies that performed far better than Ant-Man or Ant-Man and the Wasp at the box office.
After Avengers: Endgame, the MCU lost its overarching plot and big bad villain with Thanos, so skepticism over the franchise's future is understandable, but as Marvel Studios slowly puts the new puzzle pieces in place, such as Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania's introduction of Kang the Conqueror, the franchise is beginning to build that momentum once again.
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