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'The Marvels' has a far from marvelous N.America opening

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Brie Larson is Carol Danvers a.k.a. Captain Marvel. Handout" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/tvpatrol/11/13/brie-larson.jpg"/><figcaption>Brie Larson is Carol Danvers a.k.a. Captain Marvel. <em>Handout</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>LOS ANGELES, United States - New superhero film &quot;The Marvels&quot; is making history, and not in a good way: its estimated $47 million North American take over the weekend marks the lowest debut ever for a movie from Disney&#x27;s normally money-cranking Marvel Cinematic Universe.</p><p>&quot;This opening is an unprecedented Marvel box office collapse,&quot; said analyst David A. Gross. Second superhero episodes normally outperform the originals, he said, but this one is down 67 percent from its predecessor, &quot;Captain Marvel,&quot; and has a long way to go to recoup its $220 million production cost.</p><p>It&#x27;s unclear, analysts said, whether this is a clear signal of moviegoers&#x27; superhero fatigue after so many successful blockbusters.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6pioKkG6U2I?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><p>But Gross said several factors are hurting such films in the theaters, including the growth of streaming services and the recently ended actors&#x27; strike (&quot;Marvels&quot; stars led by Brie Larson were unable to do promotional work) -- as well as a slew of &quot;unimaginative and bad movies&quot; across the genre.</p><p>&quot;The Marvels,&quot; a complicated sci-fi yarn about quantum entanglement, &quot;jump points&quot; and holes in space, also stars Teyonah Parris and Iman Vellani.</p><p>In second for the weekend was &quot;Five Nights at Freddy&#x27;s&quot; from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions, with estimated ticket sales of $9 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday. Josh Hutcherson plays a down-at-the-heels guard working nights at an abandoned family entertainment center where creepy animatronic characters spring -- murderously -- to life.</p><p>AMC Theaters&#x27; &quot;Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour&quot; again performed well: the superstar&#x27;s concert film earned $5.9 million as it placed third for the weekend. Its total domestic haul in five weeks is now $172.5 million.</p><p>In fourth was A24&#x27;s biopic &quot;Priscilla,&quot; at $4.8 million, nearly level with last weekend&#x27;s $5 million take. The Sofia Coppola-directed film charts the rocky relationship between Elvis and Priscilla Presley, from their first meeting, when she was just 14 and he was a 24-year-old star, to their acrimonious split.</p><p>Cailee Spaeny, in the title role, has earned the Venice Film Festival&#x27;s best actress award.</p><p>And in fifth, at $4.7 million, was Martin Scorsese&#x27;s history-based epic &quot;Killers of the Flower Moon.&quot; The Paramount drama stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone.</p><p>Rounding out the top 10 were:</p><p>&quot;The Holdovers&quot; ($3.2 million)</p><p>&quot;Journey to Bethlehem&quot; ($2.4 million)</p><p>&quot;Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie&quot; ($1.8 million)</p><p>&quot;Radical&quot; ($1.8 million)</p><p>&quot;The Exorcist: Believer&quot; ($1.2 million)</p><p>bbk/nro</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div>

'The Marvels' estimated $47 million North American take over the weekend marks the lowest debut ever for a Marvel movie.