These devastating numbers are likely to shake up the Marvel Cinematic Universe even more. With a negative record, The Marvels had the worst theatrical release in the history of the most successful film series of all time. The flop of Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania at the beginning of the year seems to have been forgotten. But only because the new film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe gets off to a much worse start. Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania scores in its first weekend in the US and Canada $106 million Sales volume. A result of that The Marvels can only dream.

### Marvel flop: The Marvels did so badly in the cinema

The first figures now show the brutal flop that The Marvels had worldwide on its opening weekend. The new Marvel film only played in the USA and Canada $47 million. Original estimates at the start of the weekend were from $47 million to $52 million went out. The Marvels therefore only reached the lower end of the already pessimistic forecasts. Even earlier box office predictions were for an even worse start. Here was only from $35 million to $49 million the Reason.

Internationally it ran for The Marvels also very bad. The new Marvel flop played worldwide $110 million. For comparison: the previous film Captain Marvel achieved box office revenue of $153.4 million on the first weekend – in the USA alone and Canada. Internationally there were even more than that at the time $300 million. Ended up at the end of the theatrical release Captain Marvel at incredible $1.128 billion Box office gross and is therefore in 8th place out of 33 full-length films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The successor The Marvels However, it is likely that there will be considerable difficulties in meeting the estimated budget of around $275 million to play back in somehow. This would require sales of over half a billion US dollars. Since (supposed) blockbusters from the superhero genre usually collapse enormously after the first week of play, it seems highly unrealistic that the new Marvel film can achieve this goal at the box office.

### How is The Marvels doing in the cinema in Germany?

What is interesting, however, is that a completely different picture emerges in Germany. In this country, The Marvels started with around 190,000 spectators. This is also far from any of the top values ​​of the Avengers or Spider-Man, but the new Marvel film trumps them his predecessor clearly. And as follows:

Captain Marvel started 2019 with just 126,617 visitors and is the second biggest disappointment from the MCU in this country. Only the second film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Incredible Hulk, had an even worse start. In 2008 in Germany only wanted 114,380 moviegoers see the supposed superhero blockbuster.