Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania raked $17.5 million per Disney during its Thursday previews. Three-day domestic box office estimates expect the film to gross $100 million, possibly increasing to $120 million for a three-day holiday weekend total.
The third Ant-Man installment will likely set an opening record for the franchise and be the third-best Presidents Day opening after 2018’s Black Panther ($242.1M) and 2016’s Deadpool ($152.1M).
Quantumania has received lukewarm ratings from critics, but they have been raving about Jonathan Majors‘ performance as Kang the Conqueror. Variety critic Owen Gleiberman wrote, “With no motion-capture makeup to hide behind, Jonathan Majors holds you with the quiet force of his pensive scowl… he makes vengeance and genocide sound like the most hypnotically casual of propositions.”
While Ant-Man 3 is unlikely to hit near recent Marvel titles such as Thor: Love and Thunder and most recent tentpole Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which was released in November last year, Paul Rudd’s latest Marvel adventure does have the jump on its titular predecessors, 2015’s Ant-Man and 2018’s sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp which debuted at $57 million and $76 million respectively.
Ant-Man has always been very successful with family audiences due to the lighter, comedic nature of the prior two films. With the long President’s day weekend, the film will likely see lighter drops on Sunday and Monday.
Update: The Weekend Top 10 Domestic
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania – 3-day / $105.5M, 4-day / $120M
- Avatar: The Way of Water – 4-day / $7.899M
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – 4-day / $7.05M
- Magic Mike’s Last Dance – 4-day / $6.26M
- Knock at the Cabin – 4-day / $4.59M
- 80 for Brady – 4-day / $4.5M
- Titanic – 4-day / $2.9M
- Marlowe – 4-day / $2.2M
- Missing – 4-day / $2.07M
- A Man Called Otto – 4-day / $1.88M
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