Disney and Marvel’s Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania has grossed $17.5m from its Thursday preview screenings in North America, putting the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe release on course for a strong performance over the four-day President’s Day holiday weekend.
Internationally, Quantumania opened in 26 more markets on Thursday, bringing its gross from two days in a total of 43 markets to $23.8m.
The tally from North American previews put the new film well ahead of 2015’s original Ant-Man (with a $6m preview take) and 2018’s Ant-Man and The Wasp ($12m) and just ahead of 2017’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, which took $17m from previews on the way to a $147m opening weekend.
Quantumania is expected to open in four days with an opening of $100m to $125m over the course of its four-day run. The President’s Day weekend’s four-day opening record is held by Marvel/Disney’s Black Pan, which earned $242.2m in 2018. Disney is estimating that
Quantumania’s first two days internationally put it 68% ahead of Ant-Man (which ended up taking $339.1m internationally) and one percent ahead of Ant-Man and the Wasp (which went on to $406m outside North America). Thursday saw
Quantumania opening at number one in all its new European markets, with $1.8m in France (putting it 16% of Ant-Man and the Wasp), $1.3m in Germany (47% ahead of the previous installment) and $1m in Italy (16% ahead). In Latin America, the new film opened with $2.4 million in Mexico and $1.3 million in Brazil. Asia-Pacific saw Korea produce $2.2 million and Australia $1.5m.
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opened Friday inChina, Disney were estimating a top-of-the-line opening day gross of $6.3m on the market. Other openings took place in India, Japan, the UK, and Spain on Friday.
