Eternals opened at around $71 million this weekend, making it Marvel’s lowest domestic box office debut since 2015’s Ant-Man. From Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao, Eternals recounts the story of a group of immortal aliens known as Eternals, who have been hiding on Earth for thousands of years. At the point when a detestable force known as Deviants threatens the presence of the planet, the Eternals should emerge from hiding and band together to defeat them.
According to a new article from Deadline, Eternals is set to pull in record low (at least for Marvel) opening weekend box office numbers second just to 2015’s Ant-Man. The Paul Rudd-drove film opened with $57.2 million domestically, while Eternals is as of now sitting at around $71 million. Many specialists anticipated an opening weekend for the film upwards of $80 million, similar to Doctor Strange’s $85 million opening in 2016. Most as of late, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings opened to simply more than $75 million domestically in its initial three days, coming near $95 million in total during its four-day Labor Day weekend debut.
While, by Marvel standards, the box office numbers for Eternals are low, the film has still performed well by different measurements. The film’s global box office numbers are as of now around $162 million, making it the second-best opening for a film in 2021 behind F9’s $163 million. For setting, Shang-Chi’s global opening weekend pull came in at around $128 million. Although Eternals’ helpless verbal exchange and negative critical gathering are likely part of the reason why the film hasn’t performed as well as the majority of Marvel’s different movies, the fact that it’s not releasing in China has likely impacted box office numbers as well. For example, out of F9’s $163 million opening weekend global box office income, $136 million of that came from China.
Ultimately, although Eternals numbers look low by comparison to other Marvel movies, the film has performed adequately and is unlikely to impact Marvel’s bottom line in any meaningful way. What appears to be bound to live on in memory than the film’s box office numbers are the film’s many negative audits and its situation as the lowest-rated Marvel movie ever on Rotten Tomatoes. Generally, be that as it may, it appears as though audiences’ opinions of Eternals are more sure than the critical gathering. In the grand plan of things, Eternals is among several as of late released movies to reinvigorate public interest in going to the movies.