{"id":4565,"date":"2018-07-10T09:56:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T13:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/?p=4565"},"modified":"2018-07-10T09:58:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T13:58:10","slug":"marvels-ant-man-and-the-wasp-claims-the-weekends-1-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/2018\/07\/marvels-ant-man-and-the-wasp-claims-the-weekends-1-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp Claims the Weekend’s #1 Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s another Disney-led weekend as Ant-Man and the <\/b>Wasp<\/b> claims the weekend’s #1 spot. This marks the tenth time this year a film based on a Marvel comic character has topped the weekend box office!<\/p>\n

Disney’s success this weekend also doesn’t end with just the #1 film at the box office as Incredibles<\/b> 2<\/b> became the first animated title to ever top $500 million at the domestic box office.<\/p>\n

As we enter the second half of the year, and the 27th weekend of 2018, the Marvel Cinematic Universe<\/b> has now claimed the #1 spot at the weekend box office nine times. The latest is this weekend’s release of Ant-Man and the Wasp<\/b>, the 20th installment in the MCU, which debuted with an estimated $76 million<\/b> over the three-day weekend, out-performing 2015’s Ant-Man<\/b> by nearly $20 million.<\/p>\n

Ant-Man and the Wasp<\/b>‘s Friday gross accounted for 44.5% of its overall weekend gross, that’s the largest in MCU history, ahead of Avengers: <\/b>Age<\/b> of Ultron<\/b> (44.1%) and Spider-Man: Homecoming<\/b> (43.39%). However, before that’s considered an issue, while Ultron<\/b> only delivered a 2.4x multiplier, Homecoming<\/b> delivered a 2.86x multiplier, the sixth best in the franchise, and the first Ant-Man<\/b> enjoyed a healthy 3.15x multiplier. Ant-Man and the Wasp<\/b> received a “A-” CinemaScore<\/a> from opening weekend audiences, just a notch down from the “A” for Ant-Man<\/b>, and 55% of the overall audience was male while 58% of the overall audience was over the age of 25. While the gender demographics are relatively similar to the first Ant-Man<\/b>, the audience for the sequel did skew a bit older, as 48% of the overall audience for the first film was age 25 or older.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead, should Ant-Man<\/b> deliver on the average 2.75x multiplier for a film in the MCU we’re looking at a domestic performance around $209 million or so while a performance on the lower end would be closer to $180 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  It’s another Disney-led weekend as Ant-Man and the Wasp claims the weekend’s #1 spot. This marks the tenth time this year a film based on a Marvel comic character has topped the weekend box office! Disney’s success this weekend also doesn’t end with just the #1 film at the box office as Incredibles 2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-articles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4568,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions\/4568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}