{"id":4679,"date":"2022-05-09T09:24:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/?p=4679"},"modified":"2022-05-09T09:26:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:26:24","slug":"marvels-doctor-strange-kicks-off-the-blockbuster-season-with-a-magical-185m-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/2022\/05\/marvels-doctor-strange-kicks-off-the-blockbuster-season-with-a-magical-185m-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel&#8217;s Doctor Strange kicks Off The Blockbuster Season With A Magical $185M Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4681\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/doctorStrangeMultiverse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/doctorStrangeMultiverse.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/doctorStrangeMultiverse-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/doctorStrangeMultiverse-120x150.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The summer blockbuster season officially kicked off over Mother\u2019s Day weekend thanks to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness\u2019 whopping $185 million domestic opening. With no new major competition (who in their right minds would even dare to go up against it?), the latest chapter in the hand-over-fist Marvel Cinematic Universe instantly became the biggest box-office debut of 2022.<\/p>\n<p><b>Doctor Strange <\/b>earned a staggering $40,802 per-screen average in 4,534 theaters. The MCU\u2019s latest \u00a0fared even better overseas, where it raked in $265 million in 49 international territories for a \u00a0cumulative worldwide box office tally after its first weekend of $450 million\u2014$33 million of which came from IMAX screens. In comparison, the first <b>Doctor Strange<\/b> earned $677.8 million worldwide during its entire theatrical run. <b>Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness&#8217;\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0massive debut is just the latest confirmation that when it comes to the box office, there is the MCU and then there\u2019s everyone else. After all, the franchise\u2019s four 2021 releases accounted for nearly 30% of all tickets sold in North America last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summer blockbuster season officially kicked off over Mother\u2019s Day weekend thanks to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness\u2019 whopping $185 million domestic opening. With no new major competition (who in their right minds would even dare to go up against it?), the latest chapter in the hand-over-fist Marvel Cinematic Universe instantly became the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4681,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679","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=4679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4683,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679\/revisions\/4683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}