The once-mighty genre has been showing signs of decay for the past two years. Recent disappointments include “Shazam! Fury of the Gods,” “Blue Beetle” and “Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.”
Now, “The Marvels” looks to add an exclamation mark to that trend. And it couldn’t happen at a worse time for Disney, which owns the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
The sequel to 2019’s “Captain Marvel” could earn as little as $35 million this weekend, a shocking figure given the genre’s previous smashes. The original film earned $153 million in its opening frame, and it went on to snag an astounding $426 million stateside and another $704 million from international sales.