Thor: Love and Thunder charged into the marketplace to make $15.65m in its first weekend, beating the Australian initial release figures for Top Gun: Maverick by almost $2m, belting Jurassic World: Dominion by $3m, and doubling the release figures for Elvis. [All numbers in AU$].
Taika Waititi’s playful version of the canon made $210m in its US opening, and it has already made $445m around the world. Top Gun: Maverick came out with $185m, while Waititi beat his previous Thor film by 16%. But, as Box Office Mojo points out, Dr Strange started with $275m, while audience approval for this new Thor is generally lower. In the number jumble, Deadline pulls out the crucial indicator: the US box office is 218% up on the same period last year.
