GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 Has Already Grossed More Than ANT-MAN & THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA With $528M

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 Has Already Grossed More Than ANT-MAN & THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA With $528M

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is now closing in on $500 million worldwide, which means it's officially passed Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania entire box office run...

By MarkCassidy - May 14, 2023 12:05 PM EST
Filed Under: Vol. 3

After just 10 days on general release, James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 has already outgrossed Marvel Studios' previous Phase 5 threequel, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.

Peyton Reed's divisive MCU adventure fell just shy of the $500 million mark with a lifetime gross $475.4M, but the intergalactic A-holes' final flight took in $60.5 million over the course of its second weekend in the U.S., bringing its global total to $528 million.

This makes Gunn's MCU swansong the highest-grossing comic book movie of the year, and with a 49% second-weekend drop, the Marvel Studios' strongest hold since 2018’s Black Panther and fourth best all-time for the MCU.

GOTG Vol. 3 came in slightly under domestic BO estimates when it debuted, but strong reviews (it's holding at 82% on Rotten Tomatoes) and positive word of mouth have clearly benefitted the emotional trilogy-capper.

The movie will soon face competition, however, with Fast X and Disney's The Little Mermaid right around the corner.

"In Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 our beloved band of misfits are settling into life on Knowhere. But it isn’t long before their lives are upended by the echoes of Rocket’s turbulent past." "Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him on a dangerous mission to save Rocket’s life—a mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them."

Gunn writes and directs Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, featuring Vin Diesel as Groot, Bradley Cooper as Rocket, Sean Gunn, Chukwudi Iwuji, Will Poulter, and Maria Bakalova. Kevin Feige is the producer and Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Nikolas Korda, Simon Hatt, and Sara Smith serve as executive producers.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is now in theaters.

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ThorArms
ThorArms - 5/14/2023, 12:32 PM
$850WW is a lock
marvel72
marvel72 - 5/14/2023, 12:33 PM
Will face competition from Fast X

santoanderson
santoanderson - 5/14/2023, 12:42 PM
@marvel72 - Part of me really hopes Fast X underperforms. That series peaked like 4 movies ago.
AmazingFILMporg
AmazingFILMporg - 5/14/2023, 12:44 PM
@marvel72 -


Yeah but I feel like gotg3 has that great word of mouth. They will both do great
GhostDog
GhostDog - 5/14/2023, 12:34 PM
If it’s lucky will prob have the same global gross as WF when it’s all said and done. A more than healthy $850M
MCUKnight11
MCUKnight11 - 5/14/2023, 12:43 PM
@GhostDog - It's criminal how much that movie gets ignored. Everyone always brings up NWH and Shang chi as the best Phase 4 installments but always seem to forget WF exists.
PantherKing
PantherKing - 5/14/2023, 12:48 PM
@MCUKnight11 - it’s crazy that people seem to forget that good movies existed in phase 4. Phase 4 has been what phase 1 and 2 were minus the avengers movies. It’s only made worse by how bad some of the Disney+ shows were
DocSpock
DocSpock - 5/14/2023, 12:48 PM
@MCUKnight11 -

WF is certainly a very good movie, but NWH, Shang Chi, & MoM were all better.

All very good and entertaining movies. Of course, GotG3 was great and clearly better than those movies.

Blergh
Blergh - 5/14/2023, 12:52 PM
@MCUKnight11 -
1. Black Widow (6/10)
2. Shang-Chi (7/10)
3. Eternals (4/10)
4. Spider-Man: No Way Home (6/10)
5. Doctor Strange 2 (5/10)
6. Thor 4 (5/10)
7. Wakanda Forever (6/10)
8. Ant-Man 3 (5/10)
9. Guardians of the Galaxy 3 (7/10)
MCUKnight11
MCUKnight11 - 5/14/2023, 12:55 PM
@PantherKing - Even then I don't think any of the shows were that bad. Except for She hulk, everything else was good or underrated.
EskimoJ
EskimoJ - 5/14/2023, 12:56 PM
@philinterrupted - Agreed, it truly was. 😏
MCUKnight11
MCUKnight11 - 5/14/2023, 12:56 PM
@DocSpock - I'm glad you like MoM because social media makes it seem like that was one of the installments that damaged the reputation.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 5/14/2023, 12:57 PM
@MCUKnight11 - wakanda Forever was pretty boring. Tough spot for it though with the franchise star passing and then film not featuring its main character T'challa
AmazingFILMporg
AmazingFILMporg - 5/14/2023, 12:58 PM
@MCUKnight11 -


It's just too much content. In one year they had like 8 projects. The good gets lost in the sauce💁



philinterrupted
philinterrupted - 5/14/2023, 1:01 PM
@MCUKnight11 - wakanda forever wasnt that great.
AmazingFILMporg
AmazingFILMporg - 5/14/2023, 1:03 PM
@MCUKnight11 -

1. Black Widow (6/10)
2. Shang-Chi (9/10)
3. Eternals (6.5/10)
4. Spider-Man: No Way Home (9/10)
5. Doctor Strange 2 (7/10)
6. Thor 4 (5/10)
7. Wakanda Forever (8.5/10)
8. Ant-Man 3 (4/10)
9. Guardians of the Galaxy 3 (9.5/10)


💪🤝🕵️♥️🦸🔥🔥🔥🔥
PantherKing
PantherKing - 5/14/2023, 1:05 PM
@MCUKnight11 - You’re absolutely right. I disliked the finale if she hulk more than anything marvel has done but I think Marvel should have used Disney+ sparingly.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 5/14/2023, 1:11 PM
@MCUKnight11 - agreed. And we know why some folks ignore. All of the heart and soul people loved from guardians, Coogler poured into WF as well. Albeit it’s not playing with the the exact themes, but you can’t watch certain scenes in WF and not see the passion and care poured into them. It’s not as tight as Guardians but given the circumstances of rewriting the script and story in a tight amount of time and this is what you get? Impressive.

Also, just a beautiful movie with some gorgeous visuals. Bring that cinematographer back. She worked on Loki too.
MCUKnight11
MCUKnight11 - 5/14/2023, 2:09 PM
@GhostDog - I think the reason is that snobs want the MCU to fail and will ignore WF because if they don't, their arguments hold no merit. Even without Gunn, they'll be fine. They still got Cretton and Coogler. I also have a good feeling about DeCosta, Shakman, and Schreier.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 5/14/2023, 8:14 PM
@PantherKing - I look at it as a percentage of what I liked, per Phase. Phases 1 and 2 only had a total of 12 projects. ) Phase 4 had 15 by itself. But I only disliked 3 of them. (Thor 1, Thor 2, and Iron Man 3). I liked 75% of the MCU's projects in Phase 1 and 2.

Phase 4 had 7 movies and I only like 3 of them. (Shang Chi, Wakanda Forever, and Spider-Man). The rest were anywhere from disappointing to horrible. So out of those, I didn't even like half of their movies. And that's not even counting their D+ shows, which would lower my amount of likes even further, considering I've only liked Loki and WandaVision. Falcon and Winter Soldier was disappointing. I didn't necessarily dislike it, but I didn't like it either.

So if we're counting the shows also, and I don't know why we wouldn't, then we're looking at 15 projects and I only liked 5. So I only liked 33% of what Marvel put out in Phase 4. That's a massive difference.

I'm not sure how to factor in the specials, like Werewolf By Night and Guardians Xmas. So I'll give Marvel the benefit of the doubt and count them as Phase 4 likes. So that's 7 out of 15. Which would mean I only liked 46% of Phase 4.

That's still not very good at all. When it comes to most things, if I don't even like half of it, then it's a failure to me.



DocSpock
DocSpock - 5/14/2023, 8:58 PM
@MCUKnight11 -

The movie goers liked MoM. Nitpicking CBM purists are the ones complaining about it.

SauronthePower
SauronthePower - 5/14/2023, 9:36 PM
@AmazingFILMporg -

Widow (3/10)
Shang-Chi (9/10)
Eternals (6.5/10)
No Way Home (9.5/10)
Multiverse of Madness (5.5/10)
Love and Thunder (3/10)
Wakanda Forever (9/10)
Quantumania (8/10)
Guardians Vol. 3 (10/10)
SauronthePower
SauronthePower - 5/14/2023, 9:38 PM
@AmazingFILMporg - it’s funny, because I did my rankings and then double-checked after posting and saw that we were exact on 4-5 of these. To me ‘Eternals’ can get to a 7 and ‘Love and Thunder’ could sink to a 2, but, other than that, I feel like these are spot on
HulkisHoly
HulkisHoly - 5/14/2023, 11:23 PM
@AmazingFILMporg -


1. Black Widow (5/10)
2. Shang-Chi (5/10)
3. Eternals - didn’t even watch
4. Spider-Man: No Way Home (10/10)
5. Doctor Strange 2 (3/10)
6. Thor 4 (1/10)
7. Wakanda Forever (7/10)
8. Ant-Man 3 - didn’t even watch
9. Guardians of the Galaxy 3 -haven’t seen YET
Pathogen
Pathogen - 5/15/2023, 10:54 AM
@MCUKnight11 - Bro...it wasn't that good.
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