Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 went on general release last Friday (earlier in some overseas locations), and while the movie did come in ever so slightly below its domestic box office estimates with $118 million, it has exceeded expectations internationally.
James Gunn's emotional threequel took in another $8.9M stateside and $20.5M overseas on Monday to bring its global haul to $318.7M.
Marvel Studios' previous Phase 5 movie, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, opened slightly stronger, but suffered a massive second-week drop that it never managed to recover from. Much better reviews and positive WOM should play a part in keeping audiences in seats for Vol. 3 for the next while, but it will soon face stiff competition from the likes of Fast X and Disney's The Little Mermaid.
As things stand, analysts are predicting that GOTG Vol. 3 should finish its theatrical run slightly above or slightly below Vol. 2, but it's obviously far too early to tell for sure.
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"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.