New THUNDERBOLTS* Teaser Sees Bucky Assemble The "New Avengers" To Battle Sentry

Marvel Studios has released a new TV spot for Thunderbolts*, and it sees Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) assemble a team to go up against the incredibly powerful being known as Sentry...

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By MarkCassidy - Mar 29, 2025 10:03 PM EST

Filed Under: Thunderbolts

Marvel Studios has released another brief teaser for Thunderbolts*, and it features some new footage of the team going up against the incredibly powerful Sentry.

With the Avengers disbanded, Val (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) convinces the government to send her new team up against the villain, and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) sets about assembling a new line-up of "Earth's Mightiest Heroes" to get the job done.

Marvel Studios’ #Thunderbolts* crashes into theaters May 2. pic.twitter.com/cVCdSoqePW
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) March 29, 2025

We recently got confirmation that the next MCU movie has a fairly standard runtime of 2 hours, 6 minutes, along with an early box office forecast via BoxOfficeTheory.com. Keep in mind that we are still over a month from release, so we'll get a far more accurate prediction once the movie hits tracking.

For now, the site is estimating that Thunderbolts* will take in between $67M-$82M domestically over the course of its opening weekend.

This wouldn't be a bad result for a movie with a (relatively) modest budget of $180M (minus additional costs), especially when you take into account that Thunderbolts* is a fairly obscure property without any major A-list stars (Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan are by far the biggest names).

The main cast of the movie (minus Olga Kurylenko) were confirmed to return for Avengers: Doomsday during Marvel's recent live-stream.

Marvel Studios recently announced the exciting news that Son Lux will be scoring Thunderbolts*. The three-member, American experimental band was Oscar and BAFTA- nominated for their score for 2022’s best picture, Everything Everywhere All at Once.

In Thunderbolts*, Marvel Studios assembles an unconventional team of antiheroes — Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, Ghost, Taskmaster and John Walker. After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap set by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, these disillusioned castoffs must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts. Will this dysfunctional group tear themselves apart, or find redemption and unite as something much more before it’s too late?

Returning to their Marvel Cinematic Universe roles are Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Hannah John-Kamen and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The cast also includes newcomers to the MCU—Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, Chris Bauer and Wendell Edward Pierce.

Jake Schreier directs Thunderbolts* with Kevin Feige producing. Louis D’Esposito, Brian Chapek and Jason Tamez serve as executive producers.

Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* opens in U.S. theaters on May 2, 2025.

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Mrnorth1921 - 3/29/2025, 10:43 PM

If the movie is good to great. I suspect it will make more than 65-84 mil. Maybe 100 and maybe 400-600 mill world wide.

Skestra - 3/29/2025, 10:57 PM

@Mrnorth1921 - Although I still stand by my opinion "Brave New World" is a good movie that shouldn't have been released on Valentine's Day, I suspect "Thunderbolts*" is going to be far more well-received by the general audience and bring in more than $600 mil. I'd venture around $800-900 mil.

NonPlayerC - 3/29/2025, 11:27 PM

@Skestra - I wouldn't say brave new world was good, but im definitely not one of the guys saying it was awful. Its was entertaining enough that I didn't want to stop watching it, but probably won't watch it again. That said I rarely rewatch movies unless they are great. The trailers for this are much more fun than any of the brave new world trailers. Ive got high hopes for this and think it might be the best comic book movie of the year if they don't completely screw sentry up. They really could have waited for him and done a rework of his original comic where he was friends with Mr Fantastic and that would have been great, but he's not that big of a character in the grand scheme so I don't mind them changing the introduction. Again I like the trailer for this more than brave new world, superman, and F4. im thinking as of now that my 2025 ranking will be Thunderbolts>superman=F4>brave new world in that order. hoping super will be the best but the trailer didn't do it for me

Mrnorth1921 - 3/29/2025, 11:55 PM

@Skestra - I hope so. Better reviews and more money means I might get to see a sentry movie before I die. And hopefully a return to the comics.

Taonrey - 3/30/2025, 1:03 AM

@Skestra - disney thought they had another black panther, ignoring the fact that no one cares about Sam Wilson. Brave new world shouldn’t have been released in February but I’d argue good or not it wasn’t going to be a huge hit.

PartyKiller - 3/30/2025, 2:46 AM

@Taonrey - Disney was very fortunate that Captain Falcon was released during one of the most non competitive movie schedules ever.

DarkeyeZ - 3/30/2025, 10:08 AM

@Mrnorth1921 - This is what's wrong with fandom today. Fans discussing how much a movie will make is lame. never did this until the internet. it's sad that people pocket watch as if they will get a cut lol

Feralwookiee - 3/29/2025, 11:06 PM

Off topic: Snow White plummets 68% in it's second week and is knocked out of 1st place by a Jason Statham flick! 🤣

https://deadline.com/2025/03/box-office-snow-white-princess-mononoke-jenna-ortega-death-of-a-unicorn-1236353369/

harryba11zack - 3/29/2025, 11:13 PM

@Feralwookiee -

ToldYaSo - 3/30/2025, 12:41 PM

@Feralwookiee - Even the seven dwar...bandits..pronouns couldn't take Statham!

CorndogBurglar - 3/29/2025, 11:14 PM

"For now, the site is estimating that Thunderbolts* will take in between $67M-$82M domestically over the course of its opening weekend."

No....this would be bad. Very bad. Brave New World opened to a better weekend than this and that movie is struggling to break even, assuming that suppsoed $180 million budget was even true.

I get that Thunderbolts is an obscure franchise, but so was Guardians of the Galaxy when that first came out and it still made good money.

The fact that people are saying its a good thing for a Marvel movie to earn a losing amount of money is absolutely crazy.

MyCoolYoung - 3/30/2025, 12:39 AM

@CorndogBurglar - except this is an early tracking number. Guardians 1 early tracking was 67 million and it exceeded it with 94 million. Why does anyone have to act like the sky is falling months in advance? If the movie opened to 80+ million that’s a win

CorndogBurglar - 3/30/2025, 12:18 PM

@MyCoolYoung - What part of my comment made you think I dont understand this is early tracking? Thats why I said it WOULD be bad. Meaning, if it does open to this, it would not be good.

MyCoolYoung - 3/30/2025, 12:39 PM

@CorndogBurglar – But $82 million is from early tracking. Openings aren’t the only indicator either; a movie can have legs through positive word of mouth.

Also, we live in different times. I know we all like to act as if we can compare box offices to pre-COVID times, but they’ve never fully recovered. The economy is tanking fast—Variety just did a piece on this.

Not every comic book or blockbuster movie is a guaranteed $700 million hit anymore. People are more selective than ever about what they watch, and anyone pointing to outliers to argue otherwise isn’t paying attention. Keeping the budget modest is crucial. Ant-Man 3 turned a small profit according to Forbes, and that’s all you can ask of Thunderbolts.

“The recovery has been much slower than people hoped,” says Eric Handler, an exhibition industry analyst with Roth Capital Partners. “It’s been a struggle. You’ve had companies go out of business, and most of the major chains closed locations.”

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/movie-theaters-comeback-screens-shut-down-box-office-slump-1236347993/

I say all this to say, these numbers are for the studios to worry about. Make good movies and hope people come watch. I’m not panicking in advance for a genre it’s diehards are actively pushing to kill

CorndogBurglar - 3/30/2025, 1:08 PM

@MyCoolYoung - Again, I'm fully aware this is from early tracking. I get it. I know that. I understand. I'm not sure how else I can say it.

As for budget, yes, I fully understand that as well. So these studios need to reign in these budgets. They are hurting themselves.

And yes, I also realize people are going to the movies less. But you cant rule out the outliers either because they prove something very important.

They prove that if studios make projects that people WANT to see then customers will still show up in large numbers.

Barbie. Oppenheimer. Top Gun 2. Even other CBM's like Dr Strange 2, Guardians 3, Deadpool and Wolverine, Thor 4, Black Panther 2....I can keep going as well. But these movies prove that if you focus on characters and things people care about they will still show up. All those movies I mentioned made anywhere from good to incredible box office numbers. And some aren't even good. Dr Strange 2 is widely considered a mediocre movie at best. Thor 4 is largely considered one of the worst MCU movies to date, but they both almost made a billion at the box office.

Why? Because they are characters people like and are invested in.

Meanwhile, movies like the Eternals and the Marvels struggled to make any profit at all. The Marvels was the lowest box office MCU film to date.

Even D+ shows like She-Hulk or Ms Marvel were complete failures and people can watch those for free from their own home as long as they have D+, which is much cheaper than a trip to the movies.

The Marvels failed miserably because it focused on a character with a controversial actress, another character thay only appeared briefly in a couple episodes of WandaVision, and another character with one of the 3 lowest viewed shows on D+. Is it any wonder that movie failed?

Yet the popular characters people are invested in all make good money.

This isnt an outlier, this is a pattern. An outlier would be a popular character like Daredevil pulling low numbers. That is an outlier, not the norm.

The fact is the MCU has made a lot of decisions that a large part of their audience would consider bad. Its destroyed their reputation and people aren't just willing to go spend money on them anymore simply because its Marvel. Even characters like Thor might struggle to make good money now if they end up making Thor 5, because Thor 4 was so god awful.

So yeah, the theatres are struggling. But some things can continue to do well, and that has been proven time and again.

At this point, Marvel just needs to get the Multiverse Saga over with as soon as possible, sift reboot their universe, and put all their eggs in making a coherent overall story and limiting their focus to character people care about. Everyone else can be side characters.

NinnesMBC - 3/29/2025, 11:46 PM

I'm starting to think that Bucky was trailing the Thunderbolts* because he knew that Bob's alter ego was not something that should've been released/unleashed so that is why he captures them and forces them to help him stop Sentry because he sees them as responsible for the whole mess that will transpire.

I lol'ed at him headbutting that henchman though.

TheVisionary25 - 3/30/2025, 12:10 AM

I kinda love seeing how far Bucky has come by seemingly being the one that really unites this team together and helps the others find redemption as he has…

I wouldn’t mind if he’s the leader of the team honestly then Yelena or Walker.

NinnesMBC - 3/30/2025, 12:31 AM

@TheVisionary25 - This is how his road to one day inherit the Cap mantle and shield from Sam begins.

bkmeijer1 - 3/30/2025, 5:10 AM

@TheVisionary25 @NinnesMBC - I feel this is part of the arc showing he doesn't need the mantle or shield to be the leader. A captain doesn't can't lead a team like this, but Bucky can

mck13 - 3/30/2025, 12:25 AM

Ppl are tired of Marvel..it will FAIL! Like SUPERMAN

RitoRevolto - 3/30/2025, 1:38 AM

@mck13 - Oh brother. Yall don't get tired of this shit? 🙄

WEAPONXOXOXO - 3/30/2025, 8:49 AM

@mck13 - You also seem tired of making full sentences. ;)

ToldYaSo - 3/30/2025, 12:44 PM

@mck13 - Regular ray of sunshine, aren't ya? Move along kid. This site already has one ridiculous, nonsense spewing troll. Go check out screen rant...

Gabimaru - 3/30/2025, 2:11 AM

I hope this movie wins over alot of general audience again. Because nobody give a damn about the last entry brave new world when it release in my country. I hope this one delivers.

PartyKiller - 3/30/2025, 3:09 AM

The promotion is not good. Some Suicide Squad scenes. Generic action shots of characters most people don't recognize. A blotted out Dr. Manhattan. It is not giving people a hook to reel them in.

There is no "You have got to see this movie!" moment in the trailers and promos. Marvel is still making content as if they are still super-popular. Like they can throw out D-list projects people will buy just to follow the MCU story. But once a hot TV/movie series gives people bad episodes, it makes them give up on following. They stop caring about what happens. And that has happened with Marvel's Phase-DEI.

MarvelZombie616 - 3/30/2025, 3:40 AM

Thinderbolts* having a budget the same as a Captain America movie is insane.

This should have had a $80-100 million budget.

It should be marketet as NEW AVENGERS to make the 2.5 multipler of $450 million.
Advertising isn't even included.

I agree that this looks fun, but it has B to C list characters.

Needs to be lucky to earn a profit.

Even Superman and F4 will need to be really good to turn a profit.

SuperiorHeckler - 3/30/2025, 9:20 AM

@MarvelZombie616 - When it comes to cranking-out a SUICIDE SQUAD sequel, "B and C" list characters are the EXACT characters you want. 😁

ObserverIO - 3/30/2025, 5:15 AM

She told us The Avengers weren't coming and we didn't listen to her.

Then we saw the chairs video and realized that instead of an Avengers Vs X-Men movie we're getting half of the X-Men Vs Thunderbolts. *sigh* we better be getting more chairs videos.

MadThanos - 3/30/2025, 5:25 AM

Who has the best haircut?

Yelena or Bucky? 😂

ToldYaSo - 3/30/2025, 12:45 PM

@MadThanos - Green Lanturd?

AllsNotGood - 3/30/2025, 7:08 AM

Only Bucky and sentry has me interested in this film but I doubt it will be an accurate sentry

Mrnorth1921 - 3/30/2025, 12:02 PM

@AllsNotGood - Paul Jenkins was hired as creative consultant for the movie. So sentry will be close.

SuperiorHeckler - 3/30/2025, 9:17 AM

SUICIDE SQUAD 3* 😄

MakeAmericaGrea - 3/30/2025, 9:57 AM

They are not Avengers.

Stop trying to make this flop happen!

DarkeyeZ - 3/30/2025, 10:10 AM

I'm excited can't wait.

CplHicks - 3/30/2025, 1:47 PM

So Bucky puts the team together but Yelena is the central figure. okay.

Batmangina - 3/30/2025, 10:11 PM

Currently rewatching the GREAT parts of the MCU - just finished CA: TWS it's so [frick]ing good that anyone working on the MCU for the last five years should be [frick]ING ASHAMED of themselves and that goes TRIPLE for any MCU apologists out there.

Corruptor - 3/31/2025, 7:27 AM

Nobody asked for a Bucky movie.

Bucky couldn't put his own ass together never mind the Avengers. Yelena looks like a soccer mom.

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New THUNDERBOLTS* Teaser Sees Bucky Assemble The "New Avengers" To Battle Sentry

Marvel Studios has released a new TV spot for Thunderbolts*, and it sees Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) assemble a team to go up against the incredibly powerful being known as Sentry...

THUNDERBOLTS* Final Runtime Revealed Along With Early Box Office Forecast & New Promo Art

Is The AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Cast Announcement Really A THUNDERBOLTS* Ad?

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