THUNDERBOLTS* To Pass $100M At Domestic Box Office Today; New Sentry Promo Art Revealed

Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* will pass $100 million at the domestic box office today as the movie enters its second weekend in theaters. We also have a new look at Lewis Pullman as The Sentry...

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By MarkCassidy - May 09, 2025 01:05 PM EST

Filed Under: Thunderbolts

Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* - or The New Avengers, if you prefer - is set to hit a major box office milestone at some point today.

As the 36th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe enters its second weekend in theaters, it will become the fourth movie this year to pass $100 million domestically, joining A Minecraft Movie, Captain America: Brave New World, and Sinners.

The Jake Schreier-directed antihero team-up flick is expected to hold on to the No. 1 spot, and is not likely to face much in the way of completion from any of Friday's new releases - although RLJE/Shudder's Clown in a Cornfield is sure to draw in the horror crowds.

Thunderbolts* had a reported production budget of $180 million (minus P&E), so it still has a long way to go to turn a profit for the studio. The movie does seem to be benefitting from positive reviews and word of mouth, and definitely seemed to get a boost from the New Avengers rebranding.

Check out a new teaser and some new promo art featuring Lewis Pullman suited-up as the Sentry below.

New Sentry ‘THUNDERBOLTS*’ promotional art. pic.twitter.com/CbUHyASM4T
— *The New Avengers News (@tbolts_news) May 9, 2025

"This has makings of a team that can raise to glory" ⚡️

Marvel Studios’ T̶h̶u̶n̶d̶e̶r̶b̶o̶l̶t̶s̶* #TheNewAvengers is now playing in theaters. Get tickets: https://t.co/bFq0RNeRhc pic.twitter.com/wsBce6Ihwn
— Marvel Studios* (@MarvelStudios) May 9, 2025

Let us know what you made of Thunderbolts* The New Avengers by voting in the poll below, and be sure to elaborate in the comments section.

They have a̶r̶r̶i̶v̶e̶d̶ assembled!

T̶h̶u̶n̶d̶e̶r̶b̶o̶l̶t̶s̶* The New Avengers is now playing in theaters. Get tickets: https://t.co/bFq0RNfp6K https://t.co/lIUa8CJCBx pic.twitter.com/8YiRGAVpfE
— Marvel Studios* (@MarvelStudios) May 5, 2025

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Marvel Studios’ #Thunderbolts* is the #1 movie in the world.

Get your tickets now: https://t.co/bFq0RNeRhc pic.twitter.com/34aIm3u0SH
— Marvel Studios* (@MarvelStudios) May 4, 2025

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.

THUNDERBOLTS* Writer On Possible Scarlett Johansson Cameo And Scrapped Sprawling And Huge Adamantium Story

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McMurdo - 5/9/2025, 1:52 PM

Gonna flop unfortunately

ShellHead - 5/9/2025, 1:56 PM

@McMurdo - who are you, that can see the future? Who showed you this power

EskimoJ - 5/9/2025, 2:12 PM

@ShellHead - Who controls the would-be box office prognosticator?

grif - 5/9/2025, 2:42 PM

@ShellHead - dont need to be able to see the future when its sitting on your face

lvcl - 5/9/2025, 3:00 PM

@McMurdo -

The New Wokengers !!!

Malatrova15 - 5/9/2025, 1:54 PM

Is a flor Mcu is dead

Kadara - 5/9/2025, 1:57 PM

Nice to hear and I think, based on overall positive feedback from actual people, not the paid posters, it will pull in even more revenue this weekend. I had doubts about about Lewis Pullman as Sentry but man it turned out to be great casting.

DarthOmega - 5/9/2025, 2:02 PM

@Kadara - That guy is getting unanimous praise for that role. Literally every review, even the ones that were pretty critical all gave him the highest praise for his performance. I can't wait to have a damn day off so I can finally watch it.

ObserverIO - 5/9/2025, 2:50 PM

@Kadara - Are you saying it's going to earn more in it's second weekend than in it's opening weekend? That would be highly unusual. But it would take a miracle like that to give it a chance of breaking even.

Kadara - 5/9/2025, 4:01 PM

@ObserverIO - I think so, I think people were hesitant as Marvel has been disappointing as of late, so I can see people being more careful to splash their cash, especially in these economic uncertainty times. But I think the good word of mouth and ramped up promotions will put more people over the fence. The nice weather is also a contributing factor as we seem to have finally hit spring.

ObserverIO - 5/9/2025, 5:49 PM

@Kadara - And it's New Avengers now, that's gotta count for something.

Kadara - 5/9/2025, 6:12 PM

@ObserverIO - Right? Not everyone follows the Marvel world so they may have been confused by Thunderbolts lol!

WakandaTech - 5/9/2025, 2:01 PM

I can’t believe I live in a world where the Sentry’s suit is
better than James Gunn Superman suit

Lisa89 - 5/9/2025, 2:03 PM

@WakandaTech -

Huskers - 5/9/2025, 2:04 PM

@WakandaTech - Aren’t they all made by about the same people? Hence the fact they both have a bunch of unnecessary lines and a collar, and the cape attached about the same way.

WakandaTech - 5/9/2025, 2:22 PM

@Huskers -
Yeah but Gunn Superman suit looks baggy and the red trunk looks more like a diaper

Blergh - 5/9/2025, 2:30 PM

@WakandaTech - I really don’t mind the new Supes suit, sure it’s over designed but so have most movie suits been since the 80s. Rouths suit was too plasticy, Cavill had too much armor-esque fabric.

The best suit in a while was Hoechlins flashback suit as far as homemade goes.

ogrodafloresta - 5/9/2025, 2:38 PM

@WakandaTech - Is it? Did you watch the movie? It’s so weird that it stays just a handful of minutes on-screen…

ObserverIO - 5/9/2025, 2:54 PM

@WakandaTech - But Gunn didn't cast a Jimmy Olsen type to wear the suit.

At least not with Superman. He did with Adam Warlock.

MaxPaint - 5/9/2025, 2:59 PM

@WakandaTech - Not a hard thing to accomplish. Being better than some mediocrity is not a feat.

Huskers - 5/9/2025, 2:02 PM

I’m curious as to how it’s faring at this point when compared to Falcon Cap? Because if it’s not performing better, it could be in trouble. Concerned this won’t do as well because it’s an unknown commodity. Marvel just doesn’t have the clout to open on name brand alone anymore. Which is a shame because this is their best film in a while.

HashTagSwagg - 5/9/2025, 2:07 PM

@Huskers - This didn't undergo at least 3 significant reshoot phases during its production so if it bombs/under performs, it wont be nearly as devastating as Captain Falcon was.

Shivermetimbers - 5/9/2025, 2:17 PM

@Huskers - Brave new world opened to over $100mil over the four day Presidents’ Day weekend, so thunderbolts is actually pacing worse but I believe it will have a better hold so time will tell how they compare over their entire runs.

ObserverIO - 5/9/2025, 2:59 PM

@Huskers - BNW got $113,005,738 domestic from Feb 14-20 (first week).

It ultimately flopped, earning $414m worldwide with a reported break even point of $425m.

Both movies have a budget of $180m.

New Avengers will flop.

Scarilian - 5/9/2025, 5:12 PM

@Huskers -
"I’m curious as to how it’s faring at this point when compared to Falcon Cap?"

With the numbers we have, it's doing worse than the Falcon Cap movie.

You can compare box office, at least domestically and overall, via a site known as The Numbers that has a box office comparison - though you need to give it time to update.

The last update we had was for the 1st Wednesday of Thunderbolts run, its domestic box office total was $91,090,997 and this article boasts it'll hit $100m on its 1st Friday.

Comparatively, Captain America 4 hit $100m+ on its 1st Monday and was sitting at $109,760,406 on its 1st Wednesday.

"Marvel just doesn’t have the clout to open on name brand alone anymore."

A lot of factors, brand damage is definitely one of them. Though it is worth acknowledging the marketing for this film is a mess, they had no idea what to focus on. After all the trailers, they eventually decided that this is the 'depression' movie - and that's not particularly something the audience are invested in from a superhero flick.

AnthonyVonGeek - 5/9/2025, 2:21 PM

Remember when Marvel movies made $100 Million a day or two after release?

Still a fun movie.

WEAPONXOXOXO - 5/9/2025, 2:25 PM

I hope it does well for ALLSGOOD's state of mind. I'm concerned that he might do something weird if it underperforms....
like... get a life or something.

MarvelousMarty - 5/9/2025, 2:34 PM

A great movie but superhero fatigue is real.

grif - 5/9/2025, 2:41 PM

@MarvelousMarty - no flops are real. ruined franchises are real

soberchimera - 5/9/2025, 3:00 PM

@MarvelousMarty - I think it’s more shared universe fatigue.

DarthOmega - 5/9/2025, 6:39 PM

@MarvelousMarty - People don't want to admit it but it's true. We will see how F4 Doomsday and Secret Wars does at the Box office, but I think the Superhero movie's best days are behind them. I think we will see diminishing returns unfortunately. 25 years is a decent run. A very decent run.

grif - 5/9/2025, 2:40 PM

the first avengers flop

Scarilian - 5/9/2025, 5:17 PM

@grif -
I think it'll be interesting seeing how Doomsday and Secret Wars compare. They'll definitely be wanting Infinity War numbers, the 1.4bn of Age Of Ultron may actually not be profitable for a film as expensive as Avengers: Doomsday or Secret Wars.

MyCoolYoung - 5/9/2025, 2:48 PM

Movies have to scale back their budgets. The days of guaranteed $700 million–$1 billion grosses are over. Whatever it makes is for them to figure out. I saw it, brought the family out; we enjoyed it. That's all I have for them.

ObserverIO - 5/9/2025, 3:01 PM

@MyCoolYoung - They just need to make the movies accessible again and audiences will return.

I prescribe a ground zero reboot.

ObserverIO - 5/9/2025, 3:06 PM

I say "return" but actually there are movie audiences that have never seen a Marvel movie in theaters ever. Or on streaming even. And that audience is growing in number every day.

A reboot will bring these audiences in for the first time and will bring back the audience that became overwhelmed with the old MCU and it's accumulation of continuity through many many hours (actually days and days) worth of lesser movies and TV shows.

TheVisionary25 - 5/9/2025, 3:40 PM

@MyCoolYoung - agreed though 180 million for a blockbuster is pretty modest so idk how much lower you could go…

Anyway , hopefully this is a case of a slow build to a good payoff as in it being successful financially.

MyCoolYoung - 5/9/2025, 4:11 PM

@ObserverIO – Unless that reboot came with 2-3 years of no movies or shows, I don’t think it’s needed.

The sad reality is, even though there are some outliers, box offices are still below pre-pandemic levels. People like watching stuff from the comfort of their homes. Theaters are expensive—no one can deny that.

People take a movie doing well and say, “See? It’s you not making good movies.” Sinners, what people are calling the best movie so far this year, didn’t make crazy bank.

But people will say, “Look at what Barbie and Oppenheimer did… it’s you making terrible movies.”

The reality is, people want to go see event movies in droves. The next Avengers movie will make a lot of money—we know that. Deadpool & Wolverine made great cash, Spider-Man: No Way Home too. The demise of the MCU has been very overstated when, in actuality, a lot of their movies still make money. They just need another event movie and to build off that momentum, in my opinion

MyCoolYoung - 5/9/2025, 4:13 PM

@TheVisionary25 — Definitely pretty modest. I guess I was speaking generally. As far as this film goes, I don't know; maybe people were skeptical after *Captain America 4*, even though we both enjoyed it, the general audience didn't seem to.

New age box office has really been hard to predict

TheVisionary25 - 5/9/2025, 4:23 PM

@MyCoolYoung - yeah though it’s got a 78% audience score on RT and Thunderbolts has 94…

I honestly don’t know anymore but perhaps people felt they could just watch these at home

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THUNDERBOLTS* To Pass $100M At Domestic Box Office Today; New Sentry Promo Art Revealed

Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* will pass $100 million at the domestic box office today as the movie enters its second weekend in theaters. We also have a new look at Lewis Pullman as The Sentry...

THUNDERBOLTS* Writer On Possible Scarlett Johansson Cameo And Scrapped "Sprawling And Huge" Adamantium Story

THUNDERBOLTS* Still Reveals First Official Look At The Sentry; New BTS Costume Photos Revealed

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