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

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.

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.

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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.

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McMurdo
McMurdo - 5/9/2025, 1:52 PM
Gonna flop unfortunately
ShellHead
ShellHead - 5/9/2025, 1:56 PM
@McMurdo - who are you, that can see the future? Who showed you this power
EskimoJ
EskimoJ - 5/9/2025, 2:12 PM
@ShellHead - Who controls the would-be box office prognosticator?
grif
grif - 5/9/2025, 2:42 PM
@ShellHead - dont need to be able to see the future when its sitting on your face
lvcl
lvcl - 5/9/2025, 3:00 PM
@McMurdo -

The New Wokengers !!!
Rokhorn
Rokhorn - 5/10/2025, 6:58 AM
@ShellHead - it doesnt take a genius to look at market data and make educated predictions.

:‘Thunderbolts*’ Looking At 53% Drop At Weekend Box Office" thats from forbes saying thunder bolts will make $30 mil this weekend. The third weekend it will make half of that and so on. How much did Cap 4 end up making? $414 mil?
YouIknowiamsexy
YouIknowiamsexy - 5/10/2025, 10:00 AM
@grif - That's a good way to put it............
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 5/9/2025, 1:54 PM
Is a flor Mcu is dead
Kadara
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
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
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
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
ObserverIO - 5/9/2025, 5:49 PM
@Kadara - And it's New Avengers now, that's gotta count for something.
Kadara
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
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
Lisa89 - 5/9/2025, 2:03 PM
@WakandaTech - User Comment Image
Huskers
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
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
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
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
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
MaxPaint - 5/9/2025, 2:59 PM
@WakandaTech - Not a hard thing to accomplish. Being better than some mediocrity is not a feat.
Huskers
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
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
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
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
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
AnthonyVonGeek - 5/9/2025, 2:21 PM
Remember when Marvel movies made $100 Million a day or two after release?
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Still a fun movie.
WEAPONXOXOXO
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
MarvelousMarty - 5/9/2025, 2:34 PM
A great movie but superhero fatigue is real.
grif
grif - 5/9/2025, 2:41 PM
@MarvelousMarty - no flops are real. ruined franchises are real
soberchimera
soberchimera - 5/9/2025, 3:00 PM
@MarvelousMarty - I think it’s more shared universe fatigue.
DarthOmega
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.
YouIknowiamsexy
YouIknowiamsexy - 5/10/2025, 10:02 AM
@MarvelousMarty - Superhero fatigue is not real! Bad writing and agendas is what is killing the genre. The girl boss ish has been done to death and people are sick of it. F4 is next! To make Sue the boss and gender swap the Silver Surfer is a slap in the face to fans after you just said you'd stop. And people are kidding themselves if they think F4 won't follow the same pattern as this. Disney knows this and STILL insist on doing this.
grif
grif - 5/9/2025, 2:40 PM
the first avengers flop
Scarilian
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
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
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
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
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.
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