How Thunderbolts* Performed During Its First Box Office Weekend, and More
/Film Daily
SlashFilm.com
4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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On the May 5, 2025 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott to talk about the weekend’s box office numbers.
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- Box office top 10
- How did Thunderbolts do? What does this mean for Marvel?
- Marvel's Thunderbolts Isn't Really A Thunderbolts Movie (And That's Disappointing)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Slash Film Daily. |
| 0:02.0 | Today is Monday, May 5th, 2025. |
| 0:04.2 | On today's episode of the show, we're going to be talking about the weekend's box office numbers. |
| 0:08.0 | My name is Ben Pearson. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm an editor at slashfilm.com, and I'm joined on today's episode by Slash Film Staff Writer |
| 0:13.2 | and Box Office analyst Ryan Scott. |
| 0:15.1 | Hey, hey, everyone. |
| 0:15.8 | How's it going? |
| 0:17.0 | All right, Ryan, let's get right into it today. Let's jump into a recap of the top 10 movies at the domestic box office this past weekend. |
| 0:25.5 | You got it, Ben. |
| 0:26.5 | So it was kind of an interesting weekend. |
| 0:27.7 | We'll get into that in a second. |
| 0:28.8 | But this was sort of the first weekend of May, even though it's not technically summer yet, |
| 0:34.6 | this is billed as the official kickoff of summer for Hollywood for the most part. So Marvel did that with releasing Thunderbolts, its new team-up movie. |
| 0:44.0 | That did okay. Did $76 million domestically for most studios and most movies. That would be |
| 0:49.9 | fantastic by Marvel standards. It's merely okay. We'll talk a bit more about that in a minute and |
| 0:54.8 | its long-term prospects. Continuing to kick ass is sinners, dropping to number two in its third |
| 1:01.7 | weekend with just a 28% drop with another $33 million. That is now made almost $180 million domestically. |
| 1:10.2 | It is now one of Hollywood's biggest original movies in years. |
| 1:13.7 | It has made $236.7 million worldwide. |
| 1:17.3 | And, yeah, Warner Brothers looks brilliant for that right now. |
| 1:20.5 | We can talk a little bit more about that here in a bit as well. |
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