{"id":306717,"date":"2025-06-15T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=306717"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:23:16","slug":"marvels-thunderbolts-struggles-to-break-even-at-the-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/marvels-thunderbolts-struggles-to-break-even-at-the-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel&#8217;s Thunderbolts Struggles to Break Even at the Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marvel Studios is facing yet another challenge at the box office with the release of *Thunderbolts*, which has grossed approximately $377.9 million worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite surpassing *The Marvels* ($206.1 million), the film falls short of the $425 million needed to cover its production and promotion expenses\u2014<strong>approximately $180 million in production costs and an additional $100 million for marketing<\/strong>. After six weeks in theaters, profitability now seems unlikely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Thunderbolts?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Thunderbolts<\/a> earned great reviews but has grossed $371 million globally, making it one of the MCU&#39;s lowest-grossing movies. The tentpole needed to make $425 million to break even in theaters, a figure that now seems unachievable.<br><br>\u201cThese lower-tier comic book movies aren\u2019t\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wLKglYWgMN\">pic.twitter.com\/wLKglYWgMN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/1933164888601530718?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thunderbolts&#8217; Box Office Woes: $425 Million Needed to Break Even<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Marvel has experienced a notable downturn in ticket sales. Before 2020, 19 out of 22 Marvel films easily surpassed the $500 million mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In contrast, only six out of 13 films released since the pandemic have achieved that milestone. Notable successes include *Spider-Man: No Way Home* ($1.921 billion) and several other franchise entries that have grossed over $700 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018THUNDERBOLTS*\u2019 has grossed over $369M at the worldwide box office.<br><br>The film has a budget of $180M. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H3fsLkcDd5\">pic.twitter.com\/H3fsLkcDd5<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Cosmic Marvel (@cosmic_marvel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cosmic_marvel\/status\/1929214478039560642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response to these changes in audience reception, Marvel is shifting focus to projects with a higher likelihood of success. Upcoming releases include *Spider-Man 4*, *Avengers: Doomsday*\u2014which will see the return of the Russo brothers and Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom\u2014and the much-anticipated *Fantastic Four*, set to kick off Phase 6 on July 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The future of the MCU may hinge on these high-stakes projects as they aim to reclaim their box office dominance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel Studios is facing yet another challenge at the box office with the release of *Thunderbolts*, which has grossed approximately $377.9 million worldwide. Despite surpassing *The Marvels* ($206.1 million), the film falls short of the $425 million needed to cover its production and promotion expenses\u2014approximately $180 million in production costs and an additional $100 million &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/marvels-thunderbolts-struggles-to-break-even-at-the-box-office\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Marvel&#8217;s Thunderbolts Struggles to Break Even at the Box Office&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9265,"featured_media":302214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1827],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6998],"class_list":["post-306717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-streaming","content-category-videos-en-linea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306721,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306717\/revisions\/306721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306717"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=306717"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=306717"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=306717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}