‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ box office collection Week 1: Paul Rudd’s superhero film beats Kartik Aaryan’s ‘Shehzada’ to clinch victory – Times of India

Phase five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe may have been off to a rocky start at the box office, but ‘Ant-Man’ swooped in to save the day. Back with its third instalment in the superhero franchise, ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ saw a decent weekend and recorded a good first week at the Indian box office.
Despite not making as much noise as the other MCU films, ‘Quantumania’ earned an estimated Rs 32 crore nett at the Indian box office, taking its collection well ahead of the Bollywood release ‘Shehzada’ starring Kartik Aaryan in the lead role.

After the phenomenal response received by Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Pathaan’, trade gurus were bracing for bigger collections at the box office. Sadly, the collections earned by both films over the past weekend prove that the box office is pretty much where it was before the release of the SRK starrer.

Meanwhile, on the global front, ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ opened with $104 million in domestic ticket sales, surpassing the box-office collections of the previous two ‘Ant-Man’ films. ‘Quantumania’ added another $121.3 million overseas to give the pint-sized hero a $225 million global launch.

It’s easily the largest opening of the year so far. And ‘Quantumania’ did so despite an atypically poor reception for the 31st MCU film. ‘Quantumania’, starring Paul Rudd as Ant-Man, Evangeline Lilly as the Wasp and Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror, sits at 48% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, making it the only MCU film to rank as rotten beside ‘The Eternals’ (47%).