In the true spirit of Valentine's Day, Magic Mike's Last Dance topped the Tuesday charts with $1.9 million. This heart-warming tale of Channing Tatum - still waiting for that Gambit movie, dummy! - having sex for money with Salma Hayek, beat out Avatar 2 $1.8 million, Titanic $1.7 million, and 80 for Brady $1.66 million.
Avatar 2 will surpass Jurassic World in the next few days for #9 all time. Titantic is up to $668 million, within $10 million of Infinity War for 7th.
80 for Brady is about to pass Missing for third in 2023 and probably is going to get past Plane for second for the short run as well. Puss n Boots has closed the gap on Black Adam for #10 for 2022 releases down to a bit over $8 million through Tuesday.
Ant-Man debuts later tonight and is expected to make $95-$100 million over the weekend and up to $110 million through President's Day.
The first Ant-Man opened in July 2015 to $57.2 million and made $180 million domestic and $519 million world-wide.
The sequel came out in July 2018 with $75 million and made $216 million domestic at $622 million world-wide.
A February release that is expected to make way more money is thus a pretty interesting gamble.
After this, it's a 3-month wait until GOTG Vol 3 on May 5, followed by the Marvels on July 28.
After that it's a really long wait in Marvel-scape until May 3, 2024 for Captain American: New World Order. That's 10 months with no movies. But then it ramps back up with Thunderbolts on July 26, Blade on September 6, and Deadpool 3 on November 8, and Fantastic 4 2 years from today.
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