Doctor Strange has picked up the box-office baton from Spider-Man: No Way Home and posted impressive figures on its first day of overseas release, bringing in $27M from 20 international territories.
Cast your mind back through the multiverse to 2016, when Scott Derrickson’s original solo Stephen Strange outing grossed $232M domestically and $677M worldwide, and it’s clear that despite mixed reviews – read our take ★★★ here – the Marvel machine is a very different beast to what it was then, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will obliterate those numbers this weekend.
The Hollywood Reporter revealed that the opening day tally of $27M didn’t include preview grosses from some territories, which is notable considering the film scored $1.9M in Australia, the highest evening preview of all time there.
SEE ALSO: Watch our SPOILER review of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness here
The international opening day earnings for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness are currently running just 4% behind Spider-Man: No Way Home, which should come as little surprise because the films are so intrinsically linked to one another. It’s also running 210% ahead of 2022’s biggest grossing film The Batman.
In Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the MCU unlocks the Multiverse and pushes its boundaries further than ever before. Journey into the unknown with Doctor Strange, who, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary.
Directed by Sam Raimi, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness stars Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange), Benedict Wong (Wong), Rachel McAdams (Christine Palmer), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Mordo), Michael Stuhlbarg (Nicodemus West) and Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet Witch) as well as MCU newcomer Xochitl Gomez (The Baby-Sitters Club) as America Chavez.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is in cinemas all over the multiverse NOW!
Originally published May 6, 2022. Updated June 9, 2022.
