Thunderbolts - New Avengers Second Weekend Box Office Comes In Lower at $32M

In a repeat of the opening weekend, the box office numbers for the rebranded Thunderbolts to New Avengers are also coming in lower for its second weekend.

While first it was estimated the second weekend gross would be $35 million, and then it was revised to $33.1M, the actuals are lower at $32.4M, a 56.4% drop.

Weekend Actuals for #Thunderbolts* came lower, grossing 32.4M on 2nd 3-day weekend at US #BoxOffice!#FlorencePugh faced a -56.4% #15 biggest drop in MCU history, but still #4 best Post-Covid (see bellow)#TheNewAvengers hits 127.7M US cume!

MCU 2nd weekend drops:#BlackPanther… pic.twitter.com/O1RszpS9Ox
— Luiz Fernando (@Luiz_Fernando_J) May 12, 2025

You’ll note that $32.4M is exactly where I predicted the second weekend box office would go, as it lines up with Shang-Chi‘s numbers, which had a higher Friday and higher $34.7M second weekend gross. How could Thunderbolts have a higher weekend if its Friday was lower? Talk about industry spin to create FOMO in order to get fans to show up. Well, just like the first week, they didn’t.

The opening weekend was also initially reported higher by the trades, but when all was said in done, was actually lower. Thunderbolts only opened to $74.3M, which is the second-lowest MCU box office opening. That second weekend is also the fifth-lowest in MCU history.

The international box office numbers are also really soft. It’s possible Thunderbolts might not even hit $100M. After ten days, Cap 4 only added around another $60M domestically and finished with $200.4M domestically and $415M worldwide. Check out the Tbolts numbers below.

Thunderbolts - New Avengers Posts Fourth-Lowest Friday Box Office In MCU History

Superhero fatigue? No. M-She-U fatigue

Typical. The blame game is being played. “Superhero fatigue” is again being thrown around in addition to the excuse that Marvel and Kevin Feige have been stretched too thin (but according to Bob Iger this marks the new Marvel!).

However, it’s not superhero fatigue that is too blame or too much content, it’s that all the content except for a couple of projects has sucked due to the choice of creative direction.

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Women don’t care

For Thunderbolts, the movie is basically a sequel to Black Widow (that nobody watched or wanted), featuring Florence Pugh as Yelena. The movie and the marketing center around Yelena. Well, as proven by the big failure of The Marvels, the female audience doesn’t care about female-driven superhero movies. Ditto with Madame Web. The women would rather show up to watch a shirtless Hugh Jackman. It didn’t work for Star Wars.

Why not more Sebastian Stan as Winter Soldier? Or more from The Sentry?

Disney also added over 900 theaters to Snow White amid Thunderbolts being in its second weekend in the hopes the female audience would show up for Mother’s Day because they aren’t for New Avengers. Guess what? That also backfired. Women can’t stand actresses like Rachel Zegler and Brie Larson. Disney was better off keeping Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith in theaters and not yanking it early because of Thunderbolts.

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Kevin Feige clueless

Also, as I went over, rebranding to New Avengers is a complete joke and shows just how out of touch Kevin Feige is with the fans. The New Avengers were huge in the comics and consisted of Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man, Wolverine, and others. That’s like pairing Robert Downey Jr. with Chris Evans, Tom Holland, and Hugh Jackman. Instead? Feige comes up with the bright idea to rebrand a bunch of nobodies to the super team of New Avengers in a desperate attempt to sell the movie? It’s unbelievable, as are all the creative choices from Feige post-Endgame. The amount of misfires is mind-blowing. It has to be questioned if they are actually that incompetent or if that has been the plan all along.