The Doctor Strange Friday box office numbers are in which sees the film speculated for an $80 million+ opening weekend.
Doctor Strange brought in $32.6 million on Friday, which includes the Thursday night advance screenings ($9.4 million).
The number puts Doctor Strange ahead of Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World, which went on to make $85.7 million in its own opening weekend.
Doctor Strange currently has a worldwide gross of $165,459,000.
Over at Rotten Tomatoes, Doctor Strange is sitting rather nicely with a 90% positive rating among the critics. Now that the movie has been released, the audience score actually went up a point in the past couple of days to 91% favorable.
For an origin story, I think it’s one of Marvel’s better films and beats out Captain America: The First Avenger as well as Thor.
For more on Doctor Strange, check out over 25 Easter Eggs and a deleted scene.
“Doctor Strange” is now in theaters directed by Scott Derrickson starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel McAdams, Tilda Swinton, Benedict Wong, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Mads Mikkelsen.
Synopsis:
Marvel’s Doctor Strange follows the story of the talented neurosurgeon Doctor Stephen Strange who, after a tragic car accident, must put ego aside and learn the secrets of a hidden world of mysticism and alternate dimensions. Based in New York City’s Greenwich Village, Doctor Strange must act as an intermediary between the real world and what lies beyond, utilising a vast array of metaphysical abilities and artifacts to protect the Marvel cinematic universe.
