Were you fearful that Eternals’ middling critiques would someway have an effect on Marvel’s capacity to make tens of millions upon tens of millions of {dollars}? Let me put your thoughts comfortable. The film, which debuted this previous Friday, earned $71 million domestically over the weekend, a staggering sum of money that’s virtually definitely nonetheless managed to go away quite a lot of rich Marvel executives dismayed.

While Eternals was nonetheless #1 on the field workplace, crushing the #2-ranked Dune by greater than $63 million, the movie was estimated to make between $75-80. That provides Eternals solely the fourth highest-grossing opening weekend because the pandemic started, and the highest three are all different Marvel superhero movies—Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings with $75.4 million, Black Widow with $80.4 million, and Sony’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage topping the chart with $90 million, all based on Box Office Mojo. For what was clearly speculated to be Marvel Studios’ first flagship Phase 4 movie, with an enormous solid of stars and directed by Academy Award-winner Chloé Zhao, that’s received to be a disappointment.

Eternals’ poor critiques are the most probably wrongdoer, particularly because it’s the one film within the Marvel Cinematic Universe at the moment sitting on Rotten Tomatoes with an precise rotten tomato icon, with solely 48% optimistic critiques. How a lot audiences take inventory in Rotten Tomatoes is after all up for debate however the incontrovertible fact that the Eternals characters have had just about no popular culture presence earlier than the film—they’ve barely even been in Marvel’s comics, for goodness’ sake—certainly didn’t assist, particularly with their vaguely outlined… all the things. But actually, as many critics have identified, the movie’s largest flaw is that Zhao’s attention-grabbing movie turns into one other Marvel biff-bang-pow VFX beat-em-up on the finish.

I’ve mentioned this earlier than, however I’m wondering what number of nights Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige has lain awake in his mattress, staring on the ceiling, and cursing the previous Marvel tv division for screwing up the Inhumans so, so, so badly. They’re the way more attention-grabbing model of the Eternals and have many extra comedian tales to attract film inspiration from. Sure, the 2 Jack Kirby creations are each bizarre, however the Inhumans are extra compellingly bizarre. And inform me, which superhero sounds extra attention-grabbing: The one who shoots laser bolts out of his fingers or the one who can stage a metropolis with a whisper?

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