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The box office data underscores just how poorly The Marvels performed. On its first Wednesday—including Tuesday night previews—it earned approximately $8.1 million, dropping to $3.7 million on Thanksgiving Day. Black Friday, typically a strong shopping and movie-going day, brought in only $8 million, with subsequent daily totals declining sharply. By the first Sunday, the film had only managed around $4.4 million, and the following Monday saw a drop of 83%, earning less than $750,000. This drop-off is astonishing, especially considering Disney’s usually robust performance for MCU titles; for context, major Disney films like Strange World last year failed to reach a million on their first Monday, and Strange World was itself a well-documented flop.