'Thor: Love and Thunder' remains No. 1 film in North America

Marvel's "Thor: Love and Thunder" managed to snag three new nationwide releases to remain the No. 1 film in North America.

Although ticket sales for “Thor” plummeted in the second weekend, dropping 68% from 4,375 theaters to $46 million, the latest installment in Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe easily stunned a trio of newcomers: Sony's literary adaptation of "Where the Crowds" Sing," Paramount's animated "Pause of Fury: The Legend of Hank" and the focus feature period drama "Mrs. Harris goes to Paris." After 10 days on the big screen, "Love and Thunder" collected 232 million at the domestic box office. dollars and grossed $497.9 million globally.

As for "Thor," the fourth superhero adventure to spot Chris Hemsworth as the Asgardian god with abs that won't leave, a nearly 68% drop is indicating that the film is ahead of the Comic Book Empire's (albeit huge) fanbase. Not breaking. While "Love and Thunder" will certainly end with a decent amount at its box office, it is not ideal for a film of its size and scope to lose such a significant portion of its audience so quickly after the weekend. Give. It also marked one of the biggest second weekend drops in MCU history, next to May's "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness," which marked a 67% drop in its sophomore outing. (Disney's "Strange" sequel film still grossed a whopping $411 million domestically). By comparison, recent Marvel entries were able to outperform, with a 61% drop in "Eternal" and a 52% drop in "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings"...Reuters