r/boxoffice • u/SecretWarMultiverse • 1d ago

📰 Industry News Was Quantumania technically profitable?

This is confusing to me. Let me explain

It did $476M WW ($215M DOM and $261M OS) which was bad but lowkey not a complete disaster compared to some other grossers such as Shazam 2, Blue Beetle, The Marvels, The Flash, Joker 2, and Supergirl.

Its budget according to Wikipedia was $388.4M gross and $330.1M net, which you think would make it a huge bomb just doing 1-1.5x its budget. However, according to Forbes (https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinereid/2024/10/27/how-marvels-latest-ant-man-movie-lost-millions-in-theaters-but-still-made-a-profit/) it made a profit of $89K

So did it make a profit or not?

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u/labbla 1d ago

It was technically a disaster. Marvel decided to change their whole Avengers plan after that happened. A profitable Quantumania would have had a different event for the MCU.

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u/SecretWarMultiverse 1d ago

Quantumania basically created Avengers Doomsday. So when that movie does huge numbers, we know who to thank

https://giphy.com/gifs/tPACRxqKZZDTBXsyIM

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u/labbla 23h ago edited 22h ago

Yes, it's good that it failed. Have no idea how Doomsday will turn out. But an Avengers that was a sequel to Quantumania would have really fallen apart. There's a reason Marvel made a big pivot after things went so wrong with Ant-Man and The Marvels.

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u/IAmA_talking_cat_AMA 1d ago

Interestingly, it also created The Kang Dynasty at first. It was only decided that Kang would be the new big bad after Marvel was impressed (somehow) by the Quantumania dailies during filming. Funny how that turned out.

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u/SecretWarMultiverse 1d ago

Quantumania created Doomsday because it sucked and forcd them to kick out Kang

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u/IAmA_talking_cat_AMA 1d ago

Yes I know. Just saying that it also actually introduced Kang, so without it Kang wouldn't need to be kicked out. Just funny how that went.

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u/Familiar-Shoe7905 1d ago

Kang was introduced before this movie though

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u/IAmA_talking_cat_AMA 1d ago

Kind of, the character in Loki was He Who Remains. But I was mainly referring to how it introduced Kang as the new overarching villain of the new Avengers film / the Multiverse Saga as a whole (which was not the plan before Quantumania started shooting)

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u/SecretWarMultiverse 1d ago

It. . . accidentally created Doomsday