'Thunderbolts*' stormed to a promising start for Marvel's latest! The ensemble superhero pic, led by Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan, kicked off the summer box office with $11.5 million in Thursday previews.
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00:00We can be the ones that are coming, but you have the wrong people. We have all done bad things.
00:08Thunderbolts stormed to a promising start for Marvel's latest. The ensemble superhero pick
00:13led by Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan kicked off the summer box office with $11.5 million
00:19in Thursday previews. The pick is winning over critics and audiences alike, with Thunderbolts
00:25boasting a 95% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, one of the top four scores for a title in the Marvel
00:31Cinematic Universe. Tracking suggests the movie will open in the $70 million to $73 million range
00:44domestically and $160 million to $175 million globally. By comparison, Marvel's Captain America
00:52Brave New World had an audience Rotten Tomatoes score of 92% when opening to $88.8 million
00:58earlier this year. That film's critic score was 48%, compared to a glowing 89% for Thunderbolts.
01:06Directed by Jake Schreier, the film brings together a band of dysfunctional outsiders
01:10and lesser-known comic book characters who discover their potential to be heroes when
01:15working together. For more on this story, head to THR.com. And for the latest entertainment news
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