Creed 3 breaks a massive opening weekend box office record in a single day

Expected to be the best in the entire franchise, Creed 3’s opening weekend broke a major box office record in just a single day.

creed 3 broke an opening weekend box office record in just a single day. The film, which opened March 3, is the third film in the Believe franchise, which is itself a spin-off of the long-running boxing franchise Rocky. Michael B. Jordan, who appears as boxing champion Adonis Creed, reprized his role for this entry, which was also his directorial debut. Also joining the film’s cast is Jordan’s compatriot from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Jonathan Majors (who plays the villain Kang, last seen in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania) as well as Tessa Thompson, Wood Harris, Florian Munteanu and Phylicia Rashad.

Per meetingthe opening day of creed 3 has already grossed $22 million at the domestic box office. Not only is the film on track to be the franchise’s strongest opening weekend, it also broke a box office record for Amazon Studios, which recently acquired the film’s parent company, MGM. In just a single day, the film had the highest opening weekend of any film Amazon has brought to theaters.

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Creed isn’t the only MGM franchise that could see Amazon dominating the box office

Amazon Studios was previously known for smaller releases more geared towards awards suitability, including the 2016 Oscar winner Manchester by the sea. The previous record holder for the opening weekend was the 2017 comedy The big sick with eternal‘ Kumail Nanjiani, who grossed $7.56 million in a single weekend. Not only creed 3 signaling a shift in Amazon’s overall publishing strategy, it’s likely a shot across the bow at the box office heralding their arrival in the big leagues.

Now that they have access to the MGM library, Amazon Studios will likely continue to release franchise blockbusters to replicate this weekend’s success. So far, the franchises appear to be ripe for harvest. they include RoboCop, GI JoeAnd jump road.

Other franchises they have technical access to include Naturally blond, James BondAnd The Addams familywho already have other ongoing or developing projects. It seems unlikely that Amazon Studios will throw a wrench into the upcoming one Naturally blonde 3 even though it’s trapped in production hell. They’ll probably leave Netflix too Wednesday breathe, although they are most likely already looking for the next one creed 3 in their extensive catalogue.

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Source: Deadline