Thor: Love and Thunder, the fourth movie starring Chris Hemsworth as the Asgardian superhero, was indeed the highest grossing at the box office this past weekend, according to Variety.
The most recent Marvel movie made $143 million in North America and an additional $159 million abroad, for a total of $302 million in its opening weekend worldwide. Love and Thunder outperformed Thor: Ragnarok from 2017, which had a North American opening weekend gross of $123 million.
After 2011’s Thor, 2013’s Thor: The Dark World, and 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok, Love and Thunder is the fourth movie in the Thor saga. At the global box office, the previous three movies did well, earning $449.3 million, $644.8 million, and $854 million, respectively.
“It’s noteworthy that this weekend will reflect a level of normalcy at the box office that has been building since the beginning of the summer movie season with a diverse selection of hits from the superhero, action, comedy, family, indie, and horror genres that are now joined by ‘Thor: Love And Thunder,’” Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore, told CNBC.