Fandango is reporting that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has sold more tickets

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in its first 24 hours than any film this year, including The Batman.

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Of course, there haven’t been many “very big” movies thus far this year,

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so if the MCU sequel hadn’t at least come in second for the year (and third since The Batman and Spider-Man: No Way Home),

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there’d be cause for concern. While pre-release ticket sales stats are not one-to-one

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indicators of record-breaking opening weekend box office (I’m old enough to remember when Solo

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A Star Wars Story sold more tickets in day one than Black Panther), studios tend to prefer

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that their big tentpoles sell “more” tickets” on day one as opposed to “fewer” tickets.

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I went into detail on Tuesday about potentially “unfair” expectations

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in terms of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness reasserting the pre-Covid notion

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