Despite slipping to the No.2 spot in the UK box-office rankings this week Thor: Ragnarok is still on course to be one of the biggest-grossing films of 2017.
The light-hearted superhero action caper directed by Jewish-Maori New Zealander Taika Waititi breaks the ’threequel’ curse, which generally dictates that the third film in a series is the weakest performer, tracking significantly ahead of its two predecessors in the Thor series at this point.
Earning $121 million in the US from its first weekend Thor: Ragnarok enjoyed the seventh largest opening ever for a film in the overarching Marvel Universe franchise, beaten only by The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Iron Man 3, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Iron Man 2.
The film’s strong second weekend points to it overtaking at least two of those films before the year is out.
