Doctor Strange 2 summons $27 million at the international box office on opening day

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is off to a magical start at the international box office. The highly-anticipated sequel to 2016’s Doctor Strange summoned an impressive $27 million on opening day across 20 overseas markets, including France, Germany, Italy, and Korea.

While Doctor Strange 2 is 4% behind inaugural ticket sales for Spider-Man: No Way Home, receipts show the film is up 153% from Doctor Strange and 210% ahead of The Batman in their respective rollouts. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness opens today in select theaters in North America, where the film is bound to make money hand over Sling Ring. Whether the film can overtake Spider-Man: No Way Home at the box office remains to be seen, but I think it stands a chance. No Way Home reinvigorated people’s desire to see Doctor Strange on the silver screen, and the Multiverse is an ocean of possibility. Marvel can go anywhere now that they’ve opened up those floodgates.

Out of the territories where Doctor Strange 2 is currently playing, Korea had the most significant showing with $5.9 million, Japan with $3.8 million, France with $3 million, and Italy with $2.2 million.

The upcoming film will find the MCU unlocking the Multiverse and pushing its boundaries further than ever before. Journey into the unknown with Doctor Strange, who, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Elizabeth Olsen, Benedict Wong, Xochitl Gomez, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Rachel McAdams.

Later this evening, I got my tickets to see Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. How about you? Did you pre-order tickets to the latest mind-bending chapter of the MCU‘s ongoing saga of superhero shenanigans? Let us know your battle plan in the comments section below.