
* Considering the expectations regarding its opening weekend I extrapolated a gross in the $700 million range from what the opening weekend meant for Guardians 2 (with $320 million at home, $420 million from abroad, $740 million plausible, though with the take easily less). * Considering how the last Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film did in comparison with its predecessor-how, as if the drops from film to film previously seen with Thor and Black Panther were not bad enough, Ant-Man 3's fell so far short of Ant-Man 2-I suggested a $700 million gross were Guardians 3 to see its gross drop in comparable fashion relative to Guardians 2 (as, with its domestic gross falling a rough sixth, its international gross closer to half, it winds up with a bit under $400 million at home, a little over $300 million more from overseas). * Going by the inflation-adjusted performance of the first two Guardians films I considered $1 billion, or at least close to it, as the outcome were it to simply do as well as its predecessors (with a little over half coming from overseas). * At the start of the year an analyst publishing in Screen Rant suggested $1.2 billion.



With Guardians of the Galaxy 3 about to kick off the summer movie season the range of predictions regarding the movie's box office gross discussed here may be of some interest.
