NEW superhero film “The Marvels” is making history, and not in a good way: its estimated US$47 million (RM220.55 million) North American take over the weekend marks the lowest debut ever for a movie from Disney’s normally money-cranking Marvel Cinematic Universe.

“This opening is an unprecedented Marvel box office collapse,” said analyst David A. Gross. Second superhero episodes normally outperform the originals, he said, but this one is down 67% from its predecessor, “Captain Marvel”, and has a long way to go to recoup its US$220 million production cost.