Marvel’s “Thunderbolts*” will easily top the weekend box office after cracking a $31.5 million gross across Friday and preview screenings from 4,330 theaters. That puts the ensemble action piece, which follows a ragtag team-up of Marvel’s least superpowered personalities,

However, this will still rank the film as drawing one of the lower Marvel openings in history. It is likely to gross less than Disney’s previous Marvel outing, Captain America: Brave New World, which was released in February and had a successful $40.9m (£30m) opening day and made $88m (£66m) over the weekend.

"Thunderbolts*" raked in $31.5 million on its opening day, while "Sinners" took in $9.5 million heading into its third weekend.