--- title: Doctor Strange Dominates Box Office With $85 Million description: Marvel's latest, Doctor Strange, dazzled audiences on its opening weekend, pulling in $85 million canonical: https://time.com/4559922/doctor-strange-box-office-weekend/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-06T17:21:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T01:39:08.270Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Marvel's 'Doctor Strange' Dazzles the Weekend Box Office og:description: It brought in $85 million og:url: https://time.com/4559922/doctor-strange-box-office-weekend/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7cf45b70be8d4ca/6988acc3cf40a8485dc4569f/doctor-strange.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: doctor-strange og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Marvel's 'Doctor Strange' Dazzles the Weekend Box Office twitter:description: It brought in $85 million twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7cf45b70be8d4ca/6988acc3cf40a8485dc4569f/doctor-strange.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Marvel's _Doctor Strange_ Dazzles the Weekend Box Office by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Nov 6, 2016 5:21 PM UTC  Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Nov 6, 2016 5:21 PM UTC Marvel’s [_Doctor Strange_](http://time.com/4558291/doctor-strange-deadpool-superhero-movies/) dazzled audiences on its opening weekend, pulling in $85 million. The Benedict Cumberbatch superhero movie maintained a trend of Marvel films dominating the box office, though it did not top the opening weekends of _Iron Man_ ($98.6 million) and _Guardians of the Galaxy_ ($94.3 million). The animated musical _Trolls_ came in second at the box office, with $45.6 million, while _Hacksaw Ridge_ took third with $14.8 million. Rounding out the top five scores at the box office, Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween took $7.8 million, with $65 million total after 17 days, and Inferno drew $6.3 million, with $26.1 million total in its second weekend. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4559922/doctor-strange-box-office-weekend/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4559922/doctor-strange-box-office-weekend/"},"headline":"Marvel's Doctor Strange Dazzles the Weekend Box Office","datePublished":"2016-11-06T17:21:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:39:08.270Z","description":"It drew in $85 million","url":"https://time.com/4559922/doctor-strange-box-office-weekend/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7cf45b70be8d4ca/6988acc3cf40a8485dc4569f/doctor-strange.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7cf45b70be8d4ca/6988acc3cf40a8485dc4569f/doctor-strange.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"doctor-strange","caption":"Doctor Strange","creditText":"Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4559922/doctor-strange-box-office-weekend/","name":"Marvel's Doctor Strange Dazzles the Weekend Box Office"}}]}] ```