Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ Sets Disney+ Premiere Date

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Disney+ subscribers will be able to jump into the Quantum Realm next month when Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania hits the streaming service.

The film, starring Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly and Jonathan Majors, will come to Disney+ worldwide on May 17. Thats 89 days after Quantumania opened wide in the U.S. on Feb. 17. The movies streaming debut also will come one month after it was released April 18 on digital for rent or purchase; on physical media, its set to drop on May 16 in 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD formats.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has beenone of the worst-reviewed Marvel movies to date. It hauled in $213 million at the domestic box office during its theatrical run and grossed $261.6 million worldwide; the movie had an estimated production budget of $200 million.

In the movie, Marvels third in the Ant-Man franchise, superheroes Scott Lang (Rudd) and Hope Van Dyne (Lilly) return to continue their adventures as Ant-Man and The Wasp. Together, with Hopes parents Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), and Scotts daughter Cassie Lang (Kathryn Newton), the family finds themselves exploring the Quantum Realm, interacting with strange new creatures and embarking on an adventure that will push them beyond the limits of what they thought possible.

Directed by Peyton Reed and produced by Kevin Feige and Stephen Broussard, Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania also stars Majors as Kang the Conqueror, David Dastmalchian as Veb, Katy OBrian as Jentorra, William Jackson Harper as Quaz and Bill Murray as Lord Krylar.

In his review of the movie, Variety chief film critic Owen Gleiberman wrote, Quantumania is fun, as well as bedazzling, relentless and numbing, then fun again just when you think youve had enough; all of that gets mashed together. He added, Ive rarely encountered a Marvel adventure thatsthisbusy with a do-or-die saving-the-cosmos plot that feelsthismuch like it exists simply to set up the next dozen chapters of something.

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