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Captain America: Brave New World wins the weekend box office

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Captain America: Brave New World

In no surprise, Captain America: Brave New World was at the top of the weekend box office with an estimated $88.5 million domestically. Overall, domestically, it has grossed around $100 million over the holiday weekend. It also grossed $92.4 million internationally for a debut of $192.4 million worldwide.

The film’s opening is an interesting one compared to Marvel Captain America films of the past. 2011’s Captain America opened with $65.1 million which is about $91.9 million in today’s dollars. It went on to gross $370.6 million worldwide. Captain America: The Winter Soldier debuted with $95 million in 2014, about $127.5 million today, and eventually grossed $714.4 million worldwide. Captain America: Civil War opened with a massive $179.1 million in 2016, $237.1 million in today’s dollars. It grossed over $1.155 billion worldwide. Brave New World might not seem like a great opening, but beyond inflation calculations, it opened similar to the first two Captain America films.

In second place, Paddington in Peru debuted with $13 million during the weekend and $16 million domestically over the holiday weekend. Internationally, the film has grossed a massive $115.8 million for a worldwide total of $131.8 million.

Heart Eyes slipped to third place with $10 million, an improvement from the last weekend. It has grossed $22.6 million domestically with no international gross.

Dog Man slipped to fourth place from last week’s first with $9.7 million. It has grossed $69.6 million domestically and internationally it add $5.7 million over the week to bring that to $17.6 million. Worldwide, the movie has grossed $87.2 million.

Ne Zha 2 debuted in fifth with $7.2 million over the weekend and $8.3 million total domestically and no international gross reported.

In comic film news…

Kraven the Hunter domestically gained about $100,000 over the week and has now grossed a little over $25 million. Internationally, the movie gained a bit, about $50,000, to have grossed just under $37 million. Worldwide, the movie has grossed just under $62 million after six weeks.

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim held domestically at $9.2 million. Internationally the film remained at $11.3 million. The movie has grossed just $20.5 million.

Venom: The Last Dance remain at $139.8 million domestically. Internationally, it remained at $339.1 million. Worldwide, the movie has grossed $478.9 million, a slight gain from the previous week.

Solo Leveling: Reawakening remained at $3.4 million domestically. Internationally it remained at just under $3 million for a worldwide total of a little over $6.3 million.

The week’s overall box office success…

Numbers have 65 films earning $154,024,172 from 32,307 theaters. That’s a a big increase from the previous weekend’s $53,923,311 from 36,913 theaters and 70 films. The average earning was $4,767.52 which is also a decrease from the previous weekend’s $1,460.82.

Captain America: Civil War Comes in First. Falls Short of $200 Million Projections.

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Captain America Civil WarCaptain America: Civil War came in first place this past weekend, bringing in an estimated $181.79 million (some studios claim it brought in $186 million) at the domestic box office. The film did very well scoring the fifth largest opening of all-time and the third largest for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Captain America franchise is a successful one when it comes to openings as this represents a 91.3% increase over the opening for Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

It’s not shocking the massive haul over the weekend, but some projections and estimates had the film opening with over $200 million in its first three days. It’d have been the fourth film to do so. Now, should this falling short be considered a failure? Only if you claimed a superhero film from a rival publishing company fell short and failed. Not doing so would be a bit hypocritical after all.

The film scored an “A” Cinemascore and currently 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, which should bode well for its earnings for some time, but on May 20 X-Men: Apocalypse opens, so the film may run into some stiff competition in just a few weeks that’ll potentially take a lot of wind out of its sails.

The film opened last week internationally and so far has earned $496.6 million in those markets, giving it a worldwide total of $678.4 million. That international total is already more than Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Iron Man 2, Ant-Man, Thor: The Dark World, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

A big question will be if this film will be more like the two previous Avengers films which averaged $1.462 billion or more like previous Captain America films. The Winter Soldier earned $714.4 million (a number Civil War will likely top this week), and Captain America: The First Avenger earned $370.6 million. Most likely the film will be somewhere in between the two franchises. But, since the film is more like Avengers 2.5, if it doesn’t cross $1 billion should it be considered a failure? The film also has a budget more like an Avengers film with a reported $250 million. That one will be determined by talking heads repeating corporate talking points most likely.

There are other “comic adaptations” still in the theater…

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice rounded out the top ten after seven weeks. The film added an estimated $1 million to its total to bring its domestic total to $327.3 million and its worldwide total to $865.5 million. It currently sits in second for the year as far as worldwide grosses.

Even though it’s available for digital download and the blu-ray/dvd releases this week, Deadpool added an estimated $230,000 to its domestic total to bring it to $362.2 million. The film has earned $762 million worldwide and was passed by The Jungle Book this week in worldwide totals. It currently ranks fourth and Captain America: Civil War ranks fifth.