‘Captain America: Brave New World’ surges to $100 million opening weekend
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Marvel’s “Captain America: Brave New World” topped the weekend box office and is projected to finish as one of the highest-grossing Presidents’ Day weekend openers.
“Captain America: Brave New World” was No. 1 at the weekend box office and is projected to finish as one of the highest-grossing Presidents’ Day weekend openers. According to Comscore estimates, the fourth “Captain America” film grossed about $88.5 million in domestic sales Friday through Sunday. It’s expected to surpass $100 million through the remainder of the holiday weekend to become the No. 4 highest-grossing Presidents’ Day weekend opener, edging out “Fifty Shades of Grey,” which grossed $93 million over the four days in 2015, but behind three other Marvel films: “Black Panther” ($242 million) in 2018, “Deadpool” ($152 million) in 2016 and “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” ($120 million) in 2023. “This sets into motion a revival in interest in the MCU, getting the audiences back on board and where they have to see each of these movies because it all ties together,” Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore, told CNN. The debut weekend for the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s 35th movie is in line with “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” ($95 million), in April 2014, but not as successful as “Captain America: Civil War” ($179 million) in May 2016. “Captain America: The First Avenger” in its opening weekend in July 2011, grossed $65 million, which equates to about $91 million when adjusted for inflation. “Captain America: Brave New World” didn’t shatter any records for Disney’s lucrative MCU franchise, but it was nowhere near the bottom. “The Marvels,” which debuted in November 2023, had the franchise’s lowest-performing opening weekend at $46 million. Marvel, which has drawn huge box-office returns since “Iron Man” in 2008, has seen underwhelming opening-weekend figures in recent years. The R-rated “Deadpool & Wolverine,” which opened in July 2024 and raked in more than $200 million in its opening weekend, was an outlier for the latest MCU releases, said Daniel Loria, editorial director at The Boxoffice Company.
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Marvel’s “Captain America: Brave New World” topped the weekend box office and is projected to finish as one of the highest-grossing Presidents’ Day weekend openers.