Captain America continues soaring, Money Monster is small change

Captain America: Civil War continues soaring in its second weekend gaining $72.6 million which is among a handful of films that have made over $70 million on their second weekend. The Marvel behemoth has a current worldwide cume of $940 million and will easily pass the $1 billion mark by next week placing it as the most profitable Captain America movie in the Steve Rogers trilogy. Disney also repeats last week's feat of having two of their films in the #1 & #2 spots as The Jungle Book took again the second spot with $17.7 million.

The Marvel film now has a cumulative domestic gross of $295.8 million and if it can keep this pace could finish its run around $430 million. So far this movie is performing almost similar to The Avengers: Age of Ultron as it had just a 59% drop is close to $300 million in 10 days. 'Captain America: Civil War' will put the Marvel btrand in the $10 billion cumulative grosses gained by 13 films. The Marvel films continues ruling among audiences preferences.

Debuting a bit better than expected, but by no means a hit, Money Monster takes the third spot with $15 million. While that is a respectable number for a $27 million budget film, the fact that all these famous names are attached to this film (George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster) and had so much marketing invested (undisclosed amount, but trailers got heavy rotation on tv and on the internet so it wasn't cheap), and couldn't knock a five weeks old film from the second spot is discouraging. More so its 59% rotten score which will spell doom for word of mouth. Add another so-so film to Clooney's resume.

Also debuting this week is the horror film The Darkness which landed in the fourth place with $5.1 million. While the film is low budget and will not lose money, these numbers are not the genre's expected ones.

Descending to the fifth spot as it no longer serves its purpose as a holiday film, Mother's Day took $3.2 million for a total of $28 million and still losing money. The studio was hoping for a greeting card from audiences, but instead got a bereavement card.

And where is the Batman?

It dropped to the the #14 spot with $535K. The DC film is now headed to DVD territory after 8 weeks and might finish its domestic run with $330 million and $870 million worldwide...less than what 'Captain America: Civil War' has grossed in ten days!

 

Saw it and I was underwhelmed. I hardly go out to the movies anymore. It's been that way for the past 10 years or so. I just prefer to enjoy the movies in the comfort of my own room when the euphoria has died down.

This movie was lame IMO. Had a few nice fight scenes, but they drastically over do it on the attempted humor and wit. Every time people laugh in the theater I find myself scratching my head.

Fun if you like super heroes and explosions. But horrible dialogue.

On the plus side, Scarlett is always hot.

 

Unbias...Unfanboy opinion.....I thought it was just OKAY...a few of the fuckboys here were getting their panty girdle's in a bunch...greatest..this greatest that...whatever...IT was definitely better than Superman vs. batman..

Civil War was ALL action....10-15 minutes at a time...with only short idle moments of conversation and story telling....

 

Fair. Go watch again your favorite movie 'Sense & Sensibility'.

 

Breaking News!


Disney-Marvel’s “Captain America: Civil War” has soared past $1 billion at the worldwide box office — the 25th movie to do so.
The tentpole hit $314 million in the U.S. on Thursday, its 14th day of domestic release, and $677 million internationally after 23 days.
Disney noted that it’s the top grosser of 2016 and the fourth Marvel Cinematic Universe film to pass $1 billion, joining “The Avengers” ($1.518 billion), “Avengers: Age of Ultron” ($1.405 billion) and “Iron Man 3” ($1.215 billion).
The 13 titles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe have hauled more than $10 billion in global box office, with nearly $2.1 billion coming from the three “Captain America” films.
“Captain America: Civil War” is Disney’s 10th billion-dollar release out of the 25 films that have hit the milestone. Its “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is third on the list with $2.06 billion, trailing only “Avatar” at $2.78 billion and “Titanic” at $2.19 billion.






Rainmaker is pissed! ::

 

This is in the top 10 comic book movies.

 

Ssshhhh!!! Don't said that too loud: Rainmaker will accuse you of getting paid by Disney!

 

I have it at number 1 just ahead of the original avengers, Xmen United and the Nolan batman trilogy.

Honourable mentions to superman 2, winter soldier, and x men first class

 

Pretty good list. Disagree on Batman though. The Dark Knight definitely belongs but the other two were weaker imo.

 

I agree with you: The Dark Knight is great (mainly because of Heath Ledger), but 'Batman Begins' & 'The Dark knight Rises' have zero rewatchability value.

 

I prefer Batman Begins to The Dark Knight actually. Liam Neeson's Ra's Al Ghul, The Scarecrow, Rutger Hauer, Falconi....bad boy film. I've rewatched that far more times than TDK. Watching how Bruce Wayne trains and then transforms himself into Batman with the help of Alfred and Fox is fascinating. Seems that this film is very underrated these days...

 

When it comes to comic book movies.....my list is something like this...

1. The Dark Knight


...EVERYTHING ELSE...THe Avenger movies will be in my top 10...and 2 of the Xmen movies...That one Wolverine movie in Japan...etc..but they are interchangeable.....but The Dark Knight is UNDISPUTED #1...

 

The first half of the film is pretty interesting, but it deviated A LOT from the comicbooks and felt like a reboot of 'American Ninja'. Unfortunately once Bruce Wayne returns to Gotham City the film loses its impacts and drags at times. Without exaggerating I had to force myself to finish watching it during a span of a few days as I lost any interest on it. I never watched it again.

 

While there are better films made afterwards, I have a special place in my heart for Superman: The Movie the film that started it all. I have watched that film more times than any other superhero film. It is not a perfect film (the whole Lex Luthor campy approach was wrong for this film), but what it did right was plain GREAT. Marlon Brando's Jor-El & the Krypton scenes shits on 'Man of Steel' Russell Crowe and the Del Toro-like Avatar Krypton scenes. Christopher Reeve IS Superman/Clark Kent; Henry Cavill is good, but his Superman is a strange creation and not the one I grew up reading in comicbooks.