The latest Captain America movie has made most of the money at the worldwide box office, with $647 million so far.
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“Civil War” has taken in $295.9 million at the domestic box office in its first ten days. Rounding out the top five was Gary Marshall’s ensemble comedy Mother’s Day, which earned $3.1 million.
“Money Monster”, starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Jack O’Connell and directed by Jodie Foster, was the highest-grossing new movie of the weekend. The film will expand in the weeks to come and go nationally on May 27. The movie looks to be bringing in a respectable $14 million for its opening weekend, which is higher than its original $10 million estimate.
“Civil War”, in fact, beat all comers with its Sunday receipts alone (estimated $21 million). It is now the second-highest grossing movie of 2016 but that will be short lived with Captain America about to pass $300 million after being out for only ten days. The movie brought in $3.2 million running on its third weekend. The original Avengers film and its sequel, Avengers: Age of Ultron, were both behemoths at the box office, so the title Civil War pretty much markets itself.
Former number one movie The Jungle Book stays put at two with a $17.8 million (GBP12.4 million) USA box office haul in its fifth week on release, taking its global tally past the $800 million (GBP558 million) mark. The film scored the best specialty opening of the year with $188,195 from just four screens in NY and Los Angeles before its expands nationwide over the next two weekends. The film, which stars Kevin Bacon, brought in $5.2 million from only 1,755 screens to take fourth place.
If the numbers for Captain America’s second weekend hold true then this will be the eleventh movie of all time to cross the $70 million mark.
Elsewhere, Sony’s The Angry Birds Movie debuted in second place at the United Kingdom box office with £2.15m.
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“It was a big weekend, but not the most exciting weekend”, Dergarabedian said. A final domestic gross of $66 million to $68 million is likely, making it profitable but McCarthy’s lowest-grossing top-billed film since she broke out with Bridesmaids.
