It’s almost double the opening of the previous “Captain America” film, “The Winter Soldier”, which opened to $95 million in April 2014, but that is at least partially attributable to the fact that “Civil War” is basically an Avengers movie in disguise.
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The latest “Captain America” installment, which is the 13th movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, sets up the next wave of MCU storytelling.
Globally the film’s total is now up to $678 million after launching internationally last weekend and bringing in an estimated $220 million from overseas markets this weekend.
Civil War has opened the summer with a dominant $181.8m (£125.8m) weekend in the United States – the fifth best of all time.
Captain America Civil War had already scored big at the Irish and United Kingdom box office last weekend and now has more to celebrate with its release Stateside. As they later explained it, the Civil War drafts featuring Pym and Van Dyne “existed in a world where they hadn’t shot a frame of Ant-Man”. Disney’s trifecta of awesomeness (Civil War, Jungle Book, Zootopia) managed to earn a combined $200 million plus at the domestic box office, and worldwide?
Civil War will have one more full weekend to itself before The Divergent Series: Allegiant, The Angry Birds Movie and Southpaw all open on Friday, May 20.
Civil War helped boost the studio’s climb at the box office, which so far s the fastest climb any studio has achieved in cinema history.
In Korea, domestic detective action movie “Phantom Detective”, directed by Jo Sung-hee of “A Werewolf Boy” (2012), debuted in second place with 508,206 tickets sold during the weekend, making 4.2 billion won. Mother’s Day took third place this weekend and actually improved during its second weekend with $9 million. The part-prequel, part-spinoff has grossed a total of $40.4 million.
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The 10th weekend of “Zootopia” was edged out for fifth by New Line’s second session of “Keanu”, which fell more than 67 percent to about $3.1 million. Its domestic total is now at $15.1 million. While not at the level of The Dark Knight Rises ($30 million plus from previews), Civil War still had a very strong Thursday, finishing just behind Age of Ultron in terms of Thursday previews ($27.6 million) and Batman v Superman ($27.8 million).
