Meanwhile, “Zootopia” finished its 10th weekend in the top 10 and will end its run with between $330 and $340 million domestic and around $950 million worldwide.
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Mighty Marvel superhero Captain America is sweeping up the ground with his enemies and hoovering-up movie ticket revenue, on the road to reaping an anticipated billion-dollar payday.
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.
The film grossed a massive $181.8million this weekend, bumping “Iron Man 3” out of the top five all-time debuts. “On top of that, Disney has also become the fastest studio to reach 2 billion dollars internationally and 3 billion dollars globally, surpassing the previous industry records set past year in June”, said the Box Office Mojo, an online box office tracker. “Mother’s Day” took the third place with $9 million and “The Huntsman: Winter’s War” finished fourth with $3.6 million.
The film helped lift Disney pass the $1 billion mark at the domestic box office for the year. In fact, compared to the other standalone franchises in the MCU, the Captain America franchise continues to show the greatest film-over-film growth as Civil War’s opening is a 91.3% increase over the opening for Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
The film came just $10 million shy of beating Avengers: Age of Ultron’s opening weekend, while making almost double that of Captain America: Winter Soldier’s $95 million opening.
It was the fifth-highest opening in USA movie history, Fox News reported.
After a $75 million first day, the opening was right in line with expectations, and according to comScore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian, is well on its way to becoming a $1billion movie. “The Jungle Book” took second place at the box office this weekend with just north of $21 million.
Captain America: Civil War, which cost $250m (£173m) to make, is the 13th title in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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On Friday, Captain America: Civil War did the expected, pulling in a very strong $75.3 million for the first day plus previews. Foreign grosses have hit $628 million, led by $235.6 million in China; worldwide box office has reached $956 million.
