The latest action-packed Captain America film stayed atop the North American box office this weekend, according to industry figures released yesterday.
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Captain America remained in front of The Jungle Book, the remake of the Disney classic about Mowgli and his animal friends, which took $17.8 million over the weekend for a total of $311.8 in five weeks.
The result: The third film in the Captain America franchise grossed $72.6 million domestically to win the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday; final numbers are due Monday.
Former number one movie The Jungle Book stays put at two with a $17.8 million (GBP12.4 million) US box office haul in its fifth week on release, taking its global tally past the $800 million (GBP558 million) mark.
Civil War is getting closer and closer to breaking the all-important $1bn barrier at the worldwide box-office, after another strong weekend that saw it take $158m.
The film generated sales of $72.6 million in the USA and Canada this past weekend, and made $84.2 million in global sales, ComScore said.
Captain America: Civil War. No other movies made over $5.1 million, with the critically panned horror film The Darkness taking fourth place by default. “To open to $15 million in that time frame is really a great number for us and it bodes well for the playability of the movie”, Rory Bruer, Sony’s president of worldwide distribution, said. Mother’s Day, in the meantime, fell like a stone now that its namesake holiday has passed, with an estimated $3.3 million adding up to $28.8 million in domestic gross. The TriStar Pictures film launched in 3,104 theaters and had a budget of $27 mn.
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The movie’s commercial success was dependent on the theatres and it might be accredited to the two main stars that the movie brought in $15 million which was beyond the expectation.
