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.
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The film, which stars Chris Evans as Captain America and his fellow Avengers Robert Downey, Jr., Scarlett Johansson, and Jeremy Renner, brought in $72 million this weekend, bringing the US total to $296 million.
Civil War features a cast of Marvel superheroes including Iron Man and the Black Widow who turn against one another in a series of massive fights over whether to submit to United Nations oversight. Hale and Pally are pitch-perfect as underachieving pool store employees and all of the other reenactors have at least one great moment (much like the movie that the short is based on). The bad news here is that this is a 72 percent decline from last week. “The Jungle Book” stays in the top three for a fifth consecutive week, bringing in an estimated .8 million.
Civil War, the latest superhero movie is generating super box office receipts in its second week out. Civil War has brought in $645 million overseas to date.
China is the top worldwide market by far with $155.8 million in ten days, per Box Office Mojo, making it the third-highest-grossing Disney release there behind Zootopia and Avengers: Age of Ultron. Money Monster was third and brought in $15 million while the horror film The Darkness recorded $5.2 million. The film cost only US$27 million to produce.
While landing in third and fourth place respectively, the standings were not kind to either Money Monster or The Darkness.
Another Julia Roberts movie, “Mother’s Day”, rounded out the top five with 3.3 million dollars in projected sales.
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Next weekend sees the opening of The Angry Birds Movie, The Nice Guys and Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising.
