The film brought home the fifth-largest opening weekend of all time, according to Box Office Mojo, earning an estimated $181.79 million. It will most likely be short lived considering the monster opening weekend by Captain America: Civil War.
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This video includes clips from Walt Disney Studios / “Captain America: Civil War,” Walt Disney Studios / “Iron Man 3,” The Guardian and Warner Bros. It’s been very well-received by critics and, now, audiences, who gave the film a promising “A” CinemaScore, which should bode well for the film’s longevity. Captain America: Civil War and The Jungle Book combinedgave the studio the $200 million boost it needed, rocketing it over the $1 billion mark in just 128 days.
To all the moms who begrudgingly saw Captain America: Civil War over Mother’s Day weekend: thank you for your service.
A video of behind-the-scenes shots has made its way to YouTube and is going viral, with more than one million views in the nine days since uploading.
“The Jungle Book”, which was ranked the first in the prior three weekends, together with “Zootopia”, which was placed the seventh this week, and the “Captain America: Civil War” – all three movies from Disney – grossed 794 million dollars domestically in the first five months of the year.
The opening is also the fifth biggest in US box office history, according to CNN.
It is the third Captain America movie in the Marvel franchise. With the latest sequel, box office analysts expect Marvel to prove its earnings power and creative mettle by packing theaters for another massive team-up movie just one year after the Avengers last assembled on screen.
The box office success of Disney’s Captain America continues on the global scale too with a further $220m taken in its second weekend internationally, pushing the Marvel tentpole to $496.6m overseas and $678.4m worldwide. The movie came in below what turned out to be optimistic estimates for at least $185 million, and didn’t challenge the opening record for a superhero movie as some thought it might.
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As BGR sister site Variety noted on Sunday, Civil War helped a revitalized Disney crush the prior record for the fastest a movie studio surpassed $1 billion at the box office in a calendar year.
