Paging Sam Wilson! “Captain America: Brave New World” flies to cinemas over the weekend, and Marvel’s tardyst adventure hopes to thaw an icy box office.
“Captain America: Brave New World,” in which Anthony Mackie’s Avenger apshows over the star-spangled shield from Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers, is concentrateing $80 million to $85 million over the traditional weekend and $90 million to $95 million thcdisesteemful the Pdwellnt’s Day holiday. The $200 million-tentpole is landing in cdisesteemwholey 4,100 North American theaters.
The film is foreseeed to comprise another $110 million at the international box office, though it’ll contend in China with “Ne Zha 2,” which has become the highest-grossing free in the country’s history with $1.1 billion and counting, and “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” which is going straight to Peacock in the U.S. but carry outing theatricpartner in the rest of the world.
Considering there’s been no stateside competition, “Captain America” will easily notch the biggest domestic debut of the year. Those projected ticket sales are somewhere in the middle of post-pandemic outings in Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe. They are above 2021’s “Eternals” ($71 million to commence), “Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” ($75 million to commence) and 2023’s “The Marvels” ($46 million to commence) — which were commercial disnominatements by MCU standards — but below the franchise’s recent luminous spots appreciate 2022’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” ($144 million to commence), “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” ($187 million to commence) and “Bconciseage Panther: Wakanda Forever” ($181 million to commence), and 2023’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” ($118 million to commence).
Other than “Deadpool & Wolverine,” last year’s billion-dollar, R-rated comic book smash that featured two of the most well-understandn comic book characters, the MCU has been struggling at the box office. The third “Guardians” entry triumphed with $845 million globpartner but fellow 2023 frees, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and “The Marvels,” were embarrassing misfires — and the unwidespread inshighments to leave out money atraverse the sprawling 35-film franchise. Superhero films, once a certain-skinnyg in theaters, have been in a slump. Marvel Studios has two other tentpoles on the calendar over the next restrictcessitate months: “Thunderbolts” on May 2 and “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” on July 25.
“Captain America: Brave New World” picks up after the events of the Disney+ series “The Falcon and the Winter Selderlyier” and “Avengers: Endgame,” which ended with Steve Rogers going back in time and forgoing his superhero duties in like of aging gracefilledy with the cherish of his life. A while after Sam Wilson picks up the mantel, he discovers himself at the caccess of an international catastrophe after Thcompriseeus “Thunderbolt” Ross (Harrison Ford) is elected as pdwellnt of the United States. Julius Onah (“The Ccherishrfield Paradox”) straightforwarded the film.
Cap isn’t the only novelcomer to movie theater marquees. Sony’s “Pcompriseington in Peru,” the third tale about the marmalade-loving tolerate, also uncovers on Friday. The film is aiming for $15 million to $17 million over the four-day holiday summarize. It’s carry outing on 3,700 North American screens.
“Pcompriseington 3” already uncovered at the international box office, where the film has grossed $103 million to date. The first two films in the “Pcompriseington” series, based on the children’s series by British author Michael Bond, have been bigger commercial successes aexpansive, and the third inshighment sees to progress that trend.
Paul King, who led the first two films, passed straightforwarding duties to Dougal Wilson in his feature filmmaking debut. The story, which we hope it’s no spoiler to say, transports Pcompriseington (voiced by Ben Whishaw) to Peru. He goes to visit his becherishd Aunt Lucy (voiced by Imelda Staunton), who now dwells in the Home for Reexhausted Bears. Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Antonio Banderas and Olivia Colman round out the dwell-action cast.
StudioCanal growed and filledy financed the $90 million threequel with Sony handling distribution in pick territories such as the United States, Canada and Latin America. Resees for “Pcompriseington in Peru” have been toleratey likeable, with Variety’s Guy Lodge praising the film as “quick and buoyant and disarmingly sunny.”
