BOX OFFICE: ‘Captain America’ Smashes April Opening Record With $90M To $95M Or Higher Estimate For Disney/Marvel

OPENING: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (DIS), smashes previous April opening records with estimated $90M to $95M or higher opening.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier will become the highest-grossing April opener ever with anywhere between $90M and $95M+ and other distributors have it even higher to $98M, destroying previous records set by Fast Five in 2011 by about $8M to $10M. It marks another monster hit for Marvel and Disney which is expected to take a very nice profit on the film directed by Joe and Anthony Russo which will already have made roughly $200M worldwide on an estimated $177.6M budget. It comes after tallying a whopping $10.2M on late nights Thursdays with shows that started at 8 p.m. The first Captain America opened to $65M when Paramount Pictures distributed it in 2o11. Captain America: The Winter Solider, with a 40% increase from that and besting the 30% increase that was witnessed between the first and second Thor openings, now holds April daily records, too, with an estimated Friday take of $35M to $38M. Comparatively, Fast Five tallied $34.4M and $86.2M in 2011.
The fan-crazed actioner opened in Russia and Australia and bows today in China. Not surprising that heading into the weekend the movie that has more bullets than The Walking Dead has zombies, had the the highest social activity across the board (FB, Twitter and YouTube) with its Marvel Entertainment YouTube Channel approaching ... Read More »

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