RankTitleDomestic Gross (Weekend)Worldwide Gross (Cume)Week #Percentage ChangeBudget1Captain Marvel$153,000,000$455,000,0001N/A$152M2How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World$14,696,000$435,162,1253-51.1%$129M3A Madea Family Funeral$12,050,000$46,115,3832-55.5%$20M-$25M4The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part$3,825,000$164,409,9615-42.0%$100M5Alita: Battle Angel$3,200,000$382,659,1174-55.7%$170MNotable Box Office StoriesCaptain Marvel - Captain Marvel has a fantastic opening at #1 with $153M domestic and $455M worldwide! That's pretty goddamn fantastic (notice my tactful non-use of a synonym for fantastic btw) on numerous levels so let's break it down! Domestically that puts it as the highest opening ever for a female superhero film. Okay now frankly the only real competition there was Wonder Woman but beating her opening by $50M is still quite impressive, especially since I would argue WW culturally is more well known than La Capitana Marvela. It is also the second highest opening ever for a superhero origin story. While it didn't come close to the insane $200M+ opening of current champion Black Panther it is notable that BP had a full intro and storyline in CA: Civil War while Captain Marvel's pre-solo film origins were...a pager. A space pager! Internationally it's even more impressive, as CM opened to the 6th biggest worldwide opening in history. That actually far out paces Black Panther by $80M and is a higher worldwide opening than the first two Avengers films, Batman v Superman, and The Last Jedi. It is in fact the second biggest superhero opening worldwide under Infinity War. So where did all that sweet Disney capital come from? Well, China of course, which gave up $89M to the sexy super space saiyan...spilot. But the film also had massive pulls in the UK ($16.8M), Brazil ($13.4M), Mexico ($12.8M), and Australia ($10.7M). So of course now the question remains, how long before a Goose spinoff? Oh and will it make $1B?Captain Marvel (cont.) - In direct comparison I think it's good to look at other Phase 3 MCU origin stories. Of course the gold standard is Black Panther which had a drop of just 44% on its second weekend and ended with an incredible 3.4x multiplier. But on the scarier side you have something like Spider-man: Homecoming which dropped a significant 62.2% on its second weekend and ended with a 2.8x multiplier which while not bad is more in line with classic MCU standards. On the advantage side the newness and cultural relevancy of the film which pushed the crazy long runs of BP and WW (4x multiplier) could hit CM. On the bad side while it does have a great A on Cinemascore so did Homecoming and the audience was older than most MCU films with 64% over the age of 25 so it could run out of steam quicker than expected. If that's the case then we are looking at around $400M domestic whereas it could potential hold all the way over $500M. But I think even with lower numbers this has huge potential for $1B. 3 of the 5 films that are listed below CM on the all time worldwide openings list made over $1B so it's definitely in the money-making zone (also the name of my Patreon rip-off company).Captain Marvel (cont.) - Ultimately this was a damn good move for Marvel. Being a throwback film, having one of your main stars a CGI de-aged character, going back to the old format of the origin story is the first appearance of a character, and being pro flerken is all very unique. While I wouldn't say risky it is at least a little bold for them to shoulder so much of apparently large elements of Endgame on this gamble. This wasn't shooting for three from downtown but it's still a solid three. It also begins in full the great heralded Mouse House New Age when the Disney economy becomes the 5th largest GDP in the world....ok google. Where do I cash my shill checks? What do you mean you are stuck on text to speech. SHIT.Films Reddit Wants to FollowThis is a segment where we keep a weekly tally of currently showing films that aren't in the Top 5 that fellow redditors want updates on. If you'd like me to add a film to this chart, make a comment in this thread.TitleDomestic Gross (Weekly)Domestic Gross (Cume)Worldwide Gross (Cume)BudgetWeek #A Star is Born (2018)$2,758,916$214,532,255$431,232,255$36M23Bohemian Rhapsody$1,366,439$215,228,036$875,793,797$52M19Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse$2,855,474$188,791,684$366,791,684$90M13Aquaman$636,180$333,836,259$1,142,936,259$200M12The Wandering Earth$568,479$5,742,318$683,683,089$50M6Notable Film ClosingsTitleDomestic Gross (Cume)Worldwide Gross (Cume)BudgetBumblebee$127,195,589$459,512,841$135MSerenity$8,543,442$10,838,121$25MAs always r/boxoffice is a great place to share links and other conversations about box office news.Also you can see the archive of all Box Office Week posts at r/moviesboxoffice (which have recently been updated).My Letterboxd: https://ift.tt/2Q79jjT via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2Uw5vrk
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