“Captain America: Brave New World” infused something of successful cash at the North American box office, bringing $ 88.5 million for ticket sales over the weekend, according to Studio Estimes Sunday. The launch of Walt Disney Co. is, with much, the largest first game of 2025 and the company predicts that it will reach $ 100 million nationwide and $ 192.4 worldwide at the end of the holiday of the presidents of the presidents on Monday.
It is Marvel’s first important release since “Deadpool & Wolverine” broke the albums last summer and revitalized a Marvel fans base that some worried were weakened after the poor in the presentation of “The Marvels.”
Playing at 4,105 locations in the United States and Canada, “Brave New World” is also an important transition for the “Captain America” brand: anoint Sam Wilson by Anthony Mackie as the new cap, officially assuming Chris Evans, who played the character for almost a decade. Harrison Ford co -starred as the president of the United States that transforms into the Hulk Red.
But “Brave New World”, directed by Julius Onah, had a bit of disability to the weekend: poor criticisms, although superhero movies can fly without the seal of approval of critics. The film is currently in 51% “Rotten” in Rotten Tomatoes. It is not the worst in Marvel’s film universe: “Eternals” has a 47% rating and “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” has 46%, but the last film is definitely at the lower end of the spectrum.
In his review for Associated Press, Mark Kennedy wrote that it is, “a highly processed and empty caloric, a candy of repentance of a film.”
The public was more generous in their opinions. Rotten Tomatoes’s “verified audience score” was 80% and his cinemacore was a B-. Departure surveys showed that men constituted 63% of the first weekend audience.
The bar for the largest opening of the year was not terribly high: “Dog Man” kept the title for two weeks with its launch of $ 36 million.
And the “Brave New World” sample is the mid -range for an MCU movie. Without taking into account inflation, it is among “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Thor: The Dark World”.
It also costs significantly less than many of the large -budget Marvel films, with a production price of $ 180 million, excluding the millions spent on marketing and promotion.
After just a Marvel movie in 2024, “Brave New World” is the first of the three main theatrical releases established by 2025..
“The genre of superheroes has received a success in recent years, but the public still has a great interest in seeing them on the big screen,” said Paul Dergarabedian, Comscore’s senior media analyst.
The second place at this week’s box office went to “Paddington in Peru”, the third installment in the beloved franchise, which finally opened in North America this weekend. Run by Sony, he won approximately $ 13 million and should reach $ 16 million for Monday. The study film opened in the United Kingdom in early November 2024 and entered the weekend with $ 104 million of its international career.
Dougal Wilson took over Paul King’s management tasks for this film, which also reformulated Emily Mortimer as Mrs. Brown, originally played by Sally Hawkins. The other main cast, including Ben Whishaw as Paddinton’s voice, remained intact.
Slasher “Heart Eyes” by Sony and Screen Gems landed in third place with $ 10 million, 20% more than its inauguration last weekend. The fourth place went to “Dog Man” with $ 9.7 million.
The success of Chinese box office “NE ZHA 2” completed the first five. He opened in 660 screens in North America and won $ 7.2 million. In general, the box office has increased by 20% compared to last year.
This weekend he also saw the launch of a new “Bridget Jones” movie, subtitled “Mad About the Boy”, which was directly to the Universal Peacock Transmission Service, which renounces the theaters in the USA. UU. In the The United Kingdom and Ireland, won an estimated $ 14.9 million, surpassed by “Captain America: Valiente Nuevo Mundo”. Universal Pictures International reported $ 32.3 million in gross of the 70 territories.
Final national figures will be published on Tuesday. According to Comscore, an estimated sale of tickets from Friday to Sunday in the US theaters. And Canada:
1. “Captain America: Brave New World”, $ 88.5 million.
2. “Paddington in Peru”, $ 13 million.
3. “Heart Eyes”, $ 10 million.
4. “Dog Man”, $ 9.7 million.
5. “NE ZHA 2”, $ 7.2 million.
6. “Love hurts”, $ 4.4 million.
7. “MUFASA: The Lion King”, $ 4.2 million.
8. “One of them days”, $ 3 million.
9. “Companion”, $ 1.9 million.
10. “Become LED Zeppelin”, $ 1.8 million.
