Captain Marvel is a hit.
The latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe opened Friday, and it’s currently angling toward a U.S. opening weekend total of $153 million. Once you add in all the other regions that hosted a Captain Marvel opening, that number shoots up to a $455 million take worldwide.
Assuming the weekend estimate bears out (or is exceeded), Captain Marvel‘s $153 million weekend is enough to make it the third-highest opening ever for the month of March, behind Beauty and the Beast ($174.8 million) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ($166 million). The Hunger Games, which opened with $152.5 million in March 2012, will move to the #4 spot.
A big piece of the overseas picture here belongs to China — a familiar story for anyone who pays regular attention to the weekly box office race. Captain Marvel earned an estimated $89.3 million there, making it Marvel’s third-best Chinese opening, behind Avengers: Infinity War and Captain America: Civil War.
In the bigger MCU picture, Captain Marvel‘s $153 million in the U.S. is more than enough to cement its seventh-place position — out of 21 releases to date — among opening weekends across the franchise. The top spots on that list belong to the various Avengers movies, plus Black Panther, Captain America: Civil War (which was basically billed as an Avengers movie), and Iron Man 3.
The other big box office metric people are curious about is Wonder Woman. The Gal Gadot-led DC Comics story opened in June 2017 with $103 million, considerably less than Captain Marvel. A lot of the credit for that goes to Disney’s captive audience of Marvel fans; the studio can virtually count on a certain segment of the audience showing up for every movie, given that they’re all part of a connected story.
Of course, Captain Marvel‘s March opening also means it’s facing very little competition. Alita: Battle Angel, its closest competitor in terms of the type of audience it appeals to, opened multiple weeks ago. The current weekend’s second-place box office finisher is How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.
Wonder Woman, on the other hand, opened in June 2017 with an assortment of mega-blockbusters crowded around it. There was competition from a Pirates of the Caribbean movie, the second Guardians of the Galaxy, and the usual slate of more family-friendly summer offerings.
All of which is to say: Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman box office performances don’t necessarily compare well. But Captain Marvel is off to a tremendous start, and it’s currently poised to own the box office until at least early April, when DC’s Shazam! hits theaters.
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