CAPTAIN MARVEL On Track For $1B+ Finish As It Soars To $455M Worldwide Launch; Sixth-Highest Global Debut Ever

Marvel Studios' Avengers: Endgame appetizer, Captain Marvel, is breaking all kinds of records on its way to the top of the worldwide box office, raking in $455 million in its first three days!

By RohanPatel - Mar 10, 2019 11:03 AM EST

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Marvel Studios' Captain Marvel, which stars Academy Award-winner Brie Larson (Avengers: Endgame) in the title role, is rocketing to a $153 million domestic debut, which is the biggest North American opening of the year thus far and the seventh-highest opening in the Marvel Cinematic Universe overall.

Worldwide, the Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck-directed film has grossed a gargantuan $455 million ($153M domestic; $302M foreign) in three days, which is the second-largest opening for a superhero film ever, behind only Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War ($640.5M), and the sixth-highest opening of all-time, behind Avengers: Infinity War, Universal's The Fate of the Furious ($541.9M), Disney/Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($529M), Universal's Jurassic World ($525.5M), and Warner Bros.' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 ($483.2M).

Captain Marvel now also holds the record for the biggest opening weekend for a comic book movie with a female lead, both domestically and globally, topping Warner Bros.' Wonder Woman ($103M domestic; $228.3M worldwide). It's also now the second-largest domestic debut for a superhero origin story, behind Marvel's Black Panther ($202M), and the fifth-largest foreign opening weekend.

With that kind of start, it's now widely projected to top $1 billion before the end of its run, which would make it the seventh Marvel Studios title to roar past the milestone marker overall and the third to do so in the past thirteen months.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe, which consists of twenty-one blockbuster titles, has now grossed over $7 billion domestically and is nearing $18 billion worldwide.

Despite unwarranted pre-release criticism from the dark side of the internet, Captain Marvel has been received relatively well by critics and fans alike, currently boasting a 79% Certified Fresh certification on review aggregator RottenTomatoes and a 65 on fellow aggregator MetaCritic. While the film may not have been received quite as well as some of its MCU predecessors, it did still manage to earn a strong "A" CinemaScore from moviegoers, which should bode well for its box office prospects in the coming weeks.

Domestic Box Office Top 10 (03/10/19):

Captain Marvel ($153M; $455M worldwide total)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World ($14.6M; $435.1M worldwide total)
Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral ($12M; $46.1M worldwide total)
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part ($3.8M; $164.4M worldwide total)
Alita: Battle Angel ($3.2M; $382.6M worldwide total)
Green Book ($2.48M; $242.2M worldwide total)
Isn't It Romantic ($2.41M; $44.1M worldwide total)
Fighting with My Family ($2.18M; $18.6M worldwide total)
Greta ($2.16M; $9M worldwide total)
Apollo 11 ($1.3M; $3.7M worldwide total)

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Set in the 1990s, Marvel Studios’ “Captain Marvel” is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that follows the journey of Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes. While a galactic war between two alien races reaches Earth, Danvers finds herself and a small cadre of allies at the center of the maelstrom.

Captain Marvel features:
Directors: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
Brie Larson as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel
Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
Jude Law as Yon-Rogg
Ben Mendelsohn as Talos
Djimon Hounsou as Korath the Pursuer
Lee Pace as Ronan the Accuser
Lashana Lynch as Maria Rambeau
Gemma Chan as Minn-Erva
Rune Temte as Bron-Char
Algenis Pérez Soto as Att-Lass
Mckenna Grace as young Carol Danvers
Annette Bening as the Supreme Intelligence
Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson
Robert Kazinsky in an undisclosed role
Kenneth Mitchell as Joseph Danvers
Colin Ford as Steve Danvers
Vik Sahay in an undisclosed role
Ana Ayora in an undisclosed role

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