Captain America: Civil War Opens with $181.8 Million; Global Cume Climbs Over $675M
by Brad Brevet
May 8, 2016


Captain America: Civil War scorched the weekend box office, bringing in the fifth largest opening weekend of all-time. The massive debut contributed to Disney bringing in over $200 million this weekend as the studio became the fastest to cross the $1 billion mark in domestic earnings in just 128 days, decimating the 165 day record set by Universal just last year.

And while Disney was setting records, the weekend also saw a stellar comeback for Open Road's Mother's Day as it took advantage of its holiday namesake.







With an estimated $181.79 million opening weekend, Civil War not only scored the fifth largest opening of all-time, it is the third largest opening for a film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

In fact, compared to the other standalone franchises in the MCU, the Captain America franchise continues to show the greatest film-over-film growth as Civil War's opening is a 91.3% increase over the opening for Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Also note, Disney under-estimated the opening weekend for Avengers: Age of Ultron last year by $3.6 million and some rival studios suggest Civil War may have brought in as much as $186 million this weekend.



Civil War scored an "A" CinemaScore, and solid holds over its first three days in release suggest a stellar domestic run is in the offing. Should it play out on par with the likes of The Winter Soldier it will likely pass $300 million domestically by next Sunday (if not sooner) and could surpass $450 million overall depending on how it holds on once X-Men: Apocalypse hits theaters on May 20.

Globally the film's total is now up to $678 million after launching internationally last weekend and bringing in an estimated $220 million from overseas markets this weekend.







Contributing to Disney's record is the weekend's #2 film, The Jungle Book, which dropped 50% this weekend and added an estimated $21.8 million to its domestic total, which is now just shy of $285 million.

Internationally, The Jungle Book added $24.1 million this weekend from 52 territories as its global cume climbs to over $776 million, placing it third on the 2016 worldwide charts.







In third we find the impressive result for Open Road's Mother's Day.

The ensemble feature had something of a disappointing opening weekend last week but rebounded well by seeing a 7.6% increase this weekend, bringing in an estimated $9 million as its cume now totals just over $20 million.







Not performing so well in their second weekends, WB's Keanu dropped 67.4% with an estimated $3 million.

Ratchet & Clank clunked its way to a $1.46 million weekend, a 70% drop.

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May 6-8, 2016 Weekend Studio Estimates:


1. Captain America: Civil War $181,791,000
2. The Jungle Book $21,873,000 / $284,985,265
3. Mother's Day $9,006,141 / $20,725,561
4. The Huntsman: Winter's War $3,580,000 / $40,363,620
5. Keanu $3,080,000 / $15,100,937
6. Barbershop: The Next Cut $2,700,000 / $48,768,843
7. Zootopia $2,677,000 / $327,624,990
8. The Boss $1,750,000 / $59,102,460
9. Ratchet & Clank $1,462,000 / $7,095,633
10. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice $1,045,000 / $327,250,133

Captain America #1 Again as the Marvel Cinematic Universe Tops $10 Billion Worldwide
by Brad Brevet
May 15, 2016


Disney occupies the top two spots at the box office for a second straight weekend as Captain America: Civil War and The Jungle Book had repeat performances at #1 and #2 respectively.

The weekend's new wide releases, Money Monster and The Darkness, both performed above expectations and, in limited release, A24's The Lobster scored the best specialty opening of the year.







Repeating at number one, Disney and Marvel's Captain America: Civil War brought in an estimated $72.5 million, enough to make it one of the top ten second weekend results of all-time. The 59% drop is on par with last year's Avengers: Age of Ultron and if it continues on this trajectory it will be looking at a domestic cume at or around $430 million.

As of now, the domestic total is just shy of $300 million.



Internationally the film continues the push toward becoming the year's first $1 billion earner worldwide as it brought in $84.2 million, bringing the international cume to $645 million and the global total to $940.89 million.

The film's performance also pushes the cumulative, worldwide total for the thirteen films that currently make up the Marvel Cinematic Universe to over $10 billion with Civil War ranking fourth on the worldwide list (seventh domestically) among all films in the MCU.







Finishing second, Disney's The Jungle Book brought in an estimated $17.7 million, pushing the film's cume over $310 million. This is the second Disney release in 2016 to top $300 million domestically after Zootopia and they'll soon be joined by Civil War.

The Jungle Book also continues to find success internationally as it brought in another $15.2 million overseas bringing its international cume to $516.3 million and its global total to $828 million.

Disney now holds three of the top five spots on both the worldwide and domestic charts for 2016. Of those three, The Jungle Book is the only one that has not yet opened in all international markets as it still has yet to be released in Korea and Japan.







The first newcomer on the chart is TriStar's Money Monster, which opened in third with an estimated $15 million.

Expectations heading into the weekend were muted, especially for a film headlined by George Clooney and Julia Roberts, and, while the film technically over-performed, star power such as this used to be a much bigger draw.



In addition to its domestic gross, Money Monster brought in $4.7 million internationally.

The film rolled out in 14 overseas markets this weekend, which included two majors — France and Italy — and it will expand to Brazil, Germany and the UK at the end of May and Australia and Russia during the first weekend in June.







Finishing in fourth was BH Tilt's The Darkness, which brought in an estimated $5.18 million, just a hair over the studio's expectation. The micro-budgeted feature opened in 1,755 theaters and took advantage of targeted digital marketing to bring in the core demographic.

The move appears to have worked, though how it holds on next weekend will tell us a bit more about these targeted releases.



The Darkness scored a "C" CinemaScore from opening day audiences and holds a 0% rating at RottenTomatoes.

Last year BH Tilt scored a good opening for Eli Roth's The Green Inferno, but it wasn't able to hold on to much of its audience as it quickly plummeted 62.7% in its second weekend.







Rounding out the weekend top five is Mother's Day, which skyrocketed last weekend thanks to its holiday timing, but fell off a cliff this weekend.

Nosediving over 70%, the film brought in an estimated $3.25 million this weekend.







The weekend's top "per theater" performer was A24's release of The Lobster, which brought in an estimated $188,095 from four theaters for a solid, $47,024 per theater average, the best we've seen this year when it comes to specialty releases. The film will expand further next weekend before going wide on May 27.

Performing well just behind The Lobster was Roadside's release of the Amazon Studios feature Love & Friendship, which brought in an estimated $132,750 from four theaters for a $33,188 per theater average.

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May 13-15, 2016 Weekend Studio Estimates:


1. Captain America: Civil War $72,563,000 / $295,892,078
2. The Jungle Book $17,764,000 / $311,760,110
3. Money Monster $15,000,000
4. The Darkness $5,180,000
5. Mother's Day $3,259,205 / $28,757,325
6. Zootopia $2,816,000 / $331,831,439
7. The Huntsman: Winter's War $2,580,000 / $44,539,250
8. Keanu $1,900,000 / $18,612,503
9. Barbershop: The Next Cut $1,675,000 / $51,355,702
10. The Boss $1,180,000 / $61,141,700