Captain America

Captain America: Civil War has now passed the magic billion dollar mark with a current worldwide gross of $1,053,490,153.

In the U.S., Captain America: Civil War has netted $347,390,153, with an international gross of a whopping $706,100,000.

The number crushes Batman Vs. Superman ($870 million) and also beats WB’s best comic book selling movie, Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight ($1.004 billion).

Some other stats for Captain America: Civil War:

#9 comic book adapatation domestically (trailing Deadpool‘s $362.7 million)

#4 MCU movie domestically (trailing Iron Man 3‘s $409 million)

#35 on the all-time domestic chart

#19 for worldwide gross

Third best Summer start

#1 for 2016 overall

“Captain America: Civil War” is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo starring Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Frank Grillo, Paul Bettany, Don Cheadle, Emily VanCamp, William Hurt, Martin Freeman and Chadwick Boseman as Black Panther.

Synopsis:

Captain America: Civil War picks up where Avengers: Age of Ultron left off, as Steve Rogers leads the new team of Avengers in their continued efforts to safeguard humanity. After another international incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability and a governing body to determine when to enlist the services of the team. The new status quo fractures the Avengers while they try to protect the world from a new and nefarious villain.

Captain America: Civil has the one thing Batman Vs. Superman doesn’t — and that’s staying power.

Though both movies had similar opening weekend numbers, now with its second weekend, Captain America: Civil War has begun to show why Marvel is on top.

Civil War netted $72,563,000 for its second weekend, a drop of around 59.5% from last weekend, while Batman Vs. Superman saw a drop of over 69% for its second weekend with $51,335,254.

Captain America: Civil War has also already passed Batman Vs. Superman in worldwide box office gross and is closing on the magic billion dollar number.

Captain America: Civil War has a $295,892,078 gross in the U.S. with a whopping $645,000,000 internationally for a current worldwide total of $940,892,078.

Batman Vs. Superman has finished with $328,214,243 in the U.S. and $540,600,000 for foreign receipts for a total a total of $868,814,243 worldwide.

The numbers for Captain America: Civil War have also helped the Marvel Cinematic Universe pass $10 billion worldwide for all their movies.

Disney also saw its Jungle Book take the #2 spot this weekend.

(numbers via boxofficemojo)

So why didn’t Captain America: Civil War open to $200 million at the box office?

Blame Batman Vs. Superman?!

According to John Campea, who is known around the movie blogosphere, the negative response to Batman Vs. Superman affected Captain America: Civil War‘s box office.

Campea argues most of the general audience doesn’t know the difference between a DC and a Marvel film, and that since they didn’t like Batman Vs. Superman, the audience figured they wouldn’t like Captain America: Civil War as well, so some didn’t bother to go out and see it.

While Batman vs. Superman might seem like a good scapegoat, could the lower box office draw for Captain America: Civil War have anything to do with the fact that Avengers: Age Of Ultron wasn’t as well received as either The Avengers or Captain America: Winter Soldier? Perhaps some of the audience figured since Avengers 2 wasn’t that good, that Civil War wouldn’t be as good as well?

Or could it have been as simple as Civil War not being titled Avengers 3? General audiences might not have realized Civil War was essentially a third Avengers film and chalked it up to another Captain America movie, which obviously sees less of a draw than Avengers.

Or we could even argue that Captain America: Civil War simply wasn’t that good of a movie. Word-of-mouth may have caused the lower Captain America: Civil War box office draw as perhaps not enough buzz was created as Marvel played it too safe with the movie by not killing any characters (like the comics) or really anything important happening at all. Is Captain America: Civil War a “must see” movie? Looking at the big picture, it doesn’t seem so.

We all know Cap and Iron Man will make up and reteam for Avengers: Infinity War, right? So aside from the cool special effects seeing the Avengers battling each other, what was so good about the storyline? They killed off Crossbones right away (lame). Daniel Bruhl’s villain was rather bland until he teased more at the end (at least in my opinion), and Tony Stark seemed out of character. In addition, Spider-Man, Ant-Man, Black Panther and Hawkeye were shoehorned in to the movie (good or bad), which felt oddly enough pretty similar to Batman Vs. Superman‘s Justice League characters.

I could also argue Marvel and Disney – once again – revealed way too much footage online, which may have caused Captain America: Civil War to come off as rather underwhelming, which, in my opinion, is what happened with Avengers 2.

Another question to consider: Is it possible Marvel made a mistake by greenlighting Captain America: Civil War as a direct result of Warner Bros. announcing Batman Vs. Superman? Since when does Marvel play catch-up?

Perhaps the blame is not with the direct competition, but right in the mirror on this one?

Captain America: Civil War has passed $700 million at the box office, which has also led to Disney topping $1 billion in sales at the U.S. box office in only 128 days, the fastest ever.

Currently, Captain America: Civil War has a $705.231 worldwide gross, with $192.431 million coming from the U.S. and $512.8 from international receipts.

For those keeping track regarding comparisons to Batman Vs. Superman, BVS bested Captain America: Civil War on their first Monday screenings: Batman Vs. Superman made $15.040 million to Civil War‘s $13.291 million, though BVS did have the Easter Monday holiday.

In its first four days, Captain America: Civil War has brought in $192,431,018 domestically, while Batman Vs. Superman saw $181,047,843 million, a 6% difference.

Captain America: Civil War also sits at 90% with critics at Rotten Tomatoes and 92% with fans.

Regarding Disney topping a billion, in addition to Civil War, the Zootopia movie and Jon Farvreau’s Jungle Book also added to the mix. The previous fastest studio to a billion at the box office was last year with Universal who did it in 165 days, which Disney has blown away this year.