Walt Disney/Marvel's “Captain America:
Brave New World” added another $28.3 million on the fourth weekend in February to its previous $100 million Presidential weekend, according to Comscore.
Neon’s R-rated horror film
“The Monkey” in its weekend debut took in a strong $14.2 million, coming in at second place.
Now five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, domestic theatrical business
through two months of 2025 is still down 31% versus 2020 season-to-date in box-office revenue -- at $963 million, according to IMDb Box Office Mojo.
The COVID-19 pandemic began around March
15, 2020 -- when widespread movie theater closings quickly ramped up. In that year, from January 1-February 24, box-office revenue was $1.4 billion.
The theatrical business has made some
general progress, however. Two months into 2025, this year’s results are up 24% versus a year ago ($777.8 million) -- virtually flat compared to 2023 ($968.9 million) and 42% higher versus 2022
($678 million).
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Although it received poor reviews -- earning a B-, according to CinemaScore, the worst rating of any Marvel Cinematic Universe movie -- this “Captain America” movie
has pulled in $141.2 million in domestic revenues to date and $148.2 million in international business. The movie is in 4,105 domestic locations.
Reports suggest Disney was hard-pressed to put
much production quality and time into this Marvel movie, which occurred before the writers' and actors' 2023 strikes.
To make up for some of that, Disney has easily outspent any movie release
that opened this year -- with $22.2 million in national TV advertising, according to EDO Ad EnGage. Universal Pictures’ “Dog Man” is next at $10.2 million, which amassed $78.8
million in box-office revenue after four weeks of release.
A year ago, through the same January-February period, four movies spent over $10 million on TV advertising: Universal’s
“Kung Fu Panda 4” (at $19.6 million), Paramount’s “Bob Marley: One Love” (with $18.4 million), Warner Bros.' “Dune: Part Two” (at $15.9 million) and
Universal’s “Argylle” (with $13.5 million).