'Captain America' Adds $28M To Domestic Box Office
- by Wayne Friedman , February 24, 2025
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).
Utter financial disaster, as predicted by pretty much everybody except the kneepads shills in the controlled corrupt collectivist corporate criminal clown media. With all the reshoots for this oft-delayed dud, the budget was pushing $350-400 million...BEFORE MARKETING! This franchise-fouling flop likely cost over half a billion bucks when all-in.
It's delicious schadenfreude to witness globalist America-hating puppet Bobby Igor's rat kingdom try to desperately spin the colossal failure of CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD, by claiming the 2nd weekend dropoff was "only 68%" (making it the third biggest plunge in Disney Marvel history, after 78% for THE MARVELS and 72% for ANT MAN: QUANTUMANIA). Ha ha ha!
But when the REAL figures are finally admitted in a few days or next week, people will discover the actual dropoff in week two for this dull & ugly cinematic turd was more like 75% or even higher. Let's note the Friday to Friday dropoff was 82%; does anybody think Saturday and Sunday made up the necessary 14% box office grosses on Saturday and Sunday to reach $28 million, when word-of-mouth on this piece of hackword has been utter creative cancer? If you believe that Narrative, I've got a Russian "piss tape" to sell you, LOL.
Captain America made $100 million in it's first week which doesn't make it a flop Disney and it's shareholders are happy with the results. I'll be seeing it this Friday if the time is a good time. Captan America will make a profit when it's on the streaming services.
Opps Captain.