Posted on 03/10/2019 1:05:14 PM PDT by SMGFan
Captain Marvel is going higher, further, faster at the box office. The Marvel film easily soared past its competition for the biggest opening weekend of 2019 and the first title of the year to open to more than $100 million. It won the box office with an estimated opening total of $153 million in ticket sales at 4,310 theaters in the U.S. and Canada from Friday through Sunday. It marks the seventh biggest opening for the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the second-biggest debut of a new Marvel character on the big-screen, behind only last year’s record-breaking Black Panther.
Holdovers How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World and Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral take second and third place respectively. In its third week at the box office, the final film in the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy continues to hover near the top of the box office, taking in an estimated $14.7 million across 4,042 theaters. A Madea Family Funeral also marks the end of an era as Tyler Perry’s final Madea film, and it firmly takes third place in its second week with an estimated $12 million across 2,442 theaters.
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Is this the one with the transgender superhero?
No she is all woman. (part human / Kree)
How much did “The Passion of The Christ” earn?
Doesn’t exactly match the hyped head line
Is anyone trustworthy verifying these $$$ figures?
Why would our entire civilization pay money to see women pretending to be masculine?
Title should state that the film did as well as to be predicted.
The Passion of the Christ opened in the United States on February 25, 2004 (Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent).
It earned $83,848,082 from 4,793 screens at 3,043 theaters in its opening weekend and a total of $125,185,971 since Wednesday, ranking it fourth overall in domestic opening weekend earnings for 2004 as well as the biggest weekend debut for a February release (until Fifty Shades of Grey was released).
It went on to earn $370,782,930 overall in the United States
Great. Keep feeding the narrative that women are all powerful and can NEVER be told what to do! No one will ever tell these “strong women” they can’t do anything, whether it’s aborting their child, or listening to anyone. It’s their body. It’s their life and no one puts baby in the corner.
The decline of the American woman has been precipitous. Action features such as this movie sooth these emotionally damaged creatures. Tragic.
Invest in cat supplies.
Hollywood’s fixation with juvenile comic-book pablum continues untreated. And brain-dead viewers lap it up like hogs in slop.
The buyers still got to see the movie they wanted but the money got credited to a different film.
It was always going to do well, it’s a marvel movie tied into the main arc it was never going to flop.
Just saw it, forget all the drama
Movie is MEH
First act was okay, second act it starts to fall apart and the third act is a flat out fustercluck.
It’s not terrible, but it does pander when it shouldn’t and doesn’t need to.
MCU is defiiitely trading down, from Iron Man driving the boat to Captain Marvel.
It’s a 3 out of 5 stars movie.
My guess is it will underperform expectations, but certainly be the biggest film this year in ticket sales until another MCU movie is released.
I’d much rather see a woman in spandex than a hairy legged male. YMMV
They need this one to succeed. This is the MCU going full woke. They even turned the Skrulls into refugee victims just to get their anti-Trumpiganda in there. There won’t be any backlash a la Solo after The Last Jedi, because everyone is going to see Endgame. I hope they have Captain Brie one-punch Thanos so the backlash can hit on the next film.
These childish comic book movies go to show that liberal chicks are feeble minded and need constant motivational and emotional reinforcement.
I'll pass ...
Examples of the first category:
Those examples are just off the top of my head. There are many I've missed, of course.
These days, America is faced by far more dangerous events, trends, and phenomena, but no movie is made about any of them. No movie can be made about any of them. All these dangerous things are protected by a thick shield of virtue-signaling and reality denial.
Someone who figures out how to produce movies about these things will get rich. The movies will have to be passed from hand to hand, like Samizdat in the USSR, but sooner or later it will happen.
I guess the payment model is probably one of the things that's preventing movies of this type from being made. Potential investors are probably out there, but they can't figure out how to get their money back.
So as a result we get rehashes of old comic book themes and teen coming-of-age movies no one wants to see.
I think that’s the real issue. Grownups-with-comic-books is part of the never-ending adolescence you get trying to entertain a society of snowflakes.
The How to Train Your Dragon sequel was fun
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