Whenever a new Marvel movie comes out, there’s not much else to talk about at the box office, as no one wants to open a movie against it and the Marvel movie plays on so many screens that it’s inevitable that it claims the top prize. And so it was this weekend, as Captain America: The Winter Soldier handily made more than most of the rest of the top 10 combined and set a new opening weekend record for April. Captain made $96.2 million over the 3-day period, a huge step up from the $65 million the original made in its opening weekend and a slight step up from the $85 million the last Marvel movie (Thor: The Dark World) made back in November. Captain‘s made $303 million counting overseas grosses thus far, and is on track to be the fifth highest grossing Marvel film (behind the three Iron Mans and The Avengers, of course).
There were a couple other new releases in the indie world, the most notable of which was the Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin, Scarlet Johansson’s other weekend release. It racked up an impressive $140,000 on four screens on the wave of excellent reviews and a weird premise that could sink or swim with audiences if it expands wider in the coming weeks. Two films that were shot in 2010 and are just now getting released for various reasons also made their limited release debut this weekend, to weak results. Halle Berry’s Frankie and Alice made $350,000 on nearly 200 screens, and Jinn, the movie about genies with the guy who played Darth Maul, opened in just as many theaters and only scored $140,000 on the basis of scorched-earth reviews and no one caring.
In older releases, Noah plummeted 61 percent this week to number 2 with $17 million and $72.3 million overall, though it’s topped $200 million when foreign grosses are added to the tally. Divergent made $13 million at number 3 and officially crossed the $100 million mark with $114 million overall, meaning that we’re likely to get more in the future. And the Christian movie God’s Not Dead continues to be a runaway minor success, dropping only 12 percent to number 4 and racking up another $7.7 million for a $32.5 million total. With Easter on the way, that number’s only likely to grow.
Source: BoxOfficeMojo
