Captain America: Civil War Opens to Over $200 Million Internationally
05/01/2016 01:26 pm EDT
Captain America: Civil War had the second-highest opening of any Marvel Studios film to date in the international market this weekend, earning an estimated $200.2 million and trailing behind only Avengers: Age of Ultron in a number of markets, THR reports.
The movie, which is nominally a sequel to Captain America: The Winter Soldier but also picks up threads from Age of Ultron and stars Robert Downey, Jr. as Iron Man and Tom Holland as a newly-rebooted Spider-Man, is expected to open huge in the U.S. this coming weekend as well, perhaps even besting the opening-weekend record set by Marvel's The Avengers in 2012.
The film is currently sitting at a 94% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with great word of mouth. THR notes that if that number holds, it could be the highest Tomatometer rating yet for a Marvel movie -- but that's harder to do than it might sound. It's worth noting that around this time in their release schedule, The Avengers and Captain America: The Winter Soldier had similar ratings. The Avengers still stands as the highest-rated feature film from Marvel with 92%, and Winter Soldier isn't far behind with 89%, but eventually both settled in behind Iron Man's 94%.
In a year where the cinemas are expected to be dominated by huge franchises, sequels, and spinoffs, both Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and Deadpool had record opening weekends, but neither have managed to surpass Disney's Zootopia at the overall box office.
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