And The Oscar for Not Terrible 3rd Weekend MCU Hold Goes To...: Weekend Box Office Results (Feb. 28-Mar. 2)
Are the numbers good? No, but
$15M is good enough for
Captain America: Brave New World to take first place again.
That
-46.8% 3rd weekend hold does beat
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3's -47.7% hold. Of course, that came with
$32.4M which is more than double Brace New World's $15M, but who's counting?
One recent MCU entry that Cap did best was
Quantumania's $12.8M third weekend, which was a
59.9% dip.
That drop came with the release of
Creed lll. But, again, who's counting?
So, how's it looking after 3 weekends?
Brave New World has totaled
$163.6M. That's still less than
Civil War's $179.1M opening.
It
only trails
Quantumania's $187.1M 3-weekend total by $23.5M. That means
Brave New World is actually showing slightly better legs, with a
1.84 multiple off its opening weekend to
Quantumania's 1.76 at the same time.
Can
Brave New World make it to
$200M? I don't think so. I'm guessing it'll finish it's theatrical run at
192.2M. Will that be good enough to yield a Captain America 5?
Captain America might be on his last breath but
Last Breath is gasping for air with a
$7.8M opening. That was barely enough oxygen in the tank to hold onto second place. Gotta remember the law of thirds when diving down deep.
How bout
The Monkey holding up well with
$6.3M? That 54.7% decline is a great horror hold but it's still no
Longlegs which fell by only 46.6% in its second frame en route to
$11.9M, for a
$44.9M running total. The Monkey only counts
$24.5M so far.
Longlegs it is not.
Paddington in Peru was fourth with
$4.5M. Its $31.3M running 3-week total just trails
Paddington 2's $32.1M.
Dog Man was narrowly edged out for fourth place with
$4.2M. Thank God for February vacation and the weekends, which have brought this to a respectable
$84M running total. This weekend saw Dog Man pass fellow DreamWorks Animation films
Turbo (
$83M) and
Penguins of Madagascar's $83.3M domestic totals.
Notables
Mufasa: The Lion King has grossed $700M worldwide,
$702.3M to be exact. Its
$247.9M domestic total passes
Toy Story 2's $245.8M to become Disney Picture's 23rd highest grossing movie.
Top Ten
Rank | LW | Movie | Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Total Gross | Weekend | Distributor |
| 1 | 1 | Captain America: Brave New World | $15,000,000 | -46.8% | 3,800 | $163,696,598 | 3 | Disney |
| 2 | - | Last Breath | $7,800,000 | - | 3,018 | $7,800,000 | 1 | Focus Features |
| 3 | 2 | The Monkey | $6,350,000 | -54.7% | 3,227 | $24,591,350 | 2 | Neon |
| 4 | 3 | Paddington in Peru | $4,500,228 | -30.8% | 3,705 | $31,359,000 | 3 | Sony |
| 5 | 4 | Dog Man | $4,200,035 | -28.3% | 3,055 | $84,060,000 | 5 | DreamWorks |
| 6 | 8 | Mufasa: The Lion King | $1,900,000 | -25% | 1,705 | $247,996,607 | 11 | Disney |
| 7 | 6 | Heart Eyes | $1,325,069 | -51% | 2,406 | $28,887,000 | 4 | Paramount |
| 8 | 9 | The Unbreakable Boy | $1,200,000 | -49.7% | 1,717 | $4,532,392 | 2 | Lionsgate |
| 9 | 10 | One of Them Days | $925,000 | -33.2% | 875 | $47,471,215 | 7 | Sony |
