Captain Marvel (Official Thread) March 8th 2019: 7th Marvel Film To Cross 1B$

[Stone]

Is it possible Monica will be shown as an adult in End Game?

Ant man is presumably gonna wind up in the future so I’d say there’s a shot.

 

[Norrin Radd]

‘Captain Marvel’ Blasting Off With $20M-$24M Thursday Night – Early B.O. Read

Proof that moviegoing isn’t dead this year, that it just boils down to the product on the marquee, can be vividly seen tonight: Disney’s Captain Marvelstarring Oscar winner Brie Larson is on her way to an estimated $20M-$24MThursday night per Deadline industry sources; one of the best box office-grossing days that 2019 has seen to date after How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World‘s first Saturday of $22.2M. Since these are rough B.O. estimates, not from Disney, we always have to footnote that they can increase or decrease by Friday AM.

Should Captain Marvel continue on the pace with what we’re seeing tonight, she’ll rank as the second best preview night for March behind Warner Bros.’ Batman v. Superman‘s Holy Thursday 2016 take of $27.7M.

Previews began at 6PM for Captain Marvel, the same time that Thursday previews started for Ant-Man and the Wasp, instead of the usual 7pm which was when Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War fired up.

The range for Captain Marvel is higher than another female-led vehicle, Lionsgate’s Hunger Games, which made $19.7M on its first Thursday back on March 22, 2012. It’s also higher than the first night of Marvel’s Avengers ($18.7M), could beat the preview night of Warner Bros. Suicide Squad ($20.5M) and just under the first Thursdays of last year’s Black Panther ($25.2M) and May 2016’s Captain America: Civil War ($25M). Next to the first night of Warner Bros.’ Wonder Woman in June 2017, Captain Marvel is besting her $11M preview by 118%. Fantastic.

Suicide Squad‘s Thursday night repped 32% of its $64.8M opening Friday turning into a $133.6M opening, the best August has ever seen. Captain America saw around the same share, with Thursday repping 33% of its $75.5M Friday for a $179.1M opening weekend. This gives you an idea of Captain Marvel‘s potential for the weekend. Tracking was between $120M-$140M and recently rose at the top end to $155M today for the Anna Boden-Ryan Fleck-directed superhero movie.

In Fandango pre-sales, Captain Marvel is their top advance ticket seller since Avengers: Infinity War last year. In the digital ticket-seller’s survey, 98% of those polled are looking forward to seeing how Captain Marvel connects with the ongoing Avengers storyline. In seven weeks, Disney will open Avengers: Endgame on April 26, jumpstarting the summer early just like they did last year with Infinity War.

Captain Marvel has all the premium super-powers at her command i.e. 3,000 of her 4,200 theaters are 3D-equipped, all 400-plus Imax hubs, 750 premium large format screens and 250 D-box locations. Captain Marvel carries a production budget around $152M (Black Panther cost an estimated $200M before P&A).

Rotten Tomatoes for Captain Marvel stands at 82% certified fresh from 248 reviews, which is healthy enough for a four-quad picture to start a fire over the weekend. Splicing hairs: critics were more marveled by Warner Bros./DC’s Wonder Woman which earned a 93% RT off 417 reviews.

 

[Brandeezy]

Bottom of the pack when it comes to MCU mid/post credit scenes

The first one could've been used in any End Game trailer and the 2nd could've been a gag at the end of a CM trailer.

 

[Yaddam Yussein]

shyt was

 

[dakidbanks]

It was good.. not excellent.... I saw it in IMAX and didn’t see anything noteworthy in IMAX. It’s a good snack to hold you over until Endgame and seeing Fury before he became extra paranoid was entertaining.

I’m still confused as to what’s canon in regards to how Shield ended up in the possession of the you know what though.. I guess we’re dismissing HS finding it unless he found it and wound up in the hands of that Kree on Earth

 

[T'Challa Trillmonger]

It's funny reading most of ya'll consensus on here about saying that the character development and the like was what did the movie justice the most, whereas I'm watching comic book reviewers saying while they liked the movie, it fell short in the development area for Cap. Marvel.

i enjoyed the movie because i went in with low expectations and also because i expected a particular take of captn marvel based on some of her story arcs. so the divergence in the movie worked out for me

the dynamic of carol/young fury may be the best part to me tho, it also hid some of the actresses weaknesses and had a already liked and established character to play off of

Spoiler

skrulls being good in this movie, with the whole refugee commentary, was unexpected if you know them from the comics ... bt marvel be doing these lowkey subversion of established comic stuff ... like most people expecting jude law to be mar-vell

i guess they could have things change if they end up rebooting the MCU after endgame

 

[KevCo]

Spoiler

BREHS! The Tesseract appearing and being used in the 90’s messes up Avengers continuity, didn’t it? I thought Shield found Cap AND the tesseract in 2012 aka The start of Avengers. Plus in Avengers, Fury acted like he ain’t know what the Tesseract was.....also all humans who handled the Tesseract in Avengers had gloves or tongs.....In Captain Marvel, Nick Fury grabbed it with his bare hands! Captain Marvel opened a whole new can of worms

Spoiler

He never touched it, cat ate it before he could touch it.

 

[parallax]

for those that have seen the movie, can you confirm something for me?

Spoiler

is it true the avengers were named after carol?

 

[Lannister]

Movie was dope but Thanos gonna mop her

She ain’t enough, they gonna need a loophole or some shyt to beat Thanos

Without the gauntlet, Thanos is fukked. He has no answer to her binary/photon powers. Tony stood toe to toe with him, made him bleed, and Peter made him buckle with a kick, Carol is in much higher bracket than they are. MCU Thanos is one of the weaker iterations of the character.

 

[Lannister]

On first viewing I liked this more than aquaman to be honest

Other than visuals and scope, Aquaman wasn't that good lol.

 

[Optimus Prime]

for those that have seen the movie, can you confirm something for me?

Spoiler

is it true the avengers were named after carol?

Spoiler

yes, at the end, while typing up a report detailing the new initiative, Fury finds a picture of Carol's Air Force plane and below the cockpit it says Carol "Avenger" Danvers. He changes the name of the report to "The Avenger Initiative"

 

[Rell84shots]

 

[Take It In Blood]

Endgame being 3 hours is making me suspicious. Having CM AND Thor AND you already know Stark gonna find a way to upgrade seems like Thanos gonna get washed pretty easily. Hell Thor almost beat him by himself. There’s gotta be more to this

half the film gonna be them traveling through time doing rick n morty type shyt

 

[Niggthaniel Essex]

Spoiler

The Stan Lee Marvel Studios logo intro was a nice touch.

Whole theater clapped for it

 

[Rell84shots]

Spoiler: All I wanted to see anyway