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BeforeCaptain America : The Winter Soldiereven rack up theaters it was confirmed that directors ( and brothers ) Anthony and Joe Russo would be helping plan out thestory forCaptain America 3and again directing . It was a showing of assurance from Marvel Studios and its cardinal decision - Divine Kevin Feige , but an unsurpising one considering the vital reception to the film .
Early reviews ofCaptain America 2labeled it one of the studio apartment ’s best and now that it ’s out , it ’s manifest fresh on Rotten Tomatoes , with numbers comparable toIron ManandThe Avengers , Marvel ’s two strongest scored films to date . And like fellow Marvel sequelThor : The Dark World , the secondCaptain Americafilm is serving as a test for the studio , releasing in theater outside of the traditional key summer smash hit date . And it ’s working .
Thor 2opened in November , and thanks to the boost of brand acknowledgement fromThe Avengers , hit $ 85.7 million domestically on opening move weekend . Captain America : The Winter Soldier , already having break advanced ticket gross sales phonograph record for the month of April , is on raceway to potentially beat that number - an interesting switch since the originalThoroutsoldCaptain America : The First Avengertwo years ago ( both open summer 2011 ) .
On Thursday , the twenty-four hour period before open blanket in North America , 82 % of all ticket pre - sales on Fandango were forCaptain America : The Winter Soldier , and the numbers beat out any other April release in the company ’s 14 - year history . harmonize toBoxOffice.com , the opening weekend forecast forCap 2is around $ 94 million , with some estimation assign it near $ 100 million . The current record - holder for April opening night isFast Fivewhich earned $ 86.2 million in the final April weekend of 2011 ( on week before the summer movie season formally begins ) .
While the weekend is n’t quite over yet , we do have some numbers for compare . Studio estimates haveThe Winter Soldierearning $ 10.2 million on its early Thursday eve screening , beating last year’sMan of Steel($9 million ) andThor 2($8.8 million ) . It does n’t quite hail closely to the cock-a-hoop summer mega hitsIron Man 3($15.6 million ) andThe Avengers($18.7 million ) though .
On Friday , the moving picture broke an April box seat place record , make for in $ 37 million from 3,938 theater CRT screen across North America , some 80 % of them in 3D. By comparison , previous phonograph recording holderFast Fiveearned $ 34.4 million in its top single - day . With over $ 100 million already made abroad where the film opened first , Captain America : The Winter Soldieris expected to have earned $ 270 million worldwide by the end of the weekend . Marvel has another great strike on their hands .
It ’s no surprisal then thatCaptain America 3will lead off shoot next yearfor an expected May 2016 release , where it ’s presently sharing a weekend with braggart competitorBatman vs. Supermanfrom DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. One of the films is expected to move and while Marvel Studios president of production Kevin Feige went on disc start thatMarvel Studios has no program to change dates , the April achiever ofCaptain America 2could mean its follow-up sees its date pushed up to a standardised weekend in 2016 .
Wespoke with Feige at theCaptain America : The Winter Soldierjunketa few weeks ago where we asked about the non - summer release dates of Marvel ’s Phase 2 films ( Thor 2 in November , Cap 2 in April , andGuardians of the Galaxyin August ) and he explained that they ’re seeing if their theory of releasing good movies is more important than the date itself .
" Well , there are two things : one , Sony had a Spider - Man motion-picture show on that first weekend in May , and we also want to endeavor to spread out that summer time of year , frankly . There are so many picture show every weekend , and we started to count at other films that had done extremely well in March , extremely well in April , and really of the belief that if you put out a good movie , a honorable product , you’re able to put it out any time of the year . We will test that in three weeks . "
Of naturally , the release test dish up another function as well . With Sony preparation to releaseSpider - Manfilms annually andFox lately announcing 1 - 2X - Men / Fantastic Fourfilms per year , the amount of weekend and space between these tentpole discharge is running out for Marvel - branded motion-picture show , especially with Marvel Studios releasing two per year with talk of potentiallyexpanding to three - four in the future .
Captain America : The Winter SoldierandThor : The Dark Worldprove that Marvel Studios can win with releasing a twain of summer filmsandreleasing them in the spring and gloam . Is it a sign of thing to come ?
Like the post-horse above ? The print are by artist Rich Kelly and became available April 4th ( twenty-four hour period of film ’s dismission ) atMondoTees.comand betray out in less than a sidereal day !
[ Update : The total weekend estimate hasCaptain America : The Winter Soldierearning $ 96.2 million in its domestic first step with its universal total already at $ 303.3 million . It ’s the largest April possible action of all - time . ]
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Captain America : The Winter Soldieris produced by Kevin Feige , conduct by Anthony and Joe Russo , from a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely , and stars Chris Evans , Scarlett Johansson , Sebastian Stan , Anthony Mackie , Cobie Smulders , Frank Grillo , Emily VanCamp and Hayley Atwell , with Robert Redford as Alexander Pierce and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury .
Captain America : The Winter Soldieris now in dramatics , Guardians of the GalaxyopensAugust 1 , 2014,The Avengers : Age of Ultronon May 1 , 2015,Ant - Manon July 17 , 2015 , and unannounced films for May 6 2016 , July 8 2016 and May 5 2017 .
Sources : BoxOffice.com , Fandango , THR
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