‘Captain Marvel’ tops box office
Global grosses up to $760 million.
LOS ANGELES – “Captain Marvel” has continued to dominate the global box office in its second weekend in theaters, leaving newcomers in the dust.
On Sunday, Walt Disney Studios estimates that the intergalactic superhero fell only 55 percent from its record-breaking opening. This weekend, “Captain Marvel” earned an additional $69.3 million from North American theaters and $120 million internationally, bringing its global grosses to $760 million.
With Brie Larson in the title role, “Captain Marvel” has already surpassed the lifetime grosses of a slew of superhero films including “Justice League,” ”Captain America: The Winter Soldier” and “The Amazing Spider-Man.”
In a very distant second, the new animated family film “Wonder Park” struggled with $16 million against a reported $100 million budget.
Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore, says it’s hard to compete with “Captain Marvel,” which is playing to all ages and audiences. But the PG-rated pic about a girl who dreams up an amusement park did not score well with critics: Just 30 percent of Rotten Tomatoes reviewers liked it.
But it wasn’t all bad news for the films in “Captain Marvel’s” shadow. The Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson film “Five Feet Apart” opened in third place with $13.2 million in ticket sales, which is nearly double its production budget.
“How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” dropped to fourth place with about $9.3 million, and Tyler Perry’s “A Madea Family Funeral” landed in fifth with $8.1 million.
The Spanish-language newcomer “No Manches Frida 2,” which opened on only 472 screens, grossed $3.9 million to take sixth place.
“Captive State,” an alien invasion thriller starring rapper Machine Gun Kelly (aka Colson Baker), floundered in seventh place with $3.2 million against a $25 million budget.