‘Captain Marvel’ continues to dominate in second week
“Captain Marvel” again ruled the global box office in its second weekend in theaters, leaving newcomers in the dust.
Walt Disney Studios’ intergalactic superhero fell only 56 percent from its record-breaking opening. This past weekend,
“Captain Marvel” earned an additional $68 million from North American theaters and $119.7 million internationally, bringing its global grosses to $760.8 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, Paramount’s animated family film “Wonder
Park” struggled with $15.9 million against a reported $100 million budget. Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst for box office tracker Comscore, said that 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 either — it’s currently sitting at a 30 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
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. The film from Lionsgate and CBS Films focuses on two teens with cystic fibrosis.
Audiences were overwhelmingly female
(82 percent) and young (65 percent younger than 25 and 45 percent younger than 18).
“You don’t always have to be No. 1 to have a success,” Dergarabedian said. “And ‘Five Feet Apart’ proves that.”
It was a good weekend overall for Lionsgate, which had three films in the top 10, including “Five Feet Apart,” Tyler Perry’s “A Madea Family Funeral,” which landed in fifth place with $7.8 million (behind “How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” with $9.3 million) and the Spanishlanguage newcomer “No Manches Frida 2,” which opened on only 472 screens and grossed $3.8 million to take sixth place.