CAPTAIN MARVEL tracking huge $160M opening weekend

As the years tick by movie studios seem to become more and more focussed on box office tracking ahead of big movie releases. We’re increasingly seeing headlines made up of tracking data in the weeks leading up to release day.

Captain Marvel is no strange to those headlines. The first entry in the MCU headlined by a female character has huge expectations amongst the fan community. Many could argue more rests on the shoulders of Brie Larson than even that of Avengers: Endgame.

If you fall in to that category then Box Office Pro has some good news for you. According to the latest figures Captain Marvel is currently tracking for a $160M opening weekend in North America. At the lower end of the scale the site reckons the movie could make $140M whilst at the top end it could reach $180M.

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Set in the 1990s, Marvel Studios’ “Captain Marvel” is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that follows the journey of Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes. While a galactic war between two alien races reaches Earth, Danvers finds herself and a small cadre of allies at the center of the maelstrom.

Captain Marvel stars Brie Larson as Carol Danvers, a U.S. Air Force pilot whose an Air Force whose DNA fuses with that of an alien, and she’s thrust into the middle of an intergalactic conflict. The cast also includes Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Jude Law as Mar-Vell, Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson, Lee Pace as Ronan the Accuser, Djimon Hounsou as Korath the Pursuer, Gemma Chan as Minn-Erva, and Ben Mendelsohn, Lashana Lynch, Algenis Perez Soto and McKenna Grace in as-yet-undisclosed roles.

Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck from a script they wrote with Liz Flahive, Carly Mensch, Meg LeFauve, Nicole Perlman and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Captain Marvel arrives March 8, 2019.

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