Box office forecasting is becoming a full time job for some. As more and more huge releases hit the screen the press is becoming evermore obsessed with pre-release tracking figures.
We’ve seen Captain Marvel, the latest release from the Marvel/Disney partnership, sky rocketing from $100M to $120M in its forecast.
Now a new report from Fandango has out the film ahead of some of your other favourites. It’s now said that Captain Marvel is pacing ahead of the likes of Wonder Woman and Aquaman in ticket sales. It is also said to be outpacing the original Deadpool in pre-release sales.
At the time of writing the movie sits behind only Black Panther in terms of the biggest, pre-release, ticket sales for a comic book movie.
https://twitter.com/Fandango/status/109869636293648793Just how high could that opening weekend box office sky rocket?
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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