CAPTAIN MARVEL lands with over $20M in Thursday previews

Captain Marvel landed in cinemas across the globe late on Thursday night. All signs are pointing to what will be a very healthy weekend box office for the latest branch of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Predictions put the film anywhere between $20M and $25M for the Thursday night. When the receipts were all counted that figure was $20.7M. Whilst on the lower end of the estimate it is completely within expectations.

Now we turn our eyes to the remainder of the weekend where the film is said to rake in anywhere between $125M up to $150M.

We saw the movie last night and will be bringing you our review later today.

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 is in cinemas now.

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