Captain Marvel continues to perform admirably at the worldwide box office. Now a month into its run the movie is edging ever closer to $1bn having hit $990M according to estimates.
Over the weekend the movie grossed $20.5M in North America, falling in to third place behind Dumbo ($45M) and Us ($33.6M). Internationally the Marvel Studios release took in an estimated $26.4M.
Next week Captain Marvel faces stiff competition from the other Captain Marvel as Shazam! hits cinemas worldwide from April 5.
https://youtu.be/7OuXWwa0okMYou can read our review of Captain Marvel here.
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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