Captain Marvel Has Already Earned More Than Wonder Woman
by EG
Captain Marvel has been out less than two weeks, but it's already earned more than many superhero movies--including the big hit Wonder Woman--earned during their entire theatrical runs. The new Marvel movie is likely to outearn nearly all of the rest of the genre before it's done. Read on for details.
Captain Marvel's standing among Hollywood studio superhero pics continues to impress.
The Marvel Studios and Disney tentpole finished Sunday — its 12th day in release — with $760.2 million in global ticket sales, besting the entire lifetime runs of numerous comic book adaptations, including Man of Steel and Wonder Woman.
And its already become one of the most successful female-fronted properties in history at the worldwide box office, passing up all of the Twilight films and three of the four installments in The Hunger Games series.
Captain Marvel, starring Brie Larson, is virtually assured of becoming only the eighth comic book adaptation to join the billion-dollar club after the three Avengers films, Iron Man 3, Captain America: Civil War and Aquaman, not adjusted for inflation. And it will be only the second superhero tentpole introducing a new stand-alone character to crack $1 billion behind Black Panther (sorry, Iron Man).
Globally, the movie has already earned more than The Amazing Spider-Man ($758 million), X-Men: Day of Future Past ($748 million), Suicide Squad ($747 million), Captain America: Winter Soldier ($714 million), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($709 million), Doctor Strange ($678 million), Man of Steel ($668 million), Justice League ($658 million), Thor: The Dark World ($645 million), Iron Man 2 ($624 million) and Ant-Man and The Wasp ($623 million), not adjusted for inflation.
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