Captain America: The Winter Soldier kicked off its opening weekend with an impressive $10.2 million on Thursday, up from Thor 2.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier may have only reported for duty in the homeland on Thursday night with some late night screen showings (the earliest of which would have been 8pm and going until the midnight shows), but the picture is already seeing fireworks.
Marvel Studios is reporting that the superhero sequel grossed a whopping $10.2 million on its first evening at the frontlines, pushing it over the $100 million mark in worldwide gains since the picture first shipped out overseas. This total includes $1.2 million from the 344 IMAX screens that it’s playing on, which undoubtedly came in handy when it passed most of last year’s superhero Thursday pre-opening tallies, including Thor: The Dark World’s $7.1 million and Man of Steel’s $9 million. However, it still came in behind Iron Man 3’s marvelous number of $15.6 million from Thursday showings in May 2013.
Deadline reports that estimates are now around $85 million for Cap.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier stars Chris Evans, Anthony Mackie, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Robert Redford, and Samuel L. Jackson, and is now in theaters. You can read our review here and help us unpack what the two post-credits scenes meant here.
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