Marvel Confirms Captain America 3 Is Going Up Against Batman Vs. Superman In May 2016

Confirming a rumor we first heard about last month, Marvel Studios and Disney have officially announced that the tentatively titled Captain America 3 is slated for a May 6, 2016 release date. And not-so-coincidentally, that is the same day as Warner Brothers’ hotly anticipated Batman vs. Superman team-up is due to hit theaters.

Disney made the official announcement in a press release Monday morning, following the impressive $96 million box office take for Captain America: The Winter Soldier over the weekend. The number marks the second Captain America movie as the most successful April release on record and is a 32 percent increase from Captain America: The First Avenger’s $65 million take in 2011.

A great achievement in every sense, Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the movie many fans have been waiting for (read our own review here) and is Marvel’s biggest opening to date that didn't feature Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man. With that said, we are still very curious about what this means for the cowl-to-cowl clash of the Captain and the Dark Knight (Superman too). Despite proving Captain America is now one of the most viable movie franchises out there, The Winter Soldier’s weekend bow does not quite measure up to Man of Steel’s $116 million debut in June 2013, and it surely is not in the same ballpark of the last two cinematic Batman adventures from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy, which both crossed well north of $150 million in their first three days (a first in 2008 when The Dark Knight did it).

Indeed, other than Iron Man, no superhero has yet to rise to those heights in a lone adventure. If push comes to shove, we wouldn’t be surprised if our previous predictions about this stand-off come to pass.

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