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‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ is a Box Office Hit with $300 Million Worldwide

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The $170 million dollar ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ took the top spot in the box office this weekend earning an estimated $303 million dollars worldwide including an additional $96 million dollars in the United States.

‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ lies behind Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, and The Avengers in the amount of money earned in the opening weekend.

Here are the demographics for the box-office hit:

The film played follows: 26-34: 27% Ages 35-49: 20% Ages 50+: 10% Under 25: 43% Over 25: 57% Couples – 58% Families – 23% Teens – 19% Male – 64% Female – 36% Format Split. The film played 60% 2D. It also played 23% straight 3D, 10% IMAX ($9.6m), and 7% PLF [PLF = Premium Large Format. -Ed].

Captain America: The Winter Soldier jumped 47% from the debut of Captain America: The First Avenger.  Thor: The Dark World jumped 31% above Thor‘s $65 million opening weekend. Iron Man 3 ($174m), which had the advantage of being the first installment in 3D  jumped 36% from Iron Man 2 ($28m) Captain America 2 had double the bump than the 25% bump from Iron Man ($102m) to Iron Man 2 ($128m). This is getting into the territory of break-out franchises. This is a X2 ($54m/$85m = 57%) and Transformers ($70m/$108m = 54%) level jump. [Forbes]

The other feature film, Noah, could not compete against, Captain America going down 61% from its opening weekend. Next weekend, Rio 2, Oculus, and ‘Draft Day’ starring Kevin Costner is set to premiere.

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier – $96.2M

2. Noah – $17M ($72M)

3. Divergent – $13 M ($114M)

4. God’s Not Dead – $7.7M ($33.1M)

5. The Grand Budapest Hotel $6.3M ($33.6M)

6. Muppets Most Wanted $6.2M ($42.1M)

7. Mr. Peabody And Sherman – $5.3M ($102.2M)

8. Sabotage $1.9M ($8.6M)

9. Need for Speed – $1.83 ($40.8M)

10. Non-Stop – $1.82M ($88.2M) [Indiewire]

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