'Captain Marvel' took in $153 million in North America and another $302 million internationally, giving it an estimated global opening weekend of $455 million, the sixth highest global debut of all time
LOS ANGELES - Brie Larson's"Captain Marvel" is soaring to a heroic opening weekend of $153 million in North America at 4,310 sites, reviving what had been a slumbering 2019 box office.
The 21st instalment of Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe propelled total domestic moviegoing to $210 million -- nearly $70 million above the same frame last year. It was the first weekend of 2019 to outperform the same frame of 2018. Larson stars as Carol Danvers, the pilot who becomes the vastly powerful Captain Marvel after the Earth is caught at the centre of a galactic conflict in 1995. The cast includes Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch, Gemma Chan, Annette Bening, Clark Gregg, and Jude Law. The movie is written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.
Total domestic box office for 2019, which had plunged by 27 percent before the weekend, is now down 21 percent at $1.79 billion, according to Comscore's Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst.
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