Not that the competition has been much of anything as we’re headfirst into discovering the Academy Award winners tonight, Captain America: Brave New World maintained a three-weekend lead with $15 million (-47%). The Captain America fourquel is headed towards $350 million worldwide and should “just” reach the $200 million domestic benchmark. The legs have settled a bit more, affirming that audiences may be “OK” with Anthony Mackie leading as the star-spangled hero, unlike Quantumania, which ripped the core and intellect of Marvel’s tiny hero or The Marvels, which suffered from MacGuffin fatigue despite a neat premise about body-switching. It should still reach $415-420 million worldwide once the parade has wrapped up; Thunderbolts, it is time to prove the MCU can still hold its own come summertime.
Focus Features’ Last Breath took second place at the box office with $7.8 million. The rescue drama starring Woody Harrelson and Simu Liu earned very positive word of mouth and a B+ from CinemaScore. While it didn’t drop like a raging fire like Nosferatu, it still was a good enough opening when they purchased the rights for $5 million.
The Monkey dipped 56% with $6.376 million and is now at $24.6 million domestically. Legs could be much higher for the horror genre, but we’ll take a good note wherever possible. It is NEON’s fourth-highest domestic earner thus far. Paddington in Peru is already gunning for Paddington 2‘s domestic total, which is already at $31.4 million domestically. Dog Man will be past $85 million by tomorrow morning.
Oh, and Ne Zha 2 will also be passing $2 billion worldwide sometime tomorrow.
Next weekend sees the release of Mickey 17, In the Lost Lands, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, F*** Marry Kill, The Senior, and Eephus.

