Box Office: On The Academy Awards Weekend, ‘Brave New World’ Maintains the Barren Pack

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.

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