Box office: Captain America 4 in free fall, The Monkey makes the rooms tremble
The Monkey made a nice entry to the US box office. © Neon
It is not the new Captain America embodied by Anthony Mackie who will save the MCU. After a strong start -up of $ 100 million, the new Marvel movie Remains at the top of the American box office but seems much less interest to spectators because it lost 68% of its audience during its second weekend in dark rooms.
The annoying Marvel trend
If Captain America Having added only $ 28.2 million to his piggy bank this weekend, this is not the first film Disney/Marvel to undergo such a fall at the box office. Ant-man and the wasp: Quantumania had experienced a similar course in 2023 (fall of 69% after a start -up at $ 106 million) and The guards of the Galaxy Vol. 3 had also lost 47% of the public after a start -up at 188 million.
Likewise, Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madness And Thor: Love and Thunder had dropped 67% in the second weekend in 2022 (even if these two films had recorded much more impressive starts than the other Marvel productions mentioned).
The fact remains that Captain America: Brave New World also suffers from bad reviews and that it may well be that his passage in the cinemas turns out to be as lamentable as that ofAnt-man 3who had ended up becoming one of the only Marvel films not to have crossed the $ 500 million mark in world box office revenue.
For the moment, Brave New World generated $ 141 million in the United States and 289.4 million across the globe.
Theo James in The Monkey. © Neon
A monkey, a bear, and animation
In second place in the top 5, the new adapted thriller of Stephen King, The Monkeywith Theo James (The Gentlemen) and Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black), made a nice hallway with $ 14.2 million for its first operating weekend. This film signed by Osgood Perkins thus becomes the second best start for the independent production company Neon, behind Longlegsalso produced by Perkins.
For his part, Paddington in Peru Continue to leave a trace of marmalade on the American box office. The film distributed by Sony occupies third place in the box office with $ 6.5 million more under its hat, a decline of 49%.
However, this is not very surprising because the franchise Padadington Works less well in the United States than abroad, but with $ 150 million in global revenue to date, this third opus still has a way to go if he wishes to reach the height of its predecessors (326 million For Padadington and 290 for Paddington 2).
Finally, Dog Man continues to occupy fourth place in the podium with $ 5.9 million more to its credit. The Universal and DreamWorks animation film is just ahead Ne zha 2Chinese animated film that generated $ 4 million at the American box office this weekend.
The Chinese animated film does not zha 2. © Beijing Enlight Media
Internationally, this feature film which is a huge success in China (with more than $ 1.7 billion in revenue) has also passed ahead Vice-versa 2 and won the title of biggest success History for an animated film.
US box office from February 21 to 23, 2025 (estimates)
| MOVIE | WEEKEND | US Cumul | Cumulative world | WEEK | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Captain America: Brave New World | $ 28,200,000 | $ 141,205,738 | $ 289,405,738 | 2 |
| 2 | The Monkey | $ 14,200,000 | $ 14,200,000 | $ 14,200,000 | 1 |
| 3 | Paddington in Peru | $ 6,500,000 | $ 25,254,414 | $ 150,254,414 | 2 |
| 4 | Dog Man | $ 5,900,000 | $ 78,784,340 | $ 104,970,340 | 4 |
| 5 | Ne zha 2 | $ 4,386,690 | $ 14,860,000 | $ 28,371,443 (excluding China) | 2 |
