Captain America: Brave New World Brings In $100 Million During Holiday Weekend

Despite its critics, Marvel Studios Captain America: Brave New World has shown them that it is Box Office Hit, bringing in $100 million during Valentine’s Day/Presidents Day weekend, including $88.4 million for the three days.

The reports are coming in, and they show that Anthony Mackie’s Captain America film started with $192.4 million after launching to $92.4 million internationally. It has also become one of the top domestic openings for the Presidents Day holiday and the biggest opening of 2025 to date.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, it was the fourth-biggest Presidents Day four-day launch behind three other Marvel pics; 2018’s Black Panther ($242.2 million), which shattered records for director Ryan Coogler and Marvel/Disney in becoming the first Hollywood tentpole to feature a virtually all-Black cast; Ryan Reynolds’ maverick and groundbreaking 2016 film Deadpool ($152.2 million) and 2023’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ($120 million), not adjusted for inflation. Whether the critics like it or not, Brave New World was the film Marvel needed to breathe a sigh of relief, after facing several setbacks with most of its films (Unlike its rival, Warner Bros Discovery, which has been facing constant Comic Book Film related box office flops, pinning it’s hopes on James Gunn’s Superman Film), but is in a better place now, thanks to Deadpool & Wolverine, which became the top-grossing R-rated pic of all time after earning north of $1.3 billion globally in the summer of 2024. Listed below are this weekend’s top five box office numbers:

1. Captain America: Brave New World– $100,000,000
2. Paddington in Peru– $16,000,000
3. Dog Man– $12,500,000
4. Heart Eyes– $11,100,00
5. Ne Zha 2– $8,300,000

Sam Wilson was created by writer Stan Lee and Artist Gene Colan. Wilson made his heroic debut in Captain America Issue #117 (September 1969) and as Captain America in CAPTAIN AMERICA: SENTINEL OF LIBERTY (1998) #8 by Mark Waid and Cully Hamner, and years later in Captain America Issue #25 (December 2014) by Remender and Stuart Immonen. Since his debut, Sam Wilson has made numerous appearances in comic books, TV Animated Shows, films, and video games. Thaddeus E. “Thunderbolt” Ross was created by writer Stan Lee and Artist Jack “The King” Kirby. Ross made his debut as a Nemesis for the Hulk in The Incredible Hulk Issue One (May 1962), and would eventually become an uninhibited, tactically intelligent adversary for the Hulk as the Red Hulk (Created by Writer Jeph Loeb and Artist Ed McGuinness) in HULK Issue One (January 2008). Thaddeus E. Ross would also make numerous appearances in comic books, animated TV shows, films, and Video Games.

The books I would recommend for those who want to follow Sam Wilson’s Captain America from the beginning, check out the collected editions of Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty (1998), Captain America: Sam Wilson – The Complete Collection Vol. 1, Captain America: Symbol Of Truth Vol. 1: Homeland, The United States Of Captain America. For those who would like to explore Red Hulk’s beginning, check out HULK MODERN ERA EPIC COLLECTION: WHO IS THE RED HULK?

Anthony Mackie returns as the high-flying hero Sam Wilson, who’s officially taken up the mantle of Captain America. After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter, Box Office Mojo

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