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This is just silly. It will break $1b worldwide on a $150m budget. It is a massive success. Some points...

Posted by: numbersix_99 on Apr 03, 01:55 in response to VictorY's post Solid. But domestically its stuck on "Spider Man...

No sure why Spidey 3 is being used as a comp. But even so it has beaten its BO performance. And CM has beaten every Spiderman film since. So what's your point here?

CM will earn over $1b worldwide. That is a massive success and will make it the 7th highest earning MCU film. As a comparable it has also beaten Wonder Woman's global BO.

Where did Disney say they were expecting a $450m film? Studios tend to low-ball predictions and the only Disney prediction I remember seeing was a $100m opening.

You say other MCU films that opened above $150m have earned over $400m as some sort of comparable. But the other big MCU openers all opened well beyond that - the next biggest being Iron Man 3's $174m. Look at the ratio for a comparible. At worst CM will close at the $380m (assuming 50% drops which is unlikely) which is is 2.5 times its opening weekend, higher than Iron Man 3, Captain America 3, and Avengers 2.

On the above you try to move the goalposts to win your argument - that CM is the worst performing original MCU film. But these characters are so obviously tied into the franchise that you're comparing apples and oranges. What a film like CM is now is not the same as Iron Man, when few outside the comic book world understood what a cinematic universe was. So of course this is going to have a different IM. Compariing it to Black Panther doesn't work, as in every way that film was an exception. And you could compare every other non-avengers MCU film to Black Panther and it would be deemed a disappointment.

Stop making arbitrary comparisons to find some sort of failure in a film that has earned a significant profit from its theatrical release alone. Not many films do this. Not many films earn over $1b (CM is in the all time Top 40 wordwide, unadjusted). Your only point seems to be its final tally to opening weekend ratio, which as shown above is stronger than other MCU films, which you don't deem as disappointments or failures. Turning your eye to the undeniable success of this movie (which, BTW, I haven't seen and probably won't) only demonstrates some sort of bias against it, for reasons beyond the data.

Captain Marvel will cross $1b worldwide this week professor zovek Apr 02, 13:38

Solid. But domestically its stuck on "Spider Man 3" territory and will struggle to break 400 million. {nm} VictorY Apr 02, 15:10

That's just your own artificial "recrod". {nm} Antibody Apr 02, 15:16

*record {nm} Antibody Apr 02, 15:16

Actually Disney was hoping for 450 domestic (off the opening) which is definitely not happening. {nm} VictorY Apr 02, 16:59

Says who? CMARV has better legs than IRNM2, IRNM3, CAPA3, AVNG2, GOTG2... {nm} Antibody Apr 02, 17:07

It will struggle to catch the final domestic totals of many of those. CM had a huge opening, so Disney was thinking 3X mtp like other Mavels {nm} VictorY Apr 02, 17:12

IRNM2, IRNM3, CAPA3, GOTG2, AVNG2 and not even AVNG3 made 3X opening. {nm} Antibody Apr 02, 17:15

But "Black Panther" did, which was the last solo new Marvel film. {nm} VictorY Apr 02, 17:22

So now you've further moved the goalpost to BPNTH, which no other MCU has matched either. {nm} Antibody Apr 02, 17:28

If look the new Marvel solo films. Most have done 3X multiplier domestic in their first films. Disney wasn't crazy to think it would happen. {nm} VictorY Apr 02, 18:09

CMARV has the second highest opening for a Marvel solo film. Disney is very happy. {nm} Antibody Apr 02, 18:23