BOX OFFICE: Captain America: The First Avenger Opens With $5M In China!

BOX OFFICE: Captain America: The First Avenger Opens With $5M In China!

Oh yes...Joe Johnston and Marvel's comic book adaptation Captain America: The First Avenger starring Chris Evans is still opening is some territories, and this weekend film opened in China, with a rather surprising numbers...

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By WolvieCBM - Sep 11, 2011 05:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Captain America
Source: THR

Out of all comic book movies that were released this year, we can safely say that Marvel's big screen adaptation Captain America: The First Avenger directed by Joe Johnston had the hardest job of getting big numbers internationally. But, considering everything, the star-spangled hero managed to collect $175 million, including the numbers from China, where it opened this weekend. The Hollywood Reporter has more info on that:



"Fifth was Paramount’s release of comic book adaptation Captain America: The First Avenger, which opened in China ($5 million over three days from 7,000 sites), and drew $8 million on the weekend overall from 9,039 situations in 60 territories."


So, basically, Captain America had a bigger opening weekend in China than Kenneth Branagh's Thor which opened with $3.8M and went on to grossing $20M overall. Could we see Cap on a $200M mark internationally soon? I think so. Film still has to open in Japan. As of now, Captain America is on $348M worldwide.

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Tymminator
Tymminator - 9/11/2011, 6:13 PM
Good.
Anthrax
Anthrax - 9/11/2011, 6:13 PM
[frick] YEAH godzilla will spare you...for now
spiderclone
spiderclone - 9/11/2011, 6:15 PM
anthrax godzilla is japanese not chinese
JULEZ13
JULEZ13 - 9/11/2011, 6:15 PM
I'm gonna say it again. CA was a great movie, 10 times better than Thor so I'm not surprised at all that it made more money. But $5 million opening night in China? Now that is quite a shocker.
Anthrax
Anthrax - 9/11/2011, 6:17 PM
@returnhangar one can dream and my dream says its going to CHINA!
MaddMonkk
MaddMonkk - 9/11/2011, 6:17 PM
"The Collective Man: China's Avenger" will open in America with a record breaking 12 dollars and a set of 3-D glasses.
Anthrax
Anthrax - 9/11/2011, 6:18 PM
@MONK LMFAO
C0nan
C0nan - 9/11/2011, 6:18 PM
Not bad. I understand why this is. It's a fun movie. earthy.

It's not as grandiose as Thor was.
HeyVanity
HeyVanity - 9/11/2011, 6:20 PM
lol @ the Godzilla comment...
Bodwulf
Bodwulf - 9/11/2011, 6:22 PM
Cap was fantastic even with the big plot hole. I loved it and cannot wait to see him in the Avengers.
marvel72
marvel72 - 9/11/2011, 6:23 PM
captain america is a very good movie,its deserves all the money it gets.thought it would do at least make $400,000,000 worldwide it was definetly comic book movie of the year,only slightly better than thor.
Anthrax
Anthrax - 9/11/2011, 6:25 PM
OFF TOPIC:UGH I JUST TWO GIRLS AND A CUP
Anthrax
Anthrax - 9/11/2011, 6:26 PM
SAW*
Bodwulf
Bodwulf - 9/11/2011, 6:27 PM
"The First Avenger directed by Joe Johnston had the hardest job of getting big numbers internationally."

I think a lot of that expectation came from the fact we are told constantly that America is uniformly hated around the world. That is not true. Some hate yes, but others love it and flock to it for oportunity and freedom from their own countries oppression.
Curmudgeon
Curmudgeon - 9/11/2011, 6:28 PM
Another interesting factoid, if you want to add it to your article:

Captain America has now officially made more overseas ($175 mil) than it has in the US ($173.4)
niceguyeddie
niceguyeddie - 9/11/2011, 6:30 PM
All I know is I loves me some Asian women.
spiderclone
spiderclone - 9/11/2011, 6:36 PM
every bond you buy is a bullet in the barrel of your best guys gun, i loved captain america and i loved the uso scenes. especially when the real soldiers were compltey unimpressed with him,:D lets see if the succsess/ fan base of iron man thor and cap movies can combine to make a really high grossing film : D
spiderclone
spiderclone - 9/11/2011, 6:38 PM
the grossing film i mean will be te avengers. sorry forgot to add that :P
LoudLon
LoudLon - 9/11/2011, 6:41 PM
According to boxofficemojo that brings CA:TFA to just shy of 350 million.

Pretty good haul, but I agree with those above who said it should have made more. I thought it was worlds better than Thor.

But, what can you do, except shrug and say "What can you do?"
superbatspiderman
superbatspiderman - 9/11/2011, 6:45 PM
Yeah if America keeps going the way it is going we will have to change the character to Captain China cuz they pretty much own our butts.
Spidey91
Spidey91 - 9/11/2011, 6:54 PM
*cue "America,F*CK YEAH!" song*
ROMACK
ROMACK - 9/11/2011, 7:45 PM
@Intruder- Hells Yeah!
TiVo
TiVo - 9/11/2011, 7:57 PM
Not sure why it has not been mentioned here before but even tho CA-TFA had less revenue here in the USA more people actaully went to see Cap volume wise. Because Thor opened in more theatres as 3D and more people wanted to watch it this way it actually did slightly better financially because of the premium payed (higher ticket prices and glasses)over watching it in regular ole 2D. And most people did not want or care about seeing Cap in 3D plus Cap had much more competition when it opened than Thor (Potter, etc.).

In my book because Cap had more eyes watching it here in the U.S. I'd call it a win. As far as overseas our so called allies are the ones that really hate our culture. Others may hate the government but love our culture....
ROMACK
ROMACK - 9/11/2011, 8:04 PM
Hell...I'm not too crazy about our government. Our country is ran by crooked politicians who are influenced by millions of dollars from corporate lobbyists. That, and the government lies to us all the time like most governments around the world.
LFANCH
LFANCH - 9/11/2011, 8:07 PM
@intruder it's never a good plan to rely on north korea. but yeah, i doubt any war with china will happen any time soon. most countries economies are very connected, if one were to just tank then it would suck for everybody. plus nobody likes communists. even though the chineses are kinda psuedo communists now. if they were real communists then they would have collapsed just like russia.
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