MICKEY 17 Dethrones CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD At U.S. Box Office As MCU Movie Nears THE FIRST AVENGER

Captain America: Brave New World's run at the top of the North American box office has ended, but despite being taken down by Mickey 17, the movie will soon surpass Captain America: The First Avenger.

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By JoshWilding - Mar 09, 2025 08:03 AM EST

Filed Under: Captain America: Brave New World

Despite underperforming, Captain America: Brave New World has comfortably remained #1 at the North American box office since opening on February 14. Well, that changed this weekend with the release of Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17.

The sci-fi comedy starring Robert Pattinson earned a combined $7.7 million from Thursday preview screenings/Friday for a projected $18 million - $20 million opening weekend. It's a slow start, especially with a $118 million production budget. Based on these numbers, profitability is unlikely for the first of several pricey original titles Warner Bros. plans to release this year.

Mickey 17 has 79% on Rotten Tomatoes but was rated lower than that by moviegoers with 73%. It's also been awarded a "B" CinemaScore, suggesting something about it hasn't quite landed (there have also been social media grumblings about a character, played by Mark Ruffalo, who appears to be a pastiche of Donald Trump).

As for Captain America: Brave New World, it earned $2.1 million on Friday and now sits at $170.1 million. Projections are all over the place this early into the weekend, but it's likely to earn high single figures (we're hearing somewhere around $8.5 million).

By Monday, it will top 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger, which grossed $176.7 million in the U.S. However, that's not the best comparison to make. Yes, they're both origin stories for the Captain America character, but they've also been released at very different times for the MCU.

When all is said and done, Captain America: Brave New World will probably conclude its domestic run at around $200 million. It currently sits at $194.2 million overseas for a worldwide total of $370.8 million; worldwide, it'll finish somewhere in the low 400s.

Overseas, the movie didn't make much of an impact in China (thanks to Ne Zha 2) and was easily beaten in the UK by Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. Marvel Studios is likely to take a loss on Brave New World but should rebound with Thunderbolts* and The Fantastic Four: First Steps, two upcoming releases generating a ton of positive buzz.

What did you watch on the big screen this weekend?

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— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) March 8, 2025

In Captain America: Brave New World, after meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, played by Harrison Ford in his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut, Sam Wilson 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.

The movie stars Anthony Mackie, Danny Ramirez, Shira Haas, Xosha Roquemore, Carl Lumbly, with Giancarlo Esposito, Liv Tyler, Tim Blake Nelson, and Harrison Ford. The movie is directed by Julius Onah and produced by Kevin Feige and Nate Moore. Louis D’Esposito and Charles Newirth serve as executive producers.

"Flawed but functional, Captain America: Brave New World's many problems are largely forgotten any time Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford electrify the screen," we said in our review. "And when Red Hulk shows up, the movie reaches new heights of awesome."

Captain America: Brave New World is now playing in theaters.

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Superheromoviefan - 3/9/2025, 8:16 AM

welp

Feralwookiee - 3/9/2025, 8:23 AM

Wow! This movie has made almost as much as a movie released 14 years ago when ticket prices were much lower!
What a boffo win all around!

Apophis71 - 3/9/2025, 9:06 AM

@Feralwookiee - Nobody should be calling it a win, but for context last years total box office across all releases ($8,569,947,849) was almost identical to 2005 figures ($8,833,618,311) which itself was a drop from the prior three years dipping below $9B domestic for the first times since 2001.

Heck the total for 2024 was a drop from 2023 even though there was around 80 more films released.

Sure total number of tickets sold will be lower, hence why shouldn't be considered a win, but all films are struggling to get close to pre-pandemic levels and all theatres still having way lower total footfall than they did the last two decades or more. IF/WHEN total Box office is around the 2009 to 2019 levels then maybe comparing to prior MCU era BO totals (in both directions).

This film certainly fell short of where it needed to be and probably short of most expectations on all metrics but context remains key.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/

Simple fact remains that with cheap big screen HD TV's and streaming more and more are opting to watch films at home sadly regardless how good or bad the big screen releases are, if not considered a must see event...

Malatrova15 - 3/9/2025, 9:20 AM

@Feralwookiee - Howard the Duck was a smash hit after inflation adjustment.

MakeAmericaGrea - 3/9/2025, 9:31 AM

@Feralwookiee -

🤝

Feralwookiee - 3/9/2025, 9:35 AM

@Malatrova15 - Howard the Duck is a masterpiece regardless!

Malatrova15 - 3/9/2025, 9:48 AM

@Feralwookiee - i mean….it lacks Sabra, the warrior of Israel and main character of Bravo New World

Feralwookiee - 3/9/2025, 11:43 AM

@Malatrova15 - Uh, it has duck tits.

bobevanz - 3/9/2025, 12:05 PM

@Apophis71 - This is a loaded statistic because you're counting 2005 which is before streaming to today, which is all about streaming and yet it's the same number, so tell me how theaters are dying when streaming isn't winning? Covid tried to kill the theaters. It didn't happen. 2026 is shaping up to be the best BO year since 2019. It also requires studios to hold off on streaming with a 45 day window at least. Disney experimented in 2024 with this. Inside Out 2, DP3 and Moana cleared a billion. So as long as you make a good movie and keep in theaters as long as possible, there's profit. It's funny seeing doom and gloom posts like this with very little context. Your comment will agree like milk. These always do. Just like the people who thought beta max would be the end of Cinema. Same with vhs, laserdisc, dvd, HD-DVD,bluray, 4k, and covid. That's like saying they're going to close down stadiums because people would rather watch the game at home. Most people don't

bobevanz - 3/9/2025, 12:08 PM

The writers strike also delayed movies to fill the schedule as well. Silly me

Apophis71 - 3/9/2025, 12:43 PM

@bobevanz - Streaming is Winning, that is the whole point, big screen isn't dead yet but at best average film ticket sales has been stubbornly stuck at 12 to 16 million per movie for over twenty years dispite inflation.

Apophis71 - 3/9/2025, 12:48 PM

@bobevanz - I do think the 45day window was a BIG mistake, shift that to at least 90 will help and things could improve but I'm talking about the past not the future so it is less about doom for the future as that won't change the past. Only stating we aren't anywhere near 2019 numbers yet, not even near 2009 numbers yet but in time hopefully we will get there again :D

MakeAmericaGrea - 3/9/2025, 1:18 PM

@bobevanz -

Movie theaters are going away.

Malatrova15 - 3/9/2025, 2:24 PM

@Feralwookiee - Ducks Tits ITS the currency Giancarlo Espósito asked for his Oscar winning portrayal of scientist mercenary Sidewinder

marvel72 - 3/9/2025, 2:52 PM

@Feralwookiee - Some of the things that movie got away with,I guess because they were Duck's and not humans.

It did feature beastiality.

ObserverIO - 3/9/2025, 8:34 AM

yep. I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

CaptainAwkward - 3/9/2025, 8:43 AM

“Stand by for proof of death”. The film’s box office run is almost over.

PeterDarker121 - 3/9/2025, 1:09 PM

@CaptainAwkward - I love that line....I just wish it were in a better movie

MakeAmericaGrea - 3/9/2025, 8:45 AM

Craptain UnAmerican: New World Order still hadn't made a profit for Iger and Feige and all their cohorts.

Lefties, liberals, communists, comrades, socialists, antifa - the majority are rejecting your - what do you want to call it? Your things.

Your things are not normal or healthy or good.

DocSpock - 3/9/2025, 8:55 AM

@MakeAmericaGrea -

Hmmm... Again, I am conservative, but I think you are overdoing slapping the liberals.

I think there are 2 main reasons for the lousy box office on this movie. 1) Mackie just doesn't have blockbuster movie leading man skills. 2) The movie just isn't that good or compelling.

Fogs - 3/9/2025, 9:00 AM

@DocSpock - imo the problem is really with Mackie, unfortunately. He's no leading man material. Reminds me when they had Frank Grillo as the star in that film the dude couldn't die or something. It's just off.

Most people I know don't hate it, just aren't really interested in a non-chris evans caps film.

MakeAmericaGrea - 3/9/2025, 9:01 AM

@DocSpock -

There's at least a third reason.

I believe you know that's true, whether you'll say so or not.

MakeAmericaGrea - 3/9/2025, 9:04 AM

@Fogs -

Most of those people should be buying tickets to help with equity and stick it to conservatives, right?

Maybe deep down, or not so deep down, they also feel only Steve is Captain America, and they believe Sam shouldn't be called Captain America.

DocSpock - 3/9/2025, 9:14 AM

@Fogs - @MakeAmericaGrea -

I know that. My wife and I loved the 3 Evans CA movies. She is not the lifetime comic book nut that I am. She thought the movie wasn't very good and until the final fight scene was boring.

I think a majority of the general audience felt that way too. Seeing this in the theater a 2nd time or rewatching it on TV just isn't going to happen with most people.

ObserverIO - 3/9/2025, 9:16 AM

@MakeAmericaGrea - 3) Legacy characters aren't the real deal, they're watered down versions of them. People feel ripped off. How many people would go see a John Blake Batman movie or a Jon-El Superman movie? A Batman movie without Bruce Wayne is the same as a Captain America movie without Steve Rogers.

What's next an Iron Man movie without Iron Man?

MakeAmericaGrea - 3/9/2025, 9:18 AM

@DocSpock -

Maybe liberals are the minority of MCU fans.

Maybe everyone knows Disney is purposefully trying to annoy some people with their most woke movies, shows, and other things.

MakeAmericaGrea - 3/9/2025, 9:19 AM

@ObserverIO -

That's not it.

DocSpock - 3/9/2025, 9:21 AM

@MakeAmericaGrea -

I honestly don't know what 3rd reason you mean.

And believe me, I am not in any way defending this mediocre movie or the radical liberal idiots in Hollyweird who try soooo hard to influence public opinion with their nonsense.

MakeAmericaGrea - 3/9/2025, 9:23 AM

@DocSpock -

"Hmmm... Again, I am conservative, but I think you are overdoing slapping the liberals."

You and I mean through words, of course.

People are taking it easier on them than they deserve after all the suffering they have caused.

MakeAmericaGrea - 3/9/2025, 9:26 AM

@DocSpock -

Okay. Nice. 🙂

You either do or don't know the third reason.

Many others do know.

DocSpock - 3/9/2025, 9:28 AM

@MakeAmericaGrea -

Well, yeah. Radical Hollywood liberals are the VERY VOCAL minority trying ridiculously to convince normal people that they are the majority with their crazy pervy thought processes. Even the liberals know this is true; they just refuse to quit saying it.

DocSpock - 3/9/2025, 9:32 AM

@MakeAmericaGrea -

This is very true.

MakeAmericaGrea - 3/9/2025, 9:33 AM

@DocSpock -

🤝

DocSpock - 3/9/2025, 9:35 AM

@MakeAmericaGrea -

Now you are just screwing with me. Which I respect because I do that to people too.

Just tell me what it is. private message me if you want.

Malatrova15 - 3/9/2025, 9:47 AM

@DocSpock - DEi is the main reason the movie failed,,,,,Sabrá was amasije as a repesentative of Israel right to defend itself but the good thing is trans people is now barred from military service

DocSpock - 3/9/2025, 9:55 AM

@Malatrova15 -

That stuff certainly did hurt the movie. Those cowardly radical pu$$ies totally ruined Sabra.

Methos5000 - 3/9/2025, 10:57 AM

@MakeAmericaGrea - yeah ok, you're saying a movie that will make 200 million in the US is rejected because all the nerds that were hyped to see the same movie in theaters 5 times no longer go to the theaters in the same way after covid and with prices for everything so damn high? It was an average movie that did average business that was hurt internationally by all the Trump BS and you know it.

JoJo1982 - 3/9/2025, 11:07 AM

@MakeAmericaGrea - where were yall when those black panther movies were making money?

Oh yeah! Probably staying quiet lmao

LibraMatter - 3/9/2025, 1:10 PM

@MakeAmericaGrea - There are other reasons people don’t watch a movie in theaters. Could be they want to see another movie more. That’s kind of my situation, I really love horror movies, so I rather watch a horror movie that I had been waiting for than most movies. Sometimes it doesn’t have to do with politics or skin color, it’s prioritizing movies we look forward to the most. Movie tickets are expensive and how we spend our time is important.

MakeAmericaGrea - 3/9/2025, 1:21 PM

@JoJo1982 -

"where were yall when those black panther movies were making money?

Oh yeah! Probably staying quiet lmao"

Black Panther is Black Panther, aided by the hype of Infinity War and Endgame, like Captain Marvel wad.

Steve is Captain America

Sam is not Captain America.

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MICKEY 17 Dethrones CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD At U.S. Box Office As MCU Movie Nears THE FIRST AVENGER

Captain America: Brave New World's run at the top of the North American box office has ended, but despite being taken down by Mickey 17, the movie will soon surpass Captain America: The First Avenger.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD Passes ETERNALS' Final Domestic Box Office Total - Can It Reach $400M WW?

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD Stills Reveal First Official Look At Tim Blake Nelson As The Leader

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