CAPTAIN MARVEL Has Passed $760 Million Worldwide After Just Twelve Days In Theaters

CAPTAIN MARVEL Has Passed $760 Million Worldwide After Just Twelve Days In Theaters

Brie Larson's Captain Marvel has delivered a well-deserved photon blast to trolls everywhere after earning a colossal $760 million at the worldwide box office in just twelve days of release. Check it out!

By JoshWilding - Mar 17, 2019 09:03 AM EST
Filed Under: Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel continues to defy those that trolled it on social media and Rotten Tomatoes by dominating the competition at the global box office. After scoring the second best second weekend in March ever, the Marvel Studios movie has sailed past $760 million worldwide and will cross the $800 million mark in a matter of days. 

Analysts believe that it will indeed hit $1 billion, but that could now take at least another week or two as the Brie Larson-led release finally debuted in Japan on Friday (it opened in every other market during its first weekend of release). 


This is an incredible feat and proof that moviegoers a) will go and see female-led superhero movies and b) that Marvel Studios made the right choice by deciding that Carol Danvers will be the new face of the Marvel Cinematic Universe after Iron Man. The character will obviously return as soon as next month in Avengers: Endgame and was featured in the latest trailer.

How many times have you guys seen Captain Marvel? Let us know in the comments section below!

For a spoiler breakdown from the movie's directors, hit the "View List" button.

The Russo Brothers Directed The Mid-Credits Scene



This probably won't come as too much of a shock but it was actually Avengers: Infinity War directors Joe and Anthony Russo who directed that mid-credits scene featuring Carol Danvers' return to Earth and first meeting with The Avengers. 

"It’s really a direct lead-in to their movie," says Boden. "They came up with the concept for it, and we said, ‘That sounds awesome.’" What we don't know is whether or not a longer version of the scene will play out during Avengers: Endgame similar to that Captain America: Civil War stinger at the end of Ant-Man back in 2015. 
 

That Big Twist With The Skrulls



The big twist in Captain Marvel comes when we learn that the Skrulls are actually sympathetic characters and not the villains we're used to seeing in the comic books. 

"This was so much a movie about Carol's journey towards finding her own humanity," says Boden. "Part of that is also seeing the humanity in other people, even people who you don't expect to. The idea of having Carol […] realising that she's been wrong and having to face that was really powerful for us."

"And if we could make an audience member also have that same experience of assuming that they were one thing and then having their expectations subverted, we thought that would be just all the more powerful,"
she concludes. 
 

A Linear Approach To Captain Marvel's Origin Story



Carol Danvers' origin story plays out in a very unexpected fashion but earlier versions of the movie had a far more linear structure. As a result, the action would have kicked off with the hero on Earth and we would have explored her friendship with Maria Rambeau.

"The original opening to the script was a simulated combat situation in her fighter jets," Fleck reveals. "There was a whole Top Gun-style sequence that we were even planning to shoot for a while. Even though it was an awesome introduction to Carol and Maria Rambeau – and I think it would have been fun for the audience to meet them on Earth as humans – the problem with that is the audience would be so far ahead of the story."

The movie would have then jumped forward in time but Fleck argues that what we ended up getting was a better approach to the story. "But you would have already known, and viscerally felt, her as a human. When she is uncovering her past and feeling a bit freaked out by it, I think it's much more effective."
 

Goose Was Always Going To Be In The Movie



Goose is a breakout character in Captain Marvel but the Flerken wasn't a last-minute addition to proceedings; instead, the alien was part of proceedings from the very beginning. 

"I mean, a cat, who's a Flerken, who has pocket dimensions?" says Fleck. "There was no way that wasn't going to end up in this movie!" Goose was always intended to be the reason Nick Fury lost his eye: "Something about that belly being rubbed, Goose did not appreciate."
 

An Alternate After-Credits Scene



Captain Marvel's after-credits scene features Goose throwing up the Tesseract on Nick Fury's desk but Marvel Studios originally had a much different idea for where to take things. 

"There was an idea on the table about having Jude Law […] emerge from his pod on Sakaar," Fleck explains, referring to the setting of Thor: Ragnarok, "and then have him look around and see the Devil's Anus behind him and wonder, 'Where the hell am I?'"

That would have been fun to see but also closed the door on Yon-Rogg being able to return.
 

Why Talos Has An Australian Accent



Ben Mendohlson plays both S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Keller and Talos but the latter has the actor's natural Australian accent. So, why did Marvel Studios decide to take things down that route?

"Everybody is just facile with their natural accent, they can show more emotion," explains Boden. "I think it was important for him to kind of be as wild as Ben Mendelsohn wants to be."

That certainly appears to have paid off as the actor has been praised for his performance.
 

Captain Marvel's Name



Just like Wanda Maximoff has never been called "Scarlet Witch" and Clint Barton has never been directly referred to as "Hawkeye," Carol Danvers isn't known as "Captain Marvel" in the movie.

However, the seeds are planted throughout both by Nick Fury saying "Marvel" has a better ring to it than "Mar-Vell" and the fact he discovers that she was a Captain in the movie's final scene. "You see that she was ‘Captain Carol Danvers’ when [Fury] has her file at the very end, so Captain is there if you want it," Boden explains.
 

The Avenger Initiative



Captain Marvel wraps up with Fury renaming his "Protector Initiative" after learning that Carol Danvers' call sign in the Air Force was "Avenger." As you might expect, that was a very deliberate decision.

"Kevin Feige and the Marvel team said, 'We want her to be inspiring Nick Fury to create the Avengers by the end of this movie,’" says Fleck before revealing that there was once an alternate take on the scene. "We did shoot him actually writing the Avengers Initiative on the screen, and it just felt like we didn't need to see it."
 

The Tesseract



During the course of this movie, we learn that Carol Danvers receives her powers courtesy of the Tesseract, a.k.a.the Space Stone. 

Rather than creating a new energy source, the filmmakers chose to bring back a familiar MacGuffin and Boden has explained that it's been in the hands of the American government ever since the events of Captain America: The First Avenger. "Our thought was that they had gotten this thing, but they didn't know anything about it.

"They just kind of had it lying around somewhere at S.H.I.E.L.D., and [Mar-Vell] was able to use it to create her lightspeed engine at Pegasus. Only her as an alien would even know it had all this power, and figure out how to harness it."

 

Annette Bening Wasn't Always Playing The Supreme Intelligence



Annette Bening ends up playing both Mar-Vell/Dr. Wendy Lawson and the Supreme Intelligence in Captain Marvel but that wasn't always the plan. "We initially had a separate figure being the Supreme Intelligence," Boden confirms. "To have it be connected to her origin and her hero felt like an obvious idea that should have been in there from the very beginning. All of a sudden I woke up from a nap, and I was like 'What the hell are we doing? Why are these two separate people?’"

What do you guys think about these Captain Marvel reveals? Share your thoughts down below.

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WakandaTech
WakandaTech - 3/17/2019, 9:55 AM
WOW

So it seems like 1 Billion is more Likely

ImmovableForce
ImmovableForce - 3/17/2019, 10:14 AM
@WakandaTech - Captain Marvel has a nice ring, right? And people might just be going to see it based on that clip in the gif above.. It's something to go and see. Also, it had the advantage of the tease at the end of Infinity War. So, name recognition..
The Last Jedi and Batman v Superman did well based on just that, until word of mouth caught up. Word of mouth.. I still can't post my review on certain sites, and it turns out I'm not the only one.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 3/17/2019, 9:57 AM










superbigguy32
superbigguy32 - 3/17/2019, 9:58 AM
Good for the movie, but I hope her character is better in Endgame. And for Captain Marvel 2 the story/movie/acting is 100 times better.
WakandanQueen
WakandanQueen - 3/17/2019, 10:07 AM
@superbigguy32 - Acting? Goose's actor gave an Oscar worthy performance.
2050
2050 - 3/17/2019, 9:58 AM
Lower drop than I thought. Good for the CM team and the longevity of the MCU.
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 3/17/2019, 10:00 AM
But how can this be? I was assured the second weekend drop would be massive.
WakandanQueen
WakandanQueen - 3/17/2019, 10:00 AM
Briellion.
MCUKnight11
MCUKnight11 - 3/17/2019, 10:04 AM
@WakandanQueen - Ah! Puppies! My heart! 😭
WakandanQueen
WakandanQueen - 3/17/2019, 10:11 AM
@MCUKnight11 - I'm going to make it explode.
Spidey91
Spidey91 - 3/17/2019, 10:13 AM
@WakandanQueen - yeah, I'm gonna need context and a link, thank you.
MCUKnight11
MCUKnight11 - 3/17/2019, 10:13 AM
@WakandanQueen - Thanks.
WakandanQueen
WakandanQueen - 3/17/2019, 10:16 AM
@Spidey91 -
Spidey91
Spidey91 - 3/17/2019, 10:34 AM
@WakandanQueen - thank you.
ps: the Skrull mental probing is now officially "The Mindf*ck Sequence" for me.
ps2: I died and now it's my ghost the one tipying this.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 3/17/2019, 10:36 AM
@WakandanQueen - Brie Larson... playing with puppies?

HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 3/17/2019, 10:41 AM
@WakandanQueen - ;-P

OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 3/17/2019, 10:45 AM
@WakandanQueen - Protect this woman at all cost
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 3/17/2019, 11:05 AM
I was watching the video, thinking to myself "how could anyone dislike this woman"? Talking about the pressure to be a public face under constant scrutiny. And how obviously more comfortable she is playing with a puppy than talking to a stranger. (As someone with social anxiety, it's incredibly relatable to me and I would imagine a lot of other comicy-dorky-guys out there.)

And then she casually mentions her menstruation, and I'm like... "Oh yeah..."
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 3/17/2019, 11:45 AM
@Spock0Clock - do you think Brie is just socially awkward and misunderstood?
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