'Captain America: Brave New World' collapses in the second weekend in cinemas

After a good start of $ 100 million dollars during the president's day holiday in the United States, Captain America: Brave New Worldthe most recent delivery of Phase 5 of the MCU of Marvel Studios, He finished his second weekend Cinema exhibition registering an unfortunate 68% drop.

His box office of the second weekend was $ 28.3 million in $ 4,105 of the USA

It should be noted that Brave New World – that he remained in the first place of national box office – he is not facing the competition of another high profile project.

The Word of the Superheroes adventure starring Anthony Mackieaccumulates $ 141 million (national) and $ 289.4 million in Box Office Global. Its production cost was exceeding $ 180 million, without marketing costs.

Is this the new normality in the genre of superheroes?

These falls in the cinemas of the MCU deliveries have been seen above. While this was called something weird a few years ago where the successes were common, after Avengers: Endgame (2019) ceased to be a cinematographic universe “bulletproof.”

The pronounced fall of Brave New World he comes loaded with negative criticismwith an approval index of 49% criticism in Rotten Tomatoes (and 80% of the audience), in addition to a B- A Cinemascorethe worst rating for an MCU movie.

68% collapse is similar – but not the worst – to the one who had Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023), the third installment of Ant-Manwhich fell by 70% in its second weekend, after a premiere of $ 106 million (in National Office Box), to the one of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (67%) y Thor: Love and Thunder (67%). These last two had a higher launch, of $ 187 million pesos and $ 144 million pesos respectively, in the year 2022, when the cinemas were recovering from the mass closure by the pandemic.

And not only the general cinema fan is showing apathy. Just yesterday, the renowned and acclaimed Japanese video game designer Hideo Kojima (Death Stranding, Metal Gear), shared with his followers in social networks his confusion after seeing the most recent delivery of the Captain Americasaying:

“VI 'Captain America: Brave New World' in IMAX. I vaguely remember Sam receiving the shield in 'Endgame', but when did he officially become the captain? Will it be because I have not seen 'Falcon and the Winter Soldier'? And what is that avengers are reorganizing? I am also confusing it with the trailer of 'Thunderbolts' ”.

From a commercial point of view, it would not be only a problem for Marvel and Disney, but for cinemas. The next high profile project in the premiere calendar is the remake live-action of Snow White (March 21), which has not been able to generate positive noise for its launch on a large screen. Seeing it on the good side, this could be a window of opportunity for the audience to be interested in going to see the most recent proposal of the Captain America To the cinema.

With box office mockery.

In addition to Captain America: A New WorldPhase 5 of the MCU will have two other releases in cinema this year: Thunderbolts in May, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps In July.

Julius Onah (Cloverfield: Paradox, Luce) direct the co -written script next to Peter Glanz (The Longest Week), y Matthew Orton (Moon Knight).

Kevin Feige and Nate Moore are the producers, with Louis d'Esito and Charles Newirth as executive producers.