{"id":41990,"date":"2016-04-18T14:29:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T21:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/?p=41990"},"modified":"2019-03-06T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T19:43:11","slug":"captain-america-civil-war-box-office-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/captain-america-civil-war-box-office-prediction\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain America: Civil War Tracking for Massive $175 Million Opening Weekend Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?searchfield=captain%20america%3A%20Civil%20war&amp;utm_source=ee-blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Captain America: Civil War<\/a>,<\/strong><\/em> Marvel&#8217;s next big film, opens in less than a month and already boasts a 94% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes out of 18 reviews.<\/p>\n<p>With those initial numbers, it should come as no surprise that it&#8217;s currently tracking for a massive domestic box office opening weekend. In fact, strategists are predicting it will make at least $175 million in North America alone. Others are saying it could even approach $200 million.<\/p>\n<p>This would put it in the running for top five best opening weekends of all time, behind <em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em> ($248 million), <em>Jurassic World<\/em> ($208.8 million), <em>The Avengers<\/em> ($207.4 million) and <em>Avengers: Age of Ultro<\/em>n ($191.3 million).<\/p>\n<p>The Mouse House certainly isn&#8217;t doing too bad for itself.<\/p>\n<p>This new Marvel movie pits Captain America (Chris Evans) against Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.) as they find themselves at odds over a government mandate regarding superheroes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Captain America: Civil War<\/em> stars Chris Evans, Sebastian Stan, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey. Jr, Anthony Mackie, Jeremy Renner, Daniel Br\u00fchl, Chadwick Boseman, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Emily VanCamp, Martin Freeman, and Don Cheadle, is set to hit theaters on May 6, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Will you be seeing this movie opening weekend? Do you think it will make more than $175 million? Let us know below!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/captain-america-civil-war-tracking-884792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain America: Civil War, Marvel&#8217;s next big film, opens in less than a month and already boasts a 94% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes out of 18 reviews. With those initial numbers, it should come as no surprise that it&#8217;s currently tracking for a massive domestic box office opening weekend. In fact, strategists are predicting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,3795,108,388,558],"tags":[1844,3145,112,122,1215,195],"yst_prominent_words":[31748,8128,21220,15789,8020,8116,6232,15788,15785,6521,12845,19949,12840,13263,5885,8833,19679,11786,6692,7921],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41990"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64308,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41990\/revisions\/64308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41990"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}