There’s a common beat in Captain America films. It’s one where a bruised and bloodied Cap repeatedly holds his ground and stands back up, fists raised, no matter the odds. He looks at his attackers, and from a split lip, he utters his famous line:
“I can do this all day.”
Watching Captain America: Brave New World keep the box-office title for the third straight week, despite plummeting weekend-over-weekend earnings, is sort of like that. Brave New World is down nearly 47% from last week (a week which had already dropped 68% from its premiere). It raked in $15 million, bringing its domestic earnings to $164 million total—a number that makes up nearly half of its worldwide $342 million. But like a good superhero story, it seems the film hasn’t quite taken its last breath.
And speaking of Last Breath, that’s the new film that hit Cap the hardest. The Woody Harrelson flick dove deep into the fray and earned a respectable second place finish with $7.8 million.
Horror comedy The Monkey sunk a little deeper than Last Breath, falling from last weekend’s second-place finish to secure third with $6.3 million.
If it’s any solace to the simian, it managed to beat out man’s best friend, since Dog Man remained at a static fourth place with $4.2 million. And with all these animals, it’s only fitting that Mufasa: The Lion King revived its kingdom by rounding out the top five—a jump from last weekend’s eighth-place finish. It brought in $1.9 million for its fifth weekend—adding to the $702 million in its worldwide treasury.
Farther down, newcomer Mobile Suit Gundam: GQuuuuuuX: Beginning earned a tough 10th place with a mere $916,000—coincidentally, the number of digits in that profit match the number of ‘u’s in the film’s title. Riff Raff, landing in 12th place with $901,000, couldn’t even make enough of a racket to surpass A Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan biopic from December 2024, which took 11th place with $904,000.
Finally, My Dead Friend Zoe, a military-focused film dealing with difficult topics like PTSD and suicide, took 14th place with $755,000.
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