{"id":4423,"date":"2016-05-09T09:29:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T13:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2016-05-09T09:30:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T13:30:17","slug":"captain-americacivil-war-launches-to-a-mighty-181-8m-globally-678-4m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/2016\/05\/captain-americacivil-war-launches-to-a-mighty-181-8m-globally-678-4m\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain America:Civil War Launches To A Mighty  $181.8M, Globally $678.4M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4424\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/captainamerica-1024x524.jpg\" alt=\"captainamerica\" width=\"1024\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/captainamerica-1024x524.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/captainamerica-150x77.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/captainamerica-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/captainamerica-768x393.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/captainamerica.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kicking off the summer box office in\u00a0super-heroic\u00a0style<b> Captain America: Civil War<\/b>\u00a0scorched the weekend box office, bringing in $181.8 million , the\u00a0fifth largest opening weekend of all-time.\u00a0In terms of opening-weekend rankings,\u00a0<em>Civil War<\/em>\u00a0shot past\u00a0<em>Iron Man 3<\/em>($174 million) to come in at No. 5 behind\u00a0<em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em>($248 million),\u00a0<em>Jurassic World<\/em>\u00a0($208.8 million),\u00a0<em>The Avengers<\/em>\u00a0($207.4 million) and\u00a0<em>Avengers: Age of Ultron<\/em>\u00a0($191.3 million), not accounting for inflation. Put another way, <strong>Disney claims four of the five top openings (<em>Jurassic World<\/em>\u00a0was released by Universal).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<b>Captain America<\/b>\u00a0franchise continues to show the greatest film-over-film growth as\u00a0<b>Civil War<\/b>&#8216;s opening is a 91.3% increase over the opening for\u00a0<b>Captain America: The Winter Soldier<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Combined with its international release a week earlier,\u00a0<em>Civil War\u00a0<\/em>has now earned $678.4 million global and\u00a0has already surpassed the lifetime international cumes of\u00a0<b>Captain America<\/b>\u00a0($194M),\u00a0<b>Iron Man<\/b>($267M),\u00a0<b>Thor<\/b>\u00a0($268M),\u00a0<b>Iron Man 2<\/b>\u00a0($312M),\u00a0<b>Ant-Man<\/b>\u00a0($339M),\u00a0<b>Thor: The Dark World<\/b>\u00a0($438M),\u00a0<b>Guardians of the Galaxy<\/b>\u00a0($440M) and\u00a0<b>Captain America: The Winter Soldier<\/b>\u00a0($455M).<\/p>\n<p>The massive debut contributed to Disney bringing in over $200 million this weekend as the studio became the fastest to cross the $1 billion mark in domestic earnings in just 128 days, decimating the 165 day record set by Universal just last year.\u00a0On top of that, Disney has also become the fastest studio to reach $2 billion internationally and $3 billion globally, surpassing the previous industry records set last year in June.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kicking off the summer box office in\u00a0super-heroic\u00a0style Captain America: Civil War\u00a0scorched the weekend box office, bringing in $181.8 million , the\u00a0fifth largest opening weekend of all-time.\u00a0In terms of opening-weekend rankings,\u00a0Civil War\u00a0shot past\u00a0Iron Man 3($174 million) to come in at No. 5 behind\u00a0Star Wars: The Force Awakens($248 million),\u00a0Jurassic World\u00a0($208.8 million),\u00a0The Avengers\u00a0($207.4 million) and\u00a0Avengers: Age of Ultron\u00a0($191.3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-articles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4426,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions\/4426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}