There’s just over a month to go before Disney and Marvel Studios kick off the 2025 superhero movie season with the release of Captain America: Brave New World, and early box office forecasts are predicting that the blockbuster is expected to take flight with $100 million plus at the domestic box office when it opens across the four-day President’s Day weekend.
Directed by Julius Onah (The Cloverfield Paradox), Brave New World shakes up the Captain America sub-franchise with Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson taking centre stage for the first time, having assumed the Cap mantle in the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. The sequel will pit Mackie’s Cap against Harrison Ford’s now-President Thunderbolt Ross – and his new alter-ago, the Red Hulk.
According to Deadline, tracking service Quorum is reporting that Brave New World is currently on course for a North American opening haul of between $86 to $95 million across the Friday to Sunday period, passing $100 million once the Monday holiday is incorporated.
Marvel Studios’ previous release Deadpool & Wolverine shattered R-rated records last year with a $211.4 million domestic opening on its way to $1.338 billion worldwide, and while those kinds of numbers are clearly beyond Brave New World, current tracking puts it just behind Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. That opened across the same weekend in 2023 with $120.3 million from four days ($106.1 million from Friday-Sunday) and went on to amass just $476.1 million worldwide, falling short of a reported $600 million break-even point. Whether the same fate shall befall Brave New World, we shall soon see…
Marvel Studios’ Captain America: Brave New World follows Sam Wilson, who after meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.
The film is directed by Julius Onah and produced by Kevin Feige and Nate Moore from a script by Malcolm Spellman, Dalan Musson, and Matthew Orton. The film stars Anthony Mackie, Danny Ramirez, Shira Haas, Xosha Roquemore, Carl Lumbly, with Giancarlo Esposito, Liv Tyler, Tim Blake Nelson, and Harrison Ford.
Captain America: Brave New World opens in theaters on February 14th, 2025.
