--- title: Captain America: The Winter Soldier Wins Box Office With $96.2 Million description: Marvel's latest movie, starring Chris Evans as the eponymous hero alongside heavy-duty stars like Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Redford, clocked in at $96.2 million on its opening weekend, the highest-ever for April canonical: https://time.com/50970/captain-america-the-winter-soldier-box-office/ author: Richard Corliss article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-06T20:32:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T07:09:30.219Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Captain America: The Winter Soldier Wins Box Office With $96.2 Million og:description: Marvel's latest movie, starring Chris Evans as the eponymous hero alongside heavy-duty stars like Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. 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Steve Rogers, the pure-hearted war hero of 1940s comic books, proved his staying power this weekend, as Marvel Studios’ _Captain America: The Winter Soldier_ liberated the multiplexes of North America with a patriotic $96.2 million, according to preliminary studio estimates. The Captain already has his bars; now he should get his stars. As much a political thriller as a special-effects fantasy, _The Winter Soldier_ stars Chris Evans (who previously served two tours playing Johnny Storm the Human Torch in Marvel’s _Fantastic Four_ movies) and fellow Avengers Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, plus Robert Redford in his first-ever action adventure. In addition to its domestic bonanza, _CA:TWS_ did gung-ho business abroad. Since opening 12 days ago, the picture has earned $207.1 million in foreign markets, including $39.2 million from China. The early worldwide total stands at $303.3 million. **(READ: Corliss’s** [**review of** **_Captain America: The Winter Soldier_**](http://time.com/46760/captain-america-the-winter-soldier-movie-review/)**)** Budgeted at $170 million, this latest installment in Marvel’s series of _Avengers_ movies registered the strongest weekend opening for any film released in April, topping the $86.2-million mark set three years ago by [another potent franchise episode, _Fast Five_](http://entertainment.time.com/2011/04/28/fast-five-movie-review/). Buoyed by the critics’ enthusiasm and a sterling “A” rating from the CinemaScore survey of first-nighters, _CA:TWS_ managed to corral two demographics that Hollywood has recently found elusive: males (64% of early attendees) and young adults (69% were between 18 and 49). It also earned about 40% of its take from 3-D and IMAX engagements, which just meant more money for Marvel. **(READ:** [**How Women and Kids Replaced Young Males at the Box Office**](http://time.com/49440/box-office-reports/)**)** In 2002, Marvel effectively turned the first weekend in May into the official launch time for Hollywood’s rich summer season, when [the original _Spider-Man_](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1002376-1,00.html) became the first movie to open to more than $100 million domestic. With _The Winter Soldier_, the Disney-owned studio has stretched summer to early spring. In this, the cruelest month, _The Winter Soldier_ achieved the top domestic debut for a non-May Marvel movie. The previous highest gross for the first week of April was [the 2009 _Fast and Furious_](http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1889382,00.html) — fourth in that series — with $71 million. Pumped up by its semi-sequel status to the global smash _The Avengers_, the new movie easily exceeded the $65.1-million opening for its 2011 predecessor _Captain America: The First Avenger_, which ultimately accumulated a worldwide total of $370.6 million. _CA:TWS_ is more than three-quarters of the way to reaching that mark; it has already earned more abroad than the first movie’s $193.9 million. **(READ: Corliss’s** [**review of** **_Captain America: The First Avenger_**](http://entertainment.time.com/2011/07/22/captain-america-review/)**)** Note that the subtitle of the first _Captain America_ movie was a teaser commercial for the all-star _The Avengers_ due the following spring. Marvel created stand-alone films for various Avengers heroes (the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor), then forged them into a combative super-team in _The Avengers_, the 2012 spectacle that grossed more than $1.5 billion worldwide. Since then, [the third _Iron Man_ movie](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/04/30/iron-man-three-tony-stark-saves-the-world-gets-a-heart/) and [the second _Thor_](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/11/06/thor-the-dark-world-a-god-awful-villain-steals-the-thunder/) have benefited from being presented as extensions to the core blockbuster — a new chapter in a grand saga. _CA:TWS_ also got the _Avengers_ bump. **(SEE:** [**First photos from the next** **_Avengers_** **movie,** **_Age of Ultron_**](http://time.com/36318/avengers-age-ultron-marvel/)**)** Let’s say this about Kevin Feige and his cohorts at the Marvel movie operation: they are _really_ smart. Their expertise in making and marketing their synergistic stories has given them 12 of the 42 pictures ever to tally an opening weekend of $85 million or more. For those keeping score: _The Avengers_, $207.4m, May 2012; _Iron Man Three_, $174.1m, May 2013; _Spider-Man 3_, $151.1m, May 2007; _Iron Man 2_, $128.1m, May 2010; _Spider-Man_, $114m.8m, May 2002; _X-Men: The Last Stand_, $102.8m, May 2006; _Iron Man_, $98.6m, May 2008; _Captain America: The Winter Soldier_, $96.2m, Apr. 2014; _Spider-Man 2_, $88.2m, May 2004; _Thor: The Dark World_, $85.7m, Nov. 2013; _X2: X-Men United_, $85.6m, May 2003; and _X-Men Origins: Wolverine_, $85.1m, May 2009. **(READ:** [**Marvel’s Super-Hero-Sized Plan to Dominate Movies**](http://time.com/49703/captain-america-marvel-plan-2028/)**)** With _Captain America_ resplendent, most other movies took a dive. _Noah_ dropped a waterfall-steep 61% from last weekend, to $17 million. [Darren Aronofsky’s “least biblical biblical movie”](http://time.com/38365/noah-movie-darren-aronofsky-russell-crowe/) is suffering at the domestic box office from its very low “C” CinemaScore—translation: people didn’t like it, and are telling other people—though it is doing well abroad, earning 60% of its $178.5-million worldwide revenue overseas. [_Divergent_](http://time.com/31853/review-divergent-is-deja-vu-of-post-apocalyptic-y-a-fiction-thrillers/), which hopes to be the next _Twilight_ or _Hunger Games_ Girl Power franchise, reached $114 million in its third weekend, with most foreign markets still to open. [_Mr. Peabody & Sherman_](http://time.com/16534/review-mr-peabody-and-sherman-has-muttzpah/) passed $100 million but dropped to seventh place, making this the first weekend since last Sep. 20-22 with no animated feature among the top five finishers. **(SEE:** [**Behind the Scenes of** **_Divergent_** **with Shailene Woodley**](http://time.com/12694/divergent-shailene-woodley-behind-the-scenes-interview-video/)**)** Two independent movies of widely disparate intent took the fourth and fifth slots. The Christian-themed _God’s Not Dead_, dramatizing a debate on the Almighty’s existence, kept surging in its third week, earning $7.7 million in 1,758 theaters, for a $32.5-million total. And Wes Anderson’s elegantly retro comedy _The Grand Budapest Hotel_ amassed $6.3 million at 1,263 venues, bringing its five-week cache to $33.4 million. The Anderson film has been stoked by rhapsodic reviews, _God’s Not Dead_ by a canny campaign aimed at fundamentalists, and both pictures by hot word-of-mouth from their (almost mutually exclusive) constituents. That’s the recipe for a hard-won indie hit. **(READ: Corliss’s rave for** **_The Grand Budapest Hotel_** **)** For moviegoers who can’t get enough of _The Winter Soldier’_s Johansson, _Under the Skin_ offered a very different study in Scarlett. Ostensibly a sci-fi horror thriller about an extraterrestrial who takes sultry human form to kill male Earthlings, Jonathan Glazer’s murky art film goes heavy on the atmosphere, light on genre pay-offs. But it shows plenty of its star’s body, and that publicity, plus very generous reviews, helped _Under the Skin_ to an impressive start: $140,000 at four theaters. Curiosity should keeps the customers coming, to see Marvel’s Black Widow as an alien widow-maker. **(READ:** [**Will Scarlett Johansson Get Under Your Skin?**](http://www.samachar.com/REVIEW-Scarlett-Johansson-Is-an-Alien-Seductress-in-Under-the-Skin-oeduM1hdbbg.html)**)** Here are the Sunday estimates of this weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by [Box Office Mojo](http://www.boxofficemojo.com/): 1\. _Captain America: The Winter Soldier_, $96.2 million, first weekend 2\. _Noah_, $17 million; $72.3 million, second week 3\. _Divergent_, $13 million; $114 million, third week 4\. _God’s Not Dead_, $7.7 million; $32.5 million, third week 5\. _The Grand Budapest Hotel_, $6.3 million; $33.4 million, fifth week 6\. _Muppets Most Wanted_, $6.3 million; $42.1 million, third week 7\. _Mr. Peabody & Sherman_, $5.3 million; $102.2 million, fifth week 8\. _Sabotage_, $1.9 million; $8.8 million, second week 9\. _Need for Speed_, $1.8 million; $40.8 million, fourth week 10\. _Non-Stop_, $1.8 million; $88.1 million, sixth week Captain America: The Winter Soldier Wins Box Office With $96.2 Million ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/50970/captain-america-the-winter-soldier-box-office/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/50970/captain-america-the-winter-soldier-box-office/"},"headline":"Captain America: The Winter Soldier Is a Spring Sensation","datePublished":"2014-04-06T20:32:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:09:30.219Z","description":"Marvel's latest movie, starring Chris Evans as the eponymous hero alongside heavy-duty stars like Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. 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