‘Captain America: Brave New World’ meekly wins the weekend

Hello! Welcome to The Box Office Report for the weekend of Feb. 21-23, 2025.

1. Captain America: Brave New World

Weekend gross: $28.2M
Total domestic gross: $141.2M
Last weekend: 1st
Percent drop: 68

Through two weekends, things aren’t looking all that great for Captain America: Brave New World. Sure, the latest MCU film won both those weekends, but the film isn’t making waves when it comes to the megafranchise’s box office records.

Brave New World’s second weekend was down 68 percent from its debut, a number that ranks towards the bottom for the MCU. Not as bad as Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (a 70 percent second-weekend drop) and The Marvels (a ridiculous 78 percent second-weekend drop), but still not what you want to see from the Captain America corner of the MCU.

Through two weekends, Brave New World’s $141.2 domestic haul ranks third for Captain America movies, ahead of only Captain America: The First Avenger ($117.4 million) while trailing Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($158.9 million) and Captain America: Civil War ($296 million).

2. The Monkey

Weekend gross: $14.2M
Total domestic gross: $14.2M
Last weekend: New release
Percent drop: NA

Big weekend for The Monkey. The Stephen King adaption notched the second biggest opening weekend for director Oz Perkins. (His current high remains the $22.4 million that Longlegs opened with, but I remain certain that moviegoers were really excited to see Nicolas Cage voice that CGI spider. I also remain certain that I have no idea what Longlegs was about.)

I’m sure everyone who adapts King’s work would love to hit the heights of the two It movies (a $123.4 million opening weekend for It and a $91.1 million opening weekend for It: Chapter Two), but coming in second place to an MCU film in February isn’t bad.