NEW YORK – Captain America continued to flex its Marvel muscle at the global box office, as The Winter Soldier took in $41.4 million domestically and $60.6 million overseas.
The strong second-week performance for the release in North America was enough to narrowly edge Rio 2 in a springtime battle of sequels. The animated Amazon jungle tale Rio 2 debuted with $39 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, almost exactly the opening weekend total of the 2011 Oscar-nominated original.
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But Captain America has grown considerably in stature since its 2011 original, The First Avenger. With a global cumulative total of nearly $477 million, The Winter Soldier has (in two weeks domestically, three weeks internationally) easily surpassed the $370 million total of The First Avenger.
Two other new releases opened in a distant third and fourth place.
The low-budget supernatural horror film Oculus took in $12 million.
The football drama Draft Day, starring Kevin Costner and directed by Canada’s Ivan Reitman, debuted weakly with $9.8 million. Made with the co-operation of the National Football League, the release is the second movie this year, along with the thriller 3 Days to Kill, to attempt to restore the 59-year-old Costner to leading man status.
Just holding in the top five was the teen sci-fi franchise-starter Divergent, which added $7.5 million in its fourth week to bring its cumulative total to $124.9 million. Lionsgate announced Friday that the third installment in the series (a sequel for 2015 is already in the works) will be split into two releases. The final book in Veronica Roth’s young-adult trilogy, Allegiant, will be made into two installments, one to open in March 2016, the other in March 2017.
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