Having already surpassedThe Marvels,Captain America: Brave New Worldoutperforms theMCU’s second-biggest box office bomb.Captain America: Brave New World’s $180 million budgetmade Sam Wilson’s first Captain America movie a much less risky bet than previous Marvel offerings likeAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,Thor: Love and Thunder, andEternals.Captain America: Brave New World’s reviews have earned the Phase 5 movie lower ratings than all three previous installments in Steve Rogers’Captain Americatrilogy, but that hasn’t kept it from performing quite well at the box office, at least compared to other releases in the MCU’s Phases 4 and 5.
As of March 4th, 2025,Captain America: Brave New Worldhas reached $341.9 million worldwide, surpassingThe Incredible Hulk’s $264.7 million(viaBox Office Mojo).Captain America: Brave New WorldbeatThe Incredible Hulkon all counts, with higher domestic and international openings, and a higher domestic and international total gross.Captain America: Brave New Worldis currently on track to surpassCaptain America: The First Avenger’s $370.5 million worldwide gross very soon.
What Captain America: Brave New World’s Week 2 Box Office Update Means
Captain America: Brave New World Likely Won’t Land In The MCU’s Top 10 Highest-Grossing Movies, But It Certainly Won’t Be A Flop
Apart from passingThe MarvelsandThe Incredible Hulk,Captain America: Brave New World’s $341.9 million gross suggests the MCU’s fourthCaptain Americamovie is close to breaking even. This alone putsCaptain America: Brave New Worldahead of movies with higher budgets at the two-week mark. At this rate,Captain America: Brave New Worldcan keep climbing the MCU’s rankings and surpassCaptain America: The First Avenger’s $370.5 million,Black Widow’s $379.7 million,Eternals' $401.7 million,Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings' $432.2 million, andAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’s $463.6 million.
An MCU Leak That Nailed 99% Of Captain America: Brave New World’s Plot Claimed Another Hulk Cameo Was Supposed To Happen
An alleged Captain America: Brave New World plot leak shared four months before the movie’s release suggests the movie almost introduced a new Hulk.
The rankings betweenAnt-Man’s $518.8 million (the closest MCU movie to $500 million) andCaptain Marvel’s $1.129 billion (the closest MCU movie to $1 billion) are the longest stretch, with thirteen MCU movies in between. Looking at the bigger picture,Captain America: Brave New Worldperformed similarly toThe Incredible HulkandEternals— the two MCU films its plot revisited. But whileCaptain America: Brave New Worldlikely won’t get too far in the $500 million to $1 billion box office range, leaving behindThe Incredible HulkandEternalsis already a feat.
Our Take On Captain America: Brave New World’s Week 2 Box Office Update
Captain America: Brave New World Is Slowly Distancing Itself From Failure Territory
Captain America: Brave New Worldhas many comparisons to deal with: the MCU’s three previousCaptain Americamovies, the rest of Phase 5, the rest of the Multiverse Saga,The Incredible Hulk, andEternals, for example. AlthoughCaptain America: Brave New Worldis far from a unanimous success like 2024’sDeadpool & Wolverine, Sam Wilson’s first solo movie is making progress at a steady pace at the box office. Soon,Captain America: Brave New Worldwill surpass bothCaptain America: The First AvengerandEternals, andThunderbolts*' box office will provide a clearer point of reference for its performance.
