The winter 2025 box office could certainly use a hero, and all eyes are on Anthony Mackie star Captain America: Brave New World to be just that.
If early tracking is correct, the Marvel Studios feature should open at least $90 million or more over the Valentine’s Day/President’s Day weekend. It was the same weekend that the first Deadpool opened, and also the first Black Panther. Photos from this year’s first All-Audience event will open on February 14th.
When it comes to movies, Marvel is back to basics. This one sees a whole new cast. Mackie’s Sam Wilson will take up the mantle of Captain America, a hero previously played by Chris Evans. Tommer, this movie moves away from sci-fi elements and the multiverse, and features an entirely new cast. It also cost around $180 million more than many other Marvel movies.
Rather, the film is a political action thriller similar to Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the 2014 film that starred Evans and introduced Mackie to the MCU. At last year’s CinemaCon, Marvel head Kevin Feige promised “no aliens, no alien invasion, no time travel.” He also called it a “relatively grounded action film.”
Directed by Julius Onah, Brave New World also stars Harrison Ford as the newly elected President of the United States, Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross. But before Wilson can make a decision, he uncovers a malicious global conspiracy that involves the President coming face to face with Ross when he unexpectedly transforms into the Red Hulk.
Danny Ramirez also portrays Joaquin Torres/Falcon, alongside Liv Tyler, Tim Blake Nelson, and Rosa Salazar.
Marvel had to take some serious stock of its strategy and future after a few movies swayed and reached its peak with Marvel, but thanks to the stunning success of Deadpool and Wolverine, much more I’m in a good place. All Time Pictures after earning north of $1.3 billion worldwide in summer 2024.
That’s not to say Brave New World hasn’t hit bumps in the road. The film will operate under a hazy shroud after wrapping principal photography in the spring of 2023, with additional photography in the spring of 2024 and 22 days of additional photography after several delays, released on February 14, 2025. I took a picture.
With a $90 million opening, Brave New World is behind three Marvel titles: Black Panther ($242.2.10), Deadpool ($152.1 million), Ant-Man, Wasp: Quantamania ($120.4.4 million) It boasts the fifth largest President’s Day sale in the United States. million) – Universal’s Fifty Shades of Gray ($93.1 million), not adjusted for inflation.
Disney will use the next three weeks to do their final and biggest marketing for the film.
