Marvel-Disney’s “Captain America: Civil War” has opened the summer spectacularly with a dominant $181.8 million weekend at 4,266 U.S. locations.
The third “Captain America” movie met lofty expectations with the fifth-best domestic opening weekend of all time — trailing only “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” at $248 million, “Jurassic World” at $208.8 million, “Marvel’s The Avengers” at $207.4 million and “Avengers: Age of Ultron” at $191.3 million.
This is the anti-DC pro-Marvel bias in practice. “Civil War” was expected to gross $200 million its first weekend. If this was a DCEU movie the headline would have read “DC Movie Finishes $20 Million Below Expectations”–which is exactly what happened when BvS opened it only fell $3 million short of expectations. It’s a bias and it’s getting annoying.