Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel Soars To Massive $153M Opening Weekend

Marvel’s first-ever female-led superhero film, Captain Marvel, starring Brie Larson in the titular role soared to $153 million at the domestic box office for its opening weekend.

With a $153 million opening at the domestic box office, the film has flown past the opening weekend Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 for the seventh highest-opening weekend at the domestic box office in the 21-installment franchise. It also landed itself the highest-opening weekend at the domestic box office for 2019 so far and the third highest-opening for the month of March ever.

Captain Marvel has been praised by critics for its action, visual effects, humor and for the origin of the film’s hero itself. The film features Brie Larson as Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel: a test pilot in the comics who gained super strength and the ability to fly after being caught in an explosion with a Kree device. It also features the debut of The Skrulls in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, an advanced shapeshifting alien race known for the Kree-Skrull War in the comics.

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Mississipi Grind helmers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have directed from a script written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Nicole Perlman and Meg LeFauve. Here’s the official synopsis:

Set in the 1990s, Marvel Studios’ “Captain Marvel” is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that follows the journey of Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes. While a galactic war between two alien races reaches Earth, Danvers finds herself and a small cadre of allies at the center of the maelstrom.

Captain Marvel stars Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch, Gemma Chan, Algenis Perez Soto, Rune Temte, McKenna Grace, Clark Gregg and Jude Law. The film is slated to hit theaters on March 8, 2019.

Following her debut in her titular standalone film, Brie Larson will return to face Thanos in April when Avengers: Endgame hits theaters on April 26, 2019, however, it remains unclear as to whether or not Samuel L Jackson will appear.

Plot details are still under wraps but the Avengers are expected to attempt to undo Thanos’ snap which gave way to the decimation of half of the Universe after the heroes failed to stop the Mad Titan from collecting all six Infinity Stones in Avengers: Infinity War. The highly-anticipated Avengers: Infinity War follow-up will conclude the previous 22 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe before Marvel kicks off Phase 4 with Spider-Man: Far From Home in July.

Stay tuned to Heroic Hollywood for the latest news on the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we learn it.

Source: Box Office