Chris Evans as Captain America in 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier'.
Throwing his mighty shield on the big screen for the second time in three years, Marvel superhero Captain America is on course to break box office records worldwide.
With rave reviews and positive word of mouth, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” has so far surpassed box office expectations and has already exceeded the gross of 2011’s “Captain America: The First Avenger” in most territories.
In the Philippines alone, the film opened with a staggering gross of P155.51 million, which topples the opening weekend numbers of other movies based on Marvel superheroes such as “Thor” (P59.5M), “Captain America: The First Avenger” (P90.8M) and “Iron Man 2” (P104.9M).
According to Victor Cabrera, managing director of distributor Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Philippines, the film’s opening gross not only represents the biggest opening weekend for a foreign title (dethroning “300: Rise of an Empire”) so far in 2014 but also the biggest March opening ever in the industry.
“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” is currently showing in 453 screens nationwide including 8 IMAX theaters. The film’s gross is led by the SM Group claiming the three biggest opening receipts in SM North EDSA (P8.41-M), SM Mall of Asia (P8.33-M) and SM Megamall (P7.62-M).
Other theaters where “The Winter Soldier” performed particularly well include Trinoma (P5.16-M), Glorietta 4 (P4.90-M), SM Cebu (P4.36-M), Alabang Town Center (P3.96-M), Greenbelt 3 (P3.87-M), Power Plant (P3.79-M) and Greenhills Promenade (P3.70-M).
Rounding out the top 20 theaters with impressive box office receipts are SM Aura (P3.63-M), Newport (P3.39-M), SM Southmall (P2.83-M), Shang Cineplex (P2.72-M), Robinsons Magnolia (P2.543-M), Gateway (P2.541-M), Eastwood (P2.53-M), Ayala Cebu (P2.46-M), SM Fairview (P2.34-M) and SM Marikina (P2.15-M).
Unlike the first film set in World War II, the sequel finds the now unfrozen Steve Rogers a.k.a. Captain America trying to adjust to his modern surroundings in the aftermath of the the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers.
Fighting side by side this time with Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Falcon (Anthony Mackie), Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Johnson), Cap finds himself facing an enemy from within his supposed allies at S.H.I.E.L.D., including an old friend from his past.
Even as the film is set to open in the US on April 4, it has already earned an impressive 92 percent approval rating at film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Forbes.com calls it “flat-out fantastic” and ranks it “among the top three from Marvel and probably among the top two”. The UK-based The Guardian hails it as “an eye-popping Marvel spectacular”.
The highest compliment so far came from CinemaBlend.com, which compared “The Winter Soldier” to “Three Days of the Condor” which starred Robert Redford who now plays a high-ranking S.H.I.E.L.D. official in this film.
“With colorful heroes and spectacular action, the film is everything anyone could want from a comic book movie and will stand as one of the best of all time,” the site posted in its five-star review.
‘Captain America’ sequel tops PH box office with biggest opening weekend this year
Source: InterAksyon.com (April 02, 2014 at 03:11PM)
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