Figures as of March 18, 2019
Current gross of $789.3 million is higher than:
- Deadpool 2 ($785 million)
- Spider-Man 2 ($783.7 million)
- Deadpool ($783.1 million)
- Guardians of the Galaxy ($773.3 million)
- The Amazing Spider-Man ($757.9 million)
- X-Men: Days of Future Past ($747.8 million)
- Suicide Squad ($746.8 million)
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($714.2 million)
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($708.9 million)
- Doctor Strange ($677.7 million)
- Man of Steel ($668 million)
- Justice League ($657.9 million)
- Big Hero 6 ($657.8 million)
- Thor: The Dark World ($644.5 million)
- The Incredibles ($633 million)
- Hancock ($624.3 million)
- Iron Man 2 ($623.9 million)
- Ant-Man & the Wasp ($622.6 million)
- Logan ($619 million)
- Iron Man ($585.1 million)
- X-Men: Apocalypse ($543.9 million)
- Ant-Man ($519.3 million)
‘Captain Marvel’ Flying Higher, Further, Faster Past $800 Million Worldwide (Box Office)
When it does pass Wonder Woman’s worldwide gross, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s Captain Marvel will be the biggest-grossing live-action movie from a female director. It’ll also then be the second-biggest-grossing global grosser for any movie by a female director behind Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck’s Frozen ($1.276 billion). Since we’re getting a Frozen II this coming November (fun fact: that teaser plays like gangbusters on a Dolby Cinema screen) and a Wonder Woman 1984 next June (fun fact: a sequel that is more standalone like an Indiana Jones or 007 movie is still a sequel), we’ll see if Jenkins and Lee can enact their proverbial revenge on Carol Danvers and friends.
If will also have passed the unadjusted global gross of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn part II. That series finale (which still contains the best/coolest/craziest superheroes versus supervillains mass battle scene in cinematic history) earned a remarkable $819 million worldwide in 2012, without 3-D and (give or take a few territories) without any IMAX advantages. Once it gets past The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ($865m in 2013, sans 3-D), it’ll have bested that franchise as well. As we go forward, Captain Marvel will be taking its place atop the comic book superhero food chain and the “female-fronted fantasy” sub-genre while also ending up near the top among Walt Disney’s pre-summer (and often quite leggy) live-action fairy tale fantasy flicks.