If pre-ticket sales are any indication of a film’s success at the box office, and they usually are, Marvel Studio’s new “Captain America: Brave New World” is going to continue the streak of theatrical failures for the Disney owned brand. Breitbart News is reporting the numbers for pre-ticket sales are hovering around the same level as their previous project, “Eternals,” which also bombed horribly. This is not a good sign. Not at all.
However, it’s not surprising. Marvel and Disney have gone full woke over the last few years, really ever since “Avengers: Endgame” came out, and the new Captain America movie will continue the trend. One of the reasons this movie is destined to crash and burn is because the title character is no longer Steve Rogers as played by actor Chris Evans. The mantel has been passed to Anthony Mackie, who was the Falcon before taking up the shield. I don’t think anyone is interested in this version of the character.
“Eternals is considered one of the MCU’s biggest busts with a $402 million box office gross. There also won’t be an Eternals 2, and recently it was learned the same producer behind Eternals and Captain America: Brave New World is exiting Marvel. It’s also been reported Brave New World has gone through multiple reshoots ballooning its budget to $350 million or more, much higher than that of Eternals,” said a report from Cosmic Book.
If you go to purchase tickets for the movie, most of the theaters show almost completely empty auditoriums. We should see nearly sold out theater houses given Cap is a massive draw, but alas, that’s not the case anymore.
Captain America: Brave New World ticket sales for Thursday preview RPX theater at 7:40pm 👀 pic.twitter.com/vsqFLLAmCa
— Cosmic Book News (@cosmicbooknews) January 18, 2025
And yeah, #CaptainAmerica: #BraveNewWorld had its pre-sales kickoff on FRI at US #BoxOffice!
After 2 days of pre-sales, although nowhere near #Quantumania which opened on the same weekend in 2023, #CaptainAmericaBraveNewWorld is currently 1.4x better than #TheMarvels &… pic.twitter.com/tUjyyHE1Sx— Luiz Fernando (@Luiz_Fernando_J) January 19, 2025
Kinsey Townsend with MXDWN noted that that last summer’s success of Deadpool & Wolverine may not be enough to propel Brave New World into financial success.
“After 2024 saw the success of Deadpool & Wolverine, audiences are curious if the next Marvel film, in this case, Captain America, will find the same success. However, with tickets now on sale, the film is not doing as well as other Marvel movies. In comparison to Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Captain America has a much lower number for ticket pre-sales,” stated Kinsey.
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“The film is also being compared to Marvel’s Eternals, which had a $71 million opening weekend domestically In less than a month Captain America will be released and the box office numbers will be known,” Kinsey continued.
As was reported last November, Brave New World has been fraught with production difficulties from the start, with multiple reshoots and setbacks.
“Reports that the fourth Cap adventure was set to undergo more reshoots were recently confirmed when star Anthony Mackie was spotted shooting new scenes for the movie in LA,” wrote Comic Book Movie. “There was speculation that these might simply have been a few minor pick-ups, but it’s starting to sound like they may have been more extensive.”
I also think part of the reason these films continue to fall short is fatigue. Comic book movies were all the rage for over a decade straight. That’s a long time and a whole lot of films were produced during that time. Not to mention it’s a bit exhausting having to watch all of the movies and television series that come out in order to keep up with the overarching story told through its shared universe.
Perhaps it’s time for us as a culture to just move on to bigger and better things?