Relocating from summer to spring, it was a foregone conclusion that Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier would break the April opening weekend box office record. It did so with a whopping 46% improvement over 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger's opening - $95 million makes for the biggest start for any film so far this year. Fellow blockbusters Noah and Divergent rounded out the Top 3 with not even a third of Captain America's gross between them; stronger performances above $1 million for the weekend belonged to three expanding releases such as God's Not Dead in fourth, The Grand Budapest Hotel in sixth and Bad Words in eleventh, though all three experienced declines in their grosses on last weekend. The only new releases below Captain America were all limited, and none spectacular. Halle Berry drama Frankie & Alice finally received a release after years on the shelf, but $350,647 in 171 theatres was pretty pitiful. Critically-acclaimed Scarlett Johansson film Under the Skin (making for a good weekend for ScarJo) posted the highest per-theatre average of the weekend, with $33,289 in its opening. There were several high-profile new entries into screens on Friday, including Nymphomaniac: Volume II (again, following a prior VOD release), Afflicted, The Unknown Known, Dom Hemingway, Alan Partridge: Alpa Papa, Alien Abduction, Ilo Ilo, Watermark and The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, but none made more than $7,500 per-theatre, and none cracked the Top 30.
Top 10
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($95,023,721)
- Noah ($17,045,744)
- Divergent ($12,976,413)
- God's Not Dead ($7,762,603)
- Muppets Most Wanted ($6,145,357)
- The Grand Budapest Hotel ($6,115,230)
- Mr. Peabody & Sherman ($5,131,458)
- Sabotage ($1,999,758)
- Need for Speed ($1,807,160)
- Non-Stop ($1,793,330)
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