The fatigue capes are coming! The fatigue capes are coming!
You know what some people are going to say, that it should've made more because it has the Avengers & Spidey, etc, etc. And reliable sources were predicting a 200m weekend:
Weekend Preview: After a $200.4 million international debut last weekend, Disney and Marvel's Captain America: Civil War is set to make its domestic debut, aiming to become only the fourth film to gross over $200 million in its opening weekend.
When it comes to Captain America: Civil War the question as to whether it will hit $200 million or not seems to be of little dispute.
That said, a weekend over $200 million is easy to forecast and even as much as $215 million isn't at all unreasonable.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4182&p=.htm
Predicting the BO is not as easy as it seems, that's why many predictions end up being off.
But it doesn't really matter, it's still a success, maybe the genre hit a ceiling with the first Avengers and no other superhero movie will make as much, but is not a failure when any of these movies make money for the studio. CW will probably make the billion club, although I find the one billion obsession silly, there are a lot of mediocre movies in that club:
Jurassic World: $1,670,400,637
Furious 7: $1,516,045,911
Frozen: $1,276,480,335
Iron Man 3: $1,215,439,994
Minions: $1,159,398,397
Transformers: Dark of the Moon: $1,123,794,079
Transformers: Age of Extinction: $1,104,054,072
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: $1,045,713,802
Alice in Wonderland (2010): $1,025,467,110
All of the above made more than The Dark Knight ($1,004,558,444) and X-Men: Days of Future Past ($747,862,775), despite these two being superior movies than most of them, but unfortunately, most people prefer lighter, superficial stuff. Is DOFP a failure for not making a billion? I don't think so, most superhero movies don't make one billion anyway, what matters the most is studios being satisfied with what they get.
