Marvel’sCaptain America: Brave New Worldreaches another milestone as it leaves behind another threeMCUsolo movies at the domestic box office, but it still may not be enough for Sam Wilson’s Phase 5 movie to be considered a success.Captain America: Brave New WorldopenedMarvel Studios' 2025 live-action slatewith a few key MCU events, including the announcement of adamantium andPresident Ross' public transformation into Red Hulk. Despite its spectacular premise, however,Captain America: Brave New Worldhas struggled to make significant progress at the box office, though it slowly crosses new landmarks one month after its theatrical release.
As of July 23, 2025,Captain America: Brave New Worldhas earned $185,396,912 domestically(viaBox Office Mojo), officially surpassingAnt-Man’s $180.2 million,Thor’s $181 million, andBlack Widow’s $183.6 million. Internationally,Captain America: Brave New World’s $203.2 million is still a long way fromThor’s $268.2 million andAnt-Man’s $339.1 million, however.Captain America: Brave New World’s worldwide box office gross places it in the bottom fifth spot in the MCU’s rankings.
What Captain America: Brave New World’s Latest Box Office Update Means
Captain America: Brave New World Still Has A Few Other Landmarks To Reach
With enough momentum,Captain America: Brave New Worldcould surpass four other movies' domestic box office.Captain America: Brave New Worldneeds $47 million to reachDoctor Strange’s $232.6 million domestic box office. By then, it will already have passedThor: The Dark World,Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,Ant-Man and the Wasp, andShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.AfterDoctor Strange,Captain America: Brave New Worldwill need another $27 million domestically to reachCaptain America: The Winter Soldierand more than $52 million to reachIron Man.
Captain America: Brave New World Director’s Post-Credits Scene Comments May Have Comic-Accurate Implications For 1 MCU Villain
The Leader’s multiverse threat in Captain America: Brave New World’s post-credits scene may be deliberately wrong for a comic-accurate reason.
At $389 million worldwide,Captain America: Brave New Worldis on track to surpassEternals' $401 million. However, reachingShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings' $432.2 million,Thor’s $449.3 million, andAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’s $476 million is looking increasingly harder, asCaptain America: Brave New World’s earnings continue to drop. At this point, reachingAnt-Man’s $518.8 million anytime soon seems off the table.
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Captain America: Brave New World Further Emphasizes The Idea That Marvel’s Box Office Reign Is Weakening
Captain America: Brave New Worldis running out of steam at the box office.Despite not receiving the same amount of harsh criticism asEternals,The Marvels,Secret Invasion, andShe-Hulk: Attorney At Law,Captain America: Brave New Worldremains at the fifth worst spot in the MCU’s box office rankings, and it holds the third worst spot in the MCU’sRotten Tomatoesrankings (by critics' score). HadCaptain America: Brave New Worldbeen released in the Infinity Saga, it could have been received much better by critics and audiences alike, by momentum alone.Upcoming movies likeThunderbolts*,The Fantastic Four: First Steps, andAvengers: Doomsdayaren’t destined to get similar results, but they’re certainly facing a big challenge, following upCaptain America: Brave New World’s poor performance.
