The film debuted to a massive €17.9 million in Ireland and the UK at the weekend, and that was just part of the sum which catapulted it to more than $200 million (€175) around the world.
Civil War’s plot is more of the usual: The Avengers must work together to vanquish evil, yet their petty disagreements divide them. Well, of course they do! And as in the recent Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, this superhero supergang has been supershamed by the fact that too many innocent civilians tend to be killed while they’re doing the business of dispatching baddies.
(At the beginning of Civil War, it’s Olsen’s Scarlet Witch who commits a particularly glaring transgression—she registers the horror of what she’s done with a kind of anguished matter-of-factness, a recognition that she’ll have to live with the consequences for the rest of her days.) Just why are superhero movies only just now cottoning to how many random humans are killed or injured while their protagonists are reducing skyscrapers to rubble or making smoldering scrapheaps out of giant mechanical villains? This carte-blanche carnage has been happening for years now, especially given how elaborate special effects have become; until recently, it seems, we’ve just been expected to look the other way, muttering something about the greater good.
Now, superhero guilt and culpability are major plot points, though it’s hard to say if it’s a way of making these characters richer and more complex, or simply of justifying bigger, more elaborate destructo-fests, as long as they’re accompanied by some token handwringing afterward.
That's just outside the top 10 openers of all time globally, and a shade behind Age of Ultron from 2015. Of course this was basically an Avengers movie so interest was always going to be high but the strong word of mouth should also ensure it remains popular for weeks to come.
Civil War also hasn't launched in cinemas in the States yet, and will be arriving in more than 4000 screens from the 6th of May there, and it's sure to be a massive success for all concerned.
Speaking of which, Disney is riding high at the box office, with a trio of films taking the top three spots - Captain America, The Jungle Book and Zootopia. We're very happy to report that the animated film is very close to earning 1 billion worldwide and is set to become one of the biggest films of all time.
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