Captain Marvel blasts her way into billion-dollar box office club
It's the seventh Marvel Cinematic Universe movie to reach that milestone.
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Captain Marvel is still soaring at the box office.
Brie Larson's Captain Marvel is the newest member of the box office billion-dollar club, Disney reported on Wednesday. It's the seventh Marvel Studios film to reach this milestone.
The movie has earned $358 million domestically, which when added to $645 million from international markets, pushes the movie over the mark.
It's a good time to be in the Marvel movie business. There have been 21 films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe , and together they've earned over $18.5 billion, averaging $880 million per film.
Captain Marvel will be seen again in Avengers: Endgame, which just set records for ticket presales. When tickets started selling on Tuesday, it took the film only six hours to pass its MCU predecessor, Avengers: Infinity War, and three Star Wars films and become the most-anticipated film ever, according to movie-ticket sales site Fandango.
