While fans are looking forward to upcoming Marvel movies, they're also still unpacking the events of Captain America: Brave New World. One of the movie's main plot lines was an Eternals tie-in, with Celestial Island (aka Tiamut's frozen body) introducing adamantium and becoming a global arms race in the process.

Let's take a look at box office grosses and the cost of doing mega-franchise business, using Captain America: Brave New World as a lens.

While Marvel certainly has some big things on deck for the rest of 2025, Captain America: Brave New World continues to be a somewhat underwhelming endeavor.

Turns out, I wasn’t alone—this was around the time the MCU started its nosedive, culminating in the box-office disaster that was The Marvels. Ironically, I actually did see that one, mostly to support Brie Larson and because I genuinely loved Iman Vellani’s Ms.

At time of writing, latest figures put Brave New World’s global box office at $370.8 million dollars, with $176.5 million of that coming from the United States. This means the MCU sequel has just edged out the first Captain America film from 2011, which took in $370.6 million worldwide.

Captain America: Brave New World served as a fresh start for the iconic character, with Anthony Mackie in the lead role and the legendary Harrison Ford entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the first time. However, despite the name value that the character provides, the movie ended up being mixed in terms of its success levels.

Brave New World underwent major reshoots--but some of the changes may have been for the better of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Brave New World has, so far, made $176.6 million in the U.S. and Canada, and $194.6 million in other countries, for a total of $371.2 million worldwide. The movie needed to earn $425 million to break even,