It’s less than five weeks until the first big opening of 2025, that being Disney/Marvel Studios’ Captain America: Brave New World, which hit tracking service Quorum and is expected to do $86M to $95M over the 3-day of the 4-day Valentine’s Day/Presidents Day weekend on Feb.

Brave New World Box Office predictions are in, and Marvel Studios has reason to be optimistic about the next MCU movie.

Measuring this result up to the history of the Chris Evans Captain America trilogy, Brave New World’s opening isn’t the highest water mark on the board. At the same time, the figures shown below slot this new chapter in a pretty fantastic place when you consider all the factors in play. Here’s the history of Cap’s opening weekend history thus far:

Captain America: Brave New World stars Anthony Mackie, Danny Ramirez, Shira Haas, Xosha Roquemore, Carl Lumbly, with Giancarlo Esposito, Liv Tyler, Tim Blake Nelson, and Harrison Ford. The film is directed by Julius Onah and produced by Kevin Feige and Nate Moore. Louis D’Esposito and Charles Newirth serve as executive producers.

Brave New World is preparing for takeoff at the box office. The Anthony Mackie-fronted Marvel Studios movie hit pre-release tracking service The Quorum and is projected to open with upwards of $95 million when it flies into theaters over Valentine’s Day/Presidents’ Day weekend on Feb.

Brave New World should build on that, and the other developments in the MCU since the early days after Endgame, to show us a Sam Wilson who’s more comfortable with the role of leading the Avengers. This brings me to the other reason why Captain America 4 is so important.

The early box office predictions for Captain America 4 suggest that it might become one of the highest openers for Marvel Studios in recent years. Being the fourth installment of the Captain America franchise,

Brave New World is arriving in theaters with a very unexpected record to its name. The upcoming fourth installment of Marvel Studios’ Captain America franchise, Brave New World, also stands as the Captain America movie with the shortest run time.

Brave New World is not only the shortest Captain America film in Marvel Cinematic Universe history, but it's one of the shortest MCU films. AMC Theatres revealed the runtime for Brave New World is one hour and 58 minutes,

Brave New World has been revealed, and it's relatively short for a Marvel movie. Per the AMC Theaters website, the runtime is one hour and 58 minutes, which makes it the shortest Captain America installment to date.

Brave New World makes history with its official runtime as the penultimate Phase Five MCU film nears its premiere.