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.

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.

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.

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.

Captain America: Brave New World follows Sam Wilson as he steps into his role as the new Captain America. Navigating the complexities of geopolitics, Sam encounters an international incident involving a mysterious global plot. As tensions rise, he must uncover the mastermind behind the scheme to prevent worldwide chaos.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Captain America: Brave New World” kept falling but still hovered above all others at a weak weekend box office. The latest Disney-Marvel offering brought in another $15 million according to studio estimates Sunday, when most of Hollywood’s attention was on the Oscars.

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,