By world wide grosses:
Old Cap gave Sam the shield in the second highest worldwide grossing movie ever.
Already discussed. Keep up Penguin. I don't care how short your legs are.
So you're saying that unless Cap 4 does at least as well as the two previous movies (CA:TWS and CA:CW) it will be a failure?
I don't think race will matter at all. Overall people loved Mackie as Falcon. The reluctance, if it happens, would most likely come from recasting Cap so soon. If you look at the most iconic castings in comic book movie history. Evans Cap is right at the top along with Downey, and Jackman as wolverine. This isn't passing the torch on a second tier hero. I love Paul Rudd as antman. But I wouldn't really care if someone takes the mantle after him. I personally think this transition would have worked better with a bit more time between.
Yes. The movie must have been at least 200 million to make. That means they need 600 to turn a profit. It will be seen by Disney as the worst money maker of the Cap movies if it doesn't hit certain returns. They are starting from scratch with the character. We don't know how it will turn out. I really hope it is good but looking at Black Widow and the Falcon and the Winter Soldier, I'm worried.
A direct comparison is grossly unfair considering these numbers are for pre pandemic films. I think it is difficult to put a measure of success on a modern day film considering how much streaming has changed the landscape in the last few years.
That is a mute point considering that Top Gun Maverick did $1,482,805,552 post pandemic and Spiderman No Way Home did $1,920,544,470.
The whole thing is just a giant marketing failure. They assume way too many people have kept up with the Disney+ shows religiously. The normal casual moviegoer has no clue that Captain America is anyone other than Chris Evans as Steve Rogers.
Absolutely correct Cap!
They retired Cap at the end of the last film . Don't need to keep up with D + to know that.
Again, put your "casual moviegoer" hat on. They "retired Cap" but they're making Captain America 4. A casual moviegoer is confused by this.
To your "casual moviegoer" Steve handed over the shield to The Falcon at the end of Endgame. It doesn't require a Harvard degree to figure out that Steve is gone and Cap is someone else.
I will add per reports it won't be until the next Avengers movie that he is expected back. But those are all suppositions as well
He could have come back considering all the multiverse crap they are pulling. It could have been a movie happening in the middle of the Infinity Stones storyline like they did with Black Widow. It could be anything to the casual moviegoer.
I bet that changes post Capt. America 4. To you previous point, if you are not tied into Disney +, then you don't know why Captain America suddenly is black, and not Steve Rogers.
Other than anyone who saw old man Steve hand Sam the the shield at the end of the infinity saga. Seem to remember that was quite a lot of people
