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Thanks to an original that greatly surpassed critical expectations, a lack of competition and ongoing enthusiasm for the “Avengers” franchise, “Captain America: Winter Soldier” garnered an impressive take in its Friday box office debut.<\/p>\n

Considerably besting its July 2011 predecessor, “Captain” garnered $37.0 million in its debut Friday. It is on track to earn between $90 and $100 million for the weekend.<\/p>\n

2011’s “Captain America: The First Avenger” settled for a $25.7 million opening night grab and $65.1 million in its first weekend.<\/p>\n

The take also eclipses that of 2013’s “Thor: The Dark World,” which earned $31.9 million in its first night. It went on to earn $85.7 million in its opening weekend.<\/p>\n

The rest of the top five on Friday: “Noah” ($4.9 million), “Divergent” ($4.2 million), “God’s Not Dead” ($2.2 million) and “The Grand Budapest Hotel” ($1.8 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[36,1050],"tags":[2002,1828,1906,1958,2004,2003],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n"Captain America: Winter Solider" Crushes Original at Box Office<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Thanks to an original that greatly surpassed critical expectations, a lack of competition and ongoing enthusiasm for the "Avengers" franchise, "Captain\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/04\/05\/captain-america-winter-solider-crushes-original-box-office\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""Captain America: Winter Solider" Crushes Original at Box Office\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thanks to an original that greatly surpassed critical expectations, a lack of competition and ongoing enthusiasm for the "Avengers" franchise, "Captain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/04\/05\/captain-america-winter-solider-crushes-original-box-office\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-04-05T19:03:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-04-06T00:46:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/04\/05\/captain-america-winter-solider-crushes-original-box-office\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/04\/05\/captain-america-winter-solider-crushes-original-box-office\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"Captain America: Winter Solider\\\" Crushes Original at Box Office\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-04-05T19:03:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-04-06T00:46:56+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"Thanks to an original that greatly surpassed critical expectations, a lack of competition and ongoing enthusiasm for the \\\"Avengers\\\" franchise, \\\"Captain\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/04\/05\/captain-america-winter-solider-crushes-original-box-office\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News & Charts, TV News & Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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