Are you guys sitting down? This is a staggering amount of money. Staggering. Captain America: The Winter Soldier has raked in $303.3 Million worldwide. That’s more than the majority of films make over their lifetime.

The domestic breakdown is $96.2 Million, while the foreign total is $207.1 Million, making this a truly international phenomenon.

Variety reports that the film made $37 Million on Friday night alone, breaking all previous Friday records in April:

With a Friday bow of $37 million, Disney-Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” not only obliterated its competition, but…

This is not exactly the film that the trailers tried to sell. And it’s definitely not the film many critics would have you believe either. They’ve been a little bit rough on this film. Yes, at times it felt like it was sticking a bit too much to the “young adult” formula, but I did find it to be pretty good.

Getting back to the trailers though, what was up with that? I could hazard a guess that they were really trying to sell it hard as a YA romance thing and put as much of that as they could in the trailers because what’s in the trailers is nearly all there is. Then there was the way that…

It’s that time of the week again. It’s time to decide what you want to see in the theaters this weekend. I shall talk about two new films, one of which I am quite certain will be good. The other one, well, we’ll have to see. I kind of want it to be good, but I kind of don’t think it will be any good.

New This Weekend

Muppets Most Wanted — PG

I’ve been spending some time getting caught up in Muppet world. I know I’ve seen various Muppet shows and movies throughout my life, but I really only remember The Muppet Babies on Saturday mornings. So I’ve gone back and watched several movies, and…

I really enjoyed Frozen. I’m talking “I-saw-it-three-times-in-theaters” enjoyed it. I’m talking “I-can-sing-most-of-the-songs-word-for-word” enjoyed it. I’M TALKI-

I think I’ve made my point.

Anyway, all of that goes to say that I’m not the only one who really enjoyed this film. For starters, our old friend Joe Darnell and I talked about it on Episode #72 of The MovieByte Podcast. It also won two awards at Sunday’s 86th Academy Awards - Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Song for “Let It Go,” sung by Idina Menzel (or, as John Travolta would have us believe, “Adele Dazim”) and…

This weekend, someone is apparently stupid enough to try to hijack a plane the Liam Neeson is on. We’ve already established the dude is not to be messed with, and certainly don’t take his daughter. But apparently someone is at it again. I feel like Neeson’s movies are just one big franchise.

New This Weekend

Non-Stop — PG-13

You can always count me in for a little Liam Neeson action. Taken was pretty good, and obviously his performance as Henri Ducard in Batman Begins was top notch. And He’s certainly everyone’s favorite Jedi (I hate you for killing him, George Lucas). And did I mention…

Decisions, decisions. On the one hand, maybe you’d like to hang out in Pompeii and catch a cheesy (and obviously tragic) love story before the city is buried by Mt. Vesuvius.

On the other hand, perhaps you’d rather spend some time getting to know Amber Heard and Kevin Costner while they figure out who to kill in the space of three days — or, something like that.

New This Weekend

Pompeii — PG-13

I have to admit, I don’t think it’s possible for me to be less interested in a film. This looks like a completely terrible tragic love story. I don’t get what the motivation is behind this thing,…

When your options are a tepidly received “RoboCop” remake and a Valentine’s Day-themed romance movie that only the teenage girl die-hards seemed interested in (“Endless Love”), is it any wonder “The Lego Movie” blocked out the competition this weekend? That said, performing quite well was the “About Last Night” remake. And no, don’t chalk that one up to ’80s nostalgia—instead, see it as one more film connecting with the underserved African-American audience who are happy to come out in droves when a movie is actually geared towards them.

Well what am I supposed to say to that. And what…

I had hoped to have seen the original RoboCop by the time I wrote this article this weekend so I could have a better idea of what I was in for and a more well informed opinion. Alas, between Netflix playing stupid with the disk, and it not being available for instant watch, that hasn’t happened. It is available for digital rental on Amazon, so I reckon I’ll do that (probably tonight) before I see the remake this weekend at the box office.

RoboCop — PG-13

I can’t say I’m particularly excited about this film. I was not allowed to watch the original given that it came out when I was five…

Some headlines write themselves don’t they? This one sure did. I looked at the movies being released this weekend, then I looked over at my title field and it had already filled itself in.

Seriously though, I think we have one (probably) really good film here, one maybe kind of okay film here, and one that just looks terrible. I’ll list these three newcomers to the box office in that order.

New This Weekend

The Lego Movie — PG

I’ve got to tell you, I was skeptical at first, but this film looks quite excellent. That last piece I posted with the featurette and nine clips from the film…