weekly roundup

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It's been a busy, busy week in the cosmic MCU. Reactions continue to pour in for Captain Marvel, we got a new trailer for Endgame, and James Gunn was reinstated as director of GotG.

Assorted Captain Marvel links by snickfic
Discussion post: Rocket and Bucky's arm by lynnenne (with bonus fic by sholio in the comments!)
FIC: As You Are, As You Were (Carol/Maria) by saiditallbefore
More Captain Marvel links by snickfic (check the comments for more)
New Endgame trailer posted by snickfic
Disney Reinstates Director James Gunn for 'Guardians of the Galaxy 3' posted by lazaefair

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'Captain Marvel' Tops $200M Domestic And $600M Worldwide (Box Office)

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From Forbes:

Captain Marvel topped the box office for the second Friday of its domestic run, earning $19 million and bringing its domestic cume up to $215m in just eight days. That's a 69% drop from its $61.9m opening day (including Thursday previews). Bawdy jokes aside, that's an exceptionally boring drop, neither a super-strong hold nor a catastrophic fall. It's exactly in line with most big-scale comic book movies and big-scale fantasy actioners these days, such as The Hunger Games (-71%), Rogue One (-65%), Logan (-70%), Venom (-69%), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (-70%) and Avengers: Infinity War (-70%). The likely $70m second weekend will be the second-biggest second-weekend in March, behind Beauty and the Beast's $90m second-weekend-gross in 2017 following a record $174m debut weekend.

( Yes, the $150 million-budgeted MCU movie has already crossed $200m domestic and it has passed (or will pass today) the unadjusted-for-inflation totals of Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($202m), Thor: The Dark World ($206m), Venom ($212m), Solo ($214m), Ant-Man and the Wasp ($215m), Justice League ($229m), Doctor Strange ($232m). Presuming an over/under $70m (-53%) second weekend, the Brie Larson/Samuel L. Jackson/Reggie the Cat action fantasy will have earned $267m in ten days of domestic release, putting it above the likes of The Amazing Spider-Man ($262m) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($259m). At this point, it looks like Captain Marvel will top $400m domestic. Whether it finishes closer to Iron Man 3 ($409m) or Avengers: Age of Ultron ($459m) will be decided over the next couple of weeks. )