Captain America: The Winter Soldier breaks April box office record for opening weekend

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier breaks April box office record for opening weekend
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier knocked out the competition this weekend, taking in $96.2 million in North America and shattering the previous record for an April opening — $86.2 million for 2011's Fast Five, the fifth Fast and Furious film.

The new Captain America opened overseas first, and over the course of 10 days has brought in $207.1 million. According to The Hollywood Reporter, close to 40 percent of the U.S. audience saw Captain America: The Winter Soldier in 3D, 64 percent of moviegoers were male, and 57 percent were over the age of 25.

Noah came in a distant second with $17 million, a 61 percent decrease from its opening the previous weekend.

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Catherine Garcia

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.