With summer arriving in a beautiful blaze on Memorial Day weekend, moviegoers opted to stay outdoors rather than dive into Hollywood’s offering of two major blockbuster sequels. The result was a pair of franchise movies that failed to connect both critically and, more importantly for the studios, commercially.

Heading into the holiday battling terrible reviews coupled with a PR disaster following charges of spousal abuse levelled at Johnny Depp, Disney‘s “Alice Through The Looking Glass” is definitely not going to be the billion dollar hit of its predecessor “Alice In Wonderland.” Not even close.

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After a blockbuster debut in North America last weekend, there wasn’t much doubt that “Captain America: Civil War” would once again ride to the top of the box office. The newcomers didn’t pose much of a threat, and the only question, really, was just how big the second weekend for Marvel‘s latest hit would be.

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Well, the numbers have rolled in and ‘Civil War’ added $72.5 million to its domestic bank account, another $84.2 million internationally, bringing its total global haul to date to $940 million.

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Welcome dear readers to this month of May at the movies. And, you know, no big deal or anything, but we’ve also moved into a new home here at THEPLAYLIST.NET. So we hope you’ve had a look around already, or will do so after reading this month’s breakdown of what’s coming to theaters.

With that out of the way, now on to the column at hand. This first coming weekend of May will launch the summer blockbuster season, of course, and Marvel‘s “Captain America: Civil War” will no doubt kick things off with a healthy return at the box office (it’s already killing it overseas).

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