The summer box office season has kicked off with a super start for "Captain America: Civil War". The highly-anticipated movie is named one of the favorites for this year and fans have a great expectation about it.

According to Forbes, The Disney-Marvel motion picture has earned a healthy $13.3 million on its first Monday of domestic play. That is larger than the "first Monday" for "Iron Man 3" ($11.2m) and "Avengers: Age of Ultron" ($13.2m).

The Captain America movie has made the most money in China thus far (US$104.6 million after four days), followed by South Korea (US$54.3 million) and the UK (US$40.6 million).

This, along with many other countries and lesser foreign markets, bring up the total to $705.3m worldwide, making the movie the 83^rd highest-grossing movie of all time, according to Comic Book Resources.

"Captain America: Civil War" came out as the fifth-biggest box office opening of all time in the United States. It features behind record holders such as "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" ($248 million), "Jurassic World" with ($208.8 million), "Marvel's The Avengers" ($207.4 million) and "Avengers: Age of Ultron" ($191.3 million).

The movie is technically a sequel to "Captain America Winter Soldier" and showcases an array of impressive characters such as Black Widow, Iron Man, Bucky Barnes and Falcon. New characters such as Black Panther are also introduced in the much-awaited motion picture.

"Captain America: Civil War" could easily become the 25^th Film to take in US$1 billion worldwide by the end of its run. According to Variety, the film should overtake Deadpool's worldwide total of $762 million and pass Guardians of the Galaxy's $773 million within the next week.

"Captain America: Civil War" could easily be awarded as one of highest earned movies in the comic book and superhero realm. This is sure to create a high standard for all Marvel and DC movies that are yet to come in this year.