Too bad today isn’t Easter. Captain America: The Winter Soldier pulled a near-miraculous Sunday-morning resurrection, coming back from second place most of the weekend to defeat the new Rio 2, another sequel to a 2011 movie. The squeaky-cleanest of Marvel’s Avengers copped $41.4 million at North American theaters, according to preliminary studio estimates, while the Fox/Blue-Sky cartoon snagged $39 million. MoreCaptain America: The Winter Soldier Is a Spring SensationAudiences Say Yes to Noah, ‘Hasta la Vista, Baby’ to ArnoldMen Charged With Toppling Ancient Rock Formation Avoid Jail Time Huffington PostHere's An Updated Tally Of All The People Who Have Ever Died From A Marijuana Overdose Huffington PostWhite Supremacist Charged in Kansas Shooting Deaths PeopleBudgeted at a mediumish $103 million, the PG-rated Rio 2 reunites two rare Spix’s macaws (voiced by Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway) for a trip to the Brazilian rain forest, where the male exhibits city-bird neuroses, the female bonds with her country-bird family and the entire brood is imperiled by environmentally rapacious loggers.