Looks like Marvel’s The Avengers might have to add “Earth’s Most Successful Movie Heroes” to their resume:
Marvel’s The Avengers from Disney broke $100M in its second weekend for the first time in movie history (beating Avatar‘s 75M). Saturday’s number is about $43.1M after Friday’s was $29.1M for an estimated weekend total of $103.2M with Sunday’s expected $30.9M. That’s down only 50% from its massive opening a week ago. The projected domestic cume now is $373.2M for its first 10 days of release. The international figure is $628.9M after adding $95.4M from overseas this weekend playing in almost every movie territory. Disney says Avengers will cross $1.002B worldwide Sunday. Yowza! That makes Avengers #11 on the all-time money making list, past The Dark Knight (not adjusted for premium ticket prices or inflation). And it should shoot up to #5 very quickly. It will be the first Marvel film and fifth Disney release to reach $1B.
Seriously, everyone involved should be feeling very happy right now – and, hopefully, a movie this successful will translate into renewed interest in the comics in some form, right…?
May 14th, 2012 at 8:52 am
This is great news!… except for the Kirby’s.
May 14th, 2012 at 9:35 am
Loved The Avengers. I’ve seen it twice and will see it a third time later this week. Not everyone think it’s great. Like John Byrne for instance…
If the Avengers movie is how you define “faithful”, then there’s no need for an FF reboot.
All I’ve seen are the trailers, and in each and every one there is AT LEAST one instance, and usually more, of one or more characters speaking lines that really do not belong to them. So it’s not JUST the costumes. There’s a very large iceberg under that!
May 14th, 2012 at 9:46 am
Byrne hates everything he isn’t a part of.
May 14th, 2012 at 11:26 am
Imagine if the execs who greenlit this movie asked for a % of the profits and didn’t take a salary?
May 14th, 2012 at 1:38 pm
This is great news!…except for those of us who want more intelligent superhero movies, and less of this mindless, eye-candy drek.
May 14th, 2012 at 4:56 pm
Congrats to the filmmakers and all for a great movie but the 3D surcharge and inflation certainly pumps those numbers up quite a bit, especially compared to E.T. and Titanic (even though I can’t stand that film).
I really wish success of a film was based on number of tickets sold, thus Gone With the Wind would be back to being numero uno and E.T. would be deuce.