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Marvel’s The Avengers on Thursday set a new domestic speed 
record, reaching the $400M box office threshold in 14 days. Worldwide, it has passed Toy Story 3 and Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest to become the #6 highest-grossing film of all time and the highest grossing Disney release ever. Internationally it is the #9 highest-grossing film of all time.
The Avengers’ cumulative performance to date: International box office $668.7M and Domestic $402M for Global $1,070.7M.
Additional highlights to date:
· Fastest film to reach $350M (10 days), $300M (9 days), $250M (6 days), $200M (3 days), $150M (3 days) and $100M (2 days) at domestic box office.
· Disney’s fifth release to cross the billion dollar global box office threshold.
· Biggest domestic opening of all time ($207.4M).
· Biggest domestic second weekend of all time ($103M).
· Highest-grossing domestic film of 2012, passing The Hunger Games in just 12 days of release, and is now the 12th highest grossing domestic release of all-time.
· Highest domestic Saturday tally ($69.5M).
· Highest domestic Sunday tally ($57M).
· Second-highest domestic single-day tally ($80.8M).
For more estimates listed by title, see box office results here...Editor-in-Chief Nikki Finke - tip her here.
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I thought that The Dark Knight would be the biggest moneymaker of the year. At this rate it’s going to be awfully difficult to match much less surpass The Avengers that could even topple Avatar
I have a hard time believing that Avengers can topple Avatar or Titanic when both of those films benefitted greatly from the smooth sailing through dump months in the spring. One of Titanic’s biggest competitors was The Man In The Iron Mask for goodness sake. Avatar was dealing with WGA-strike era garbage that was so bad they dumped it in spring 2010. Avengers has to take on new summer blockbusters every week.
Avengers has at least another week to itself if Battleship flops, the next month of big movies is Men in Black 3 on the 25th, Snow White on the 1st, and Prometheus on the 8th which is rated R so won’t be as big for the teens. Nothing else big until the 22nd when Brave and Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter come out. There’s a lot of space in there for Avengers to keep turning.
Purely anecdotal I know, but I Saw Avengers last night at the 8:15 show. It was PACKED. I couldn’t believe how crowded it was for a Thursday evening.
No way The Avengers will/could topple AVATAR but it will make it’s mark at #3!
the avengers took (2 days) to 100m, (2 days) to 150 m, (3 days) to 200 m, (6 days) to 250 m, (9 days) to 300 m, (10 days) to 350m, and (14 days) to 400m. that is amazing. I think no other movie will do that this summer or even this year. I knew that the Avengers will be big. It has a great cast,great story, lots of action,and great characters.
Maybe I’m not getting something here: The film’s opening weekend was a three-day opening and not a five-day opening, correct? If so, why do you list the record for passing $200 mil. at five days? It did $207.4 on its opening weekend, which you even wrote in your article, so I’m confused as to why you say it took five-days to cross the $200 mil. threshhold. Like I said, maybe I’m missing something.
Congrats whedon! Happy to say I knew you when, and proud to have been a part of your wonderful career the last fifteen years (as a mega fan that is). I feel like my best friend just won the lottery finally!
Nikki can you please start reporting the number of tickets sold?
That is the only statistic that means anything. Ticket prices have gone up so much so fast that it’s meaningless to compare box office gross to previous movies. Only the number of tickets sold counts the same way best seller book lists are based on numbers of books sold.
Investors don’t care about # of tickets sold. They care about how much money they make. It’s easy to find adjusted for inflation comparisons online.
To you it might and I get your point but clearly what matters in Hollywood is the amount of money a movie makes. I don’t think they make ticket sales as readily available but I know it sold 25-26 million that first weekend. For comparison, The Dark Knight sold 22 million or so its first weekend.
You have to see which stat they are using. There is a gross stat and then there is one adjusted for inflation. After you adjust for inflation Gone With the Wind is highest gross.
Great cast, great story, massively popular with fans and critics. “Four strikes and you’re out; we’ll make due with honoring art house crap like The Master that’ll make 50 cents at the box office.” Academy of Motion Picture Farts and Biases.
What’s wrong with art house movies? You think that’s crap? I’m sure the OMG AMAZING BOOM BOOM HULK SMASH CARS DESTROYED HULK HULK BOOOOOOM movie is much, much better than most art house movies… yeah.
This is especially true in the case of Avengers, whose gross has been goosed by 3D ticket sales from some 3/4 of its 4,000+ screens (an advantage TDKR won’t have). Where does Avengers rank in terms of tickets sold?
So, is this the unofficial/official start of Joss Whedon for Best Director and Kevin Feige for Best Producer come award session? Or is that when the movie reaches its inevitable two billion dollar gross?
She can’t because both the theaters and studios don’t track that or release that info.
The adjusted chart is not all it’s cracked up to be. It’s useful as a rough comparison but many of the films there earned their grosses over decades and multiple releases. Plus it’s utterly bogus. Gone with the Wind did NOT earn a Billion dollars in 1939.
No point bitching about inflation. But it makes the adjusted chart irrelevant apart from idle curiosity and ‘what if’ scenarios and banter. It is not reliable for serious analysis.
However, Box Office Mojo does have a chart that estimates tickets sold and it states The Avengers sold around 26 million tickets to Dark Knight’s 22 million.
In 1939 tickets were like 5 cents if that much , Gone with the Wind grossed 198 million in 1939 that is remarkable for the time. Adjusted gross is a serious and factual measuring point. My Mom who was born in 1931 used to tell us stories about being able to ride the bus to town see a movie , get popcorn and a coke and ride the bus home for 26 cent. you would be lucky to pull that off today for 26 dollars.
Sure Gone with the Wind didn’t gross a billion $ , but Avatar didn’t gross 200 million if you lower the ticket price to those of 1939.
Again, see my post. The only numbers I’ve seen released about ticket sales are for avengers opening weekend. In 2008 the dark night sold a then record 22 million tickets opening weekend. The avengers sold nearly 26 million tickets it’s opening weekend. So of you want TDKR to beat the avengers ticket sale wise it has to exceed 26 million (i dont see it happening. TDKR will not bring in the family crowd the way Avengers isdoing) If you wanted TDKR to beat the avengers opening weekend money wise, I think it has to top at least 30 million ticket sales. There is a Forbes article on it if you search for it.
What really matters is net profitability. Avengers cost a fortune to make. It’s going to make a fortune but the percentage return on investment that Marvel ends up with won’t be nearly as much as what Paramount got from Paranormal Activity to use a recent example.
Wasn’t The Avengers a Paramount release?
Paramount’s name is on it and they’re getting a piece because they’d bought some rights from Marvel and are now licensing them back. Wisely.
How much did it cost to make Avengers?
$180mil not including marketing costs
I don’t like the superhero genre at all and I really want to see this movie
I understand your point about the tickets, but when you consider a few facts such as: star wars was released 4 times to a large audience; titanic what is in theaters for the better half of the year as was avatar and is on its third release to a fairly large audience; avengers has been released in a recession to top all recessions; avengers has not yet been in theaters 4 3 full weeks; avengers was not released internationally until 1 week after it’s u s release; and as good as the dark knight worries, the creator/ director/ writer himself even attribute id it being the swan song of heath ledger as to its huge success
We loved the movie …until Loki called black widow a quim…that’s the c word. What complete idiot felt the need for that bin this film. We already hated Loki in Thor…geez,
Don’t for Dark Knight Rises..can put a damper on the ticket sales
This movie deserves to be number 1, but I can understand if it never makes it there. I bet the DVD sales are off the charts too.