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· Biggest domestic opening weekend of all time.
· Fastest film to reach $200M (3 days).
· Highest Saturday of all time: $69.7M.
· 8th biggest midnights opening.
· Biggest superhero midnights debut.
· Passed domestic totals for Captain America and Thor.
· Passed international box office totals of Captain America ($192M), Iron Man ($266.7M), Thor ($268.3M), and Iron Man 2 ($311.5M) in 12 days of release.
· Biggest opening weekend of all time in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Central America, Peru, Bolivia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines.
· Biggest Marvel opening weekend in Russia (May 3): $17.9M.
· Passed the global box office totals of Captain America ($364M) and Thor ($449M) and Iron Man ($585M) and Iron Man 2 ($624M).
· 110 domestic IMAX locations established a new opening Saturday record.
· Biggest IMAX domestic opening weekend for a digital only release.
· Highest grossing opening weekend in IMAX’s history
· Domestic weekend estimate from all 4,349 theaters: $200.3M.
· Domestic weekend theater average: $46,063.
· International weekend estimate: $151.5M
· In 52 territories representing about 95% of the international market.
· International cume: $441.5M
· Global cume estimate: $641.8M
· Crossed the $600M global box office threshold today after just 12 days of release.
· Performance to date in key international territories: UK $48.1M, Mexico $40.2M, Australia $32.2M, Korea $31.3M, Brazil $31.0M, France $26.4M, Italy $18.8M, Germany $18.3M, Russia $17.9M, China $17.4M, Spain $14.4M, Taiwan $14.3M, Philippines $11.5M.
· IMAX global total box office: $31.2M
· Cinema Score: A+
· Rotten Tomatoes: 94% positive reviews
· Audience: 50% over 25, 50% under 25; 60% male, 40% female; 55% couples, 24% family, 21% teens.
· Viewing: 52% 3D, 40% traditional 2D, 8% IMAX, 4% premium large format.
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Great news for the industry. But the movie is way overrated.
Yeah.. either you’re right and it’s overrated, or all those movie reviewers who gave it 94% positive are right.
Hmmmm.. I wonder.
I guess some people don’t understand what ‘overrated’ means.
Agree. The movie is okay to good, but the box office is creating its own hype.
It seems he understood; I guess some people don’t understand that they aren’t always right.
If he understood, he would not have misused the term.
That’s not a matter of popular appeal.
Saying that something is overrated is a matter of opinion. You can’t quantify opinions into absolutes like “right” or “wrong”, because opinions are subjective. His attempt to quantify the minority’s opinion into objective terms like “right” or “wrong” and compare it to the popular majority’s opinion only validates the minority’s point that something is overrated.
Opinions are overrated…
Amirite; Opinion is abstract, but his “opinion” was an objection to yours, not a misunderstanding.
Anonymous; he did not make any opinion in objection to mine. He simply attempted to quantify my opinion into an absolute in comparison to other people’s opinions, which is an illogical act — an act which only further proved my case. Had he made an opinion such as “it’s not overrated”, then I wouldn’t have been able to disagree, because it’s an opinion.
Oh, i definantly know what overrated is, and “The Avengers” is not that. It’s a brilliant film, period. You’re entitled to your opinion, in my opinion you’re wrong, but it is what it is.
Oh…so you must be the type of person who judges a film based on what critics say, instead of seeing it on your own and forming our own opinion. I couldn’t care less what the critics say…I form my own opinions. Too bad you’re not smart enough to do the same.
“Crossed the $600M global box office threshold today after just 12 days of release.” Hmm are you you new here? Dont be such a snob. For the genre, it is top shelf stuff.
Wow. Wow. WOW.
Congrats to all involved.
Respect given to Jack Kirby upon whose work this achievement was based and made all the money everyone else is pocketing off this movie possible: 0
Kirby does deserve credit, which he received, but he didn’t do it alone. Stan Lee, the Buscemas, Walt Simonson, J. M. Straczynski, and so many others I can’t even think of their names right now had a huge hand in creating and developing these characters.
All the early Avengers artists (Kirby, John Buscema, Don Heck, et al) were mentioned in the credits. Kirby got screen credit as co-creator of the Avengers AND as co-creator of Cap. Unfortunately, no profit participation
Stan Lee, deservedly so, is not exactly lacking for credit. Without Kirby, however, the Marvel Universe in which “the Buscemas, Walt Simonson, J.M. Straczynki, and so many others” had a hand would not exist.
That’s the difference, and that’s why so much money being made by everyone but his family is shameful.
Gosh, a movie that is smart, fun, funny and inspiring does well at the box office. Shocker! Hope the whole town is taking notes. GOOD MOVIES MAKE MORE MONEY! Stop making crap and the audience will return. I know people who are broke-ass-broke who are paying to see this movie a second time. Yes, it is that good.
I’m broke, and I’ve seen it twice!
And they say piracy is hurting the industry…
You know it would have made $250 if not for the pirates…
I’m glad for everyone who made money this weekend, but it’s still bittersweet to see that the popular culture will continue to be dominated by 120 minute toy commercials for Xbox-playing man-children the extent of whose post-film discussions will be limited to repeating “Hulk Smash!”
as opposed to…?
Did you even see it? Even if AVENGERS isn’t your cup of tea, it’s a bit much to cynically call this a “toy commercial.” AVENGERS is massively fun, whip smart fantasy filmmaking that unabashedly wears it’s heart on it’s sleeve. Not everything works, but I left the theater feeling that Joss and the team swung for the fences in every area.
Look at that, four medium sized sentences strung together by a “man-child.”
Oh yeah…….Hulk did, in fact, SMASH.
Yeah, these characters have only been, together and separately, in constant publication for fifty years, because they’re only about ‘Hulk Smash’
Hopefully the actuals (released Monday) will keep it above $200 million.
HULK SMASH PUNY BOX OFFICE RECORDS!
I always thought wishing that a funny, well-crafted, truly entertaining film would do so well was a pipe dream. Nice to see some dreams come true.
Of course…now I’m back to wishing the fourth Twilight film will bomb horribly.
Lol…I have that wish too and I am sad knowing it will not come true. At least it is the end of that putrid franchise though…
Maybe FOX will pattention to this, and finally released an X-Men movie worth of its characters.
Just ditch this whole First Class nonsense and reboot everything with the characters we all love: Wolverine, Jean Grey, Cyclops, Storm, Rogue, Gambit, Beast and Kitty Pryde. There you have it.
I adore X-Men: First Class but I love that you call Kitty Pryde a “loved” character. With that roster, it looks like you’re almost suggesting an Astonishing line-up, which I would thoroughly approve. It would be wonderful to see Kitty as a twenty-something opposed to as a teenager.
Great “popcorn” movie and start-of-the-2012-blockbuster summer. Should hold on to title for a while – other big event films this summer in play not in 3-D (I think).
Good grosses beget good grosses . . . Johnny Depp next
I said the other day in the original Avengers thread that I thought it had a better than even chance of breaking the old record. I figured a $200m domestic opening was inevitable, but didn’t actually think it would happen yet.
It does make you wonder what the opening might be like for Avengers2.
Incidentally, Nikki (to whom we owe much for this great site) also mentioned the 3D info in this story. I saw Avengers in IMAX 3D and it was the first 3D film I’ve seen yet that was worth it. Some of those shots were just amazing. It did what it should- it really enhanced the viewing experience.
Bravo!
There was a “created by” credit to Kirby in the film. That’s significantly more than 0 credit.
I love comic books. Have no idea why this movie is making so much money. It was okay to good. Are the other movies being put out that bad?
It’s going to beat Avatar for sure. WoM is exceptionally strong.
Percent of huge audience that will now go buy an Avengers (or any other) comic: 0
Huge fan. This movie is literally from my preteen daydreams.
That said, a ticket for a 6pm show in the midwest was $14.50.
Records are indeed made to be broken.
Ummmmmm… Respect given to Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch, whose work this movie was largely based off of.
There’s a difference between structure and character
As far as I can see, the only thing remotely connected between the Ultimates Avengers and Whedon’s was costume design and Sam Jackson as Nick Fury.
Whedon wisely decided to make The Avengers heroic and likeable, which is the polar opposite of Millar’s and Hitch’s take.
Best action movie I have seen in years
any backlash is either by attention seekers or people who just dont get. Its a genuine crowd please that is doing the most important 2 things in the business. Making money and pleasing the audience. No amount of PR kudos can detract from the fact – the film is really really entertaining – and thats whats missing in so many films. And people want to experience that again and again… Good films make money… who would have though… SMASH
I think this could stay at the top of the box office until battleship comes out and maybe even passed that to MIBIII
It was just damned good fun. I’ll pay for this any day of the week. Are you listening Hollywood. George Clooney was no where to be seen.
To SpecialK: you Gotta be kidding!!
The movie succeeded despite those HACKS Millar and Hitch who almost single-handedly destroyed everything Lee and Kirby built.
There is only ONE Marvel “universe” (-I hate that term), that is the one Lee and Kirby built and responsible for.
Everything else is comparable to a writhing, festering corpse. THAT is what Millar and Hitch
created.
I thoroughly enjoyed “The Avengers”. You don’t have to be a comic book fan to enjoy this, nor do you have to be 18 years old. I’m 67 and had a great time. So much for demographics, eh? A good film, is a good film, is a good film… Loved that the characters ribbed each other, great humor. More crowd pleasers like this, please.