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Given that the Walt Disney Co announced its $4 billion purchase of Marvel three years ago almost to the day, that price tag looks like a bargain after Summer 2012. Because Marvel’s The Avengers in its 19th week of global release has passed $1.5 billion in worldwide theatrical grosses through Sunday. It’s now the world’s 3rd biggest movie of all time (not adjusted for inflation or higher ticket prices or 3D premium sales) behind only #2 Titanic (1997) and #1 Avatar (2009). After Disney re-released the superheroes assembly actioner into 1,705 locations this weekend, it took in another $1.7M in North America. Its 4-day Labor Day holiday domestic take is estimated at $2.2M. That puts its domestic cume through Sunday at $619.5M and through Monday at $620.1M. Its estimated international gross through Sunday is $882.3M. For a new global cume through Sunday of $1,501.8M.
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Even at “4 Billion”……Marvel’s purchase would be a bargain!!
It might not be a great movie, but it had an old fashioned fun feel to it. It had a very Indiana Jones/ Back to The Future feel to it.
Joss Whedon is the next Steven Spielberg/ James Cameron.
Won’t that really depend on if any of his own original work manages to connect to a mass audience? He did a wonderful job on Avengers…but it is Marvel’s Avengers. All of his previous work is strictly cult (and I’ve been a big fan of a lot of it). Let’s give the poor man some breathing room.
Also the last person they called the next Spielberg was M Night Shyamalan. Let’s not put that whammy on poor Joss OK?
word up!
Steven Spielberg’s first blockbuster was based on a book by Peter Benchley.
The top 3 of all time – Avatar, Titanic and Avengers – were all instantly forgettable as soon as I left the theater. Give me Star Wars, Jaws and Raiders Of The Lost Ark any day of the week over those three.
Obviously the 3 old school movies you mentioned are classics and great films, still does’nt mean you you have to turn up your nose on modern day hits. Stop hating man.
Disagree about Titanic, but otherwise you’re right. These CGI-stuffed pieces of piffle do not resonate.
Congrats to “The Avengers” reaching 1.5 billion worldwide, that’s a hell of an acomplishment. It’s a great film that definantly deserved to reach that lofty number in my opinion. This franchise is certainly in good hands it seems. I believe the sequel has the potential to be even better, if it that turns out to be true reaching 2 billion worldwide is a definante possibilty.
The Avengers is a great flick. No matter what generation. The character of Loki is a perfect villan. And he gets what coming to him. Joss Whedon did a stupendous job. Can’t wait for next installment.
Maybe the CHARACTER of Loki is a perfect villain, but the characterization in AVENGERS sure isn’t. One of my primary beefs about that film is the wan, uncharismatic Loki. I wouldn’t let Loki chase me across the street. Meanwhile, Tom Hardy’s Bane in TDKR is genuinely scary.
Loki IS a great character, but he needs to do more than grin skywards and mutter “war.”
A true mindless kiddie film/entertainment hit from the Mouse House. It’s what they do best and Marvel fits the bill perfectly. Just wait for an Avengers ride at Disney theme parks across the globe, except Florida. Watch that Disney stock soar on word of Avengers 2 and the Avengers’ E-ticket experience at Disneyland.
The Avengers was an ok movie. I hope Mr Whedon drops the clunky diologue. Loki had some of the worst diologue in a big budged movie in recent memory. It seemed as if he had watched some corny 1940′s and 50′s villains. Free you from freedom ? Realy ? I realy laughed at that one. Who can take a villain that talks like that serious ?
Fantastic performance by the Avengers. Congratulations all around.
Now… as all true Marvel fans have been thinking for a while now… shouldn’t Marvel’s flagship character be playing in this cinematic universe? And I don’t mean a situation where Sony loans out Spidey to Marvel Studios, because then you’d have too many chefs in the kitchen, with Sony demanding to have approval over everything that happens to Spidey in every single frame.
The best course of action, the one that would be win-win for all involved, would be for Sony to sell Spidey back to Marvel/Disney. Sony gets guaranteed money to create new franchises, Marvel gets back its most important and recognizable hero, and fans everywhere can rest assured future Spider-Man movies are being shepherded by the people who know and value the character most.
I liked The Amazing Spider Man better than the Raimi movies. But Sony get nothing out of it. They got “guaranteed money” out of the New Spidey movie. It made a profit.
If Sony sells the rights back to Marvel, they lose in the end. Not only do they lose a franchise character that is guaranteed box office (more than what Disney would ever pay), but they are handing billions of dollars and weeks of the title “#1 box office” to Disney/Marvel. 1) Marvel would make double what Sony would ever make with a Spidey movie given the synergy at Marvel Studios and 2) They would be helping Avengers sequels make another billion as Spider Man would surely be involved. Not to mention 3)the potential to cross Spidey over into Iron Man or Captain America sequels and make billions more.
So you think Sony should hand Spidey over for millions to help make their competition make billions of dollars? Sony is too smart for that.
Yeah! The Avengers is the movie I’ve enjoyed the most this year out of all them so far. I would love to see it over and over again! AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!!!
Seriously Watcher – give it up. You’re just annoying now. And you do not speak for everyone the way you think you do.
Spider-Man remains Sony’s biggest asset. The four films have been amongst the biggest hits the studio has had, even with the lower performance of the Webb film domestically.
Sony is NEVER selling him back in this lifetime.
Sony is billions in the hole and has been selling Spider-Man rights piecemeal over the last few years (merchendising last year, tv/toon rights the year before)
Making a few hundreds million bucks every few years (remember, after expenses, they get roughly half more or less from domestic and wayyyy less from foriegn totals) means crap when you are losing billions every freakin quarter.
Sony WILL sell the film rights to Marvel Studios. Anyone who can’t see that is not paying attention or just blind as hell.