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‘Avengers’: $400M In 14 Days Sets New Domestic Speed Record; #6 All Time Highest Grossing Film

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday May 18, 2012 @ 8:22am PDTTags: Box Office, Disney, Marvel, The Avengers

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).

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Obama Gives ‘The View’ Ratings Boost

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday May 16, 2012 @ 2:13pm PDTTags: ABC, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, The Avengers, The View

President Obama’s visit to The View on Tuesday gave the show a 15-month ratings high. His appearance drew a 5/15, attracting 4.7 million viewers. It was his fourth visit to the ABC morning talk show and the first of his re-election campaign. Today, Barbara Walters announced that the show has extended an invitation to presumed Republication nominee Mitt Romney to appear; he has appeared previously.

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Rebecca Hall Up For ‘Iron Man 3’ Role Jessica Chastain Declined

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday May 8, 2012 @ 8:25pm PDTTags: Disney, Gwyneth Paltrow, Iron Man 3, Jessica Chastain, Marvel, Rebecca Hall, Robert Downey Jr., The Avengers

Rebecca Hall is in talks to join Iron Man 3.  The Town star would take over the role in the Marvel franchise that Jessica Chastain was up for until this weekend. “I’m sorry to say that … Read More »

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Disney Announces ‘Avengers 2′ In Development

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday May 8, 2012 @ 2:05pm PDTTags: Disney, Marvel Studios & Disney, The Avengers

The Avengers Sequel This won’t come as a surprise to anyone who sat through the credits of The Avengers, or who simply looked at the film’s record-breaking box office sales this past weekend. Still, fans (and investors) … Read More »

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Disney Tops Fiscal Q2 Earnings Estimates With Boosts From Cable And Theme Parks

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday May 8, 2012 @ 1:21pm PDTTags: Disney, John Carter, The Avengers

Disney Earnings Q2 2012Shares are up slightly in post-market trading after Disney delivered an earnings report with a little of something for everybody. The company generated net income of $1.22B, up 21.3% vs the period last … Read More »

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Epix Touts Its Premium Debut Of ‘The Avengers’ and ‘Hunger Games’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday May 7, 2012 @ 3:30pm PDTTags: Epix, The Avengers, The Hunger Games

Epix AvengersEpix is still looking to grow its carriage, and that task will certainly become easier with debut premium TV rights to the two biggest films so far this year. Both The Avengers and The Hunger … Read More »

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AMC Theaters Generated $4M Yesterday From ‘Avengers’ Mania

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Friday May 4, 2012 @ 1:36pm PDTTags: AMC Entertainment, AMC Theatres, The Avengers

AMC The AvengersEXCLUSIVE: AMC Theaters pulled out all the stops to cash in on the huge audience interest in Marvel’s The Avengers, and the exhibition chain says today that the effort paid off. “We grossed almost $4M … Read More »

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Samuel L. Jackson Launches Twitter War Over NYT’s Negative ‘Avengers’ Review

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday May 3, 2012 @ 6:23pm PDTTags: Disney, Marvel's The Avengers, Samuel L. Jackson, The Avengers, The New York Times, Twitter

Most of the critics were very positive about Marvel’s The Avengers opening at midnight tonight — which is why Samuel L. Jackson (aka Nick Fury) is so furious with The New York Times‘ negative review. The actor let his 825,315 followers  on Twitter today know it. “#Avengers fans, NY Times critic AO Scott needs a new job! Let’s help him find one! One he can ACTUALLY do!”. The NYT’s AO Scott in his review of the Joss Whedon-directed Disney film said, “The Avengersis hardly worth raging about, its failures are significant and dispiriting.” Scott also called Jackson’s role as the head of superspy agency S.H.I.E.L.D “more master of ceremonies than mission commander” in his review. Read More »

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‘Avengers’ Set For 275 U.S. IMAX Screens

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday May 2, 2012 @ 1:41pm PDTTags: IMAX, The Avengers

Avengers IMAXLos Angeles, CA – May 2, 2012 – IMAX Corporation (NYSE:IMAX; TSX:IMX), Marvel Studios and The Walt Disney Studios today announced that the epic Super Hero adventure Marvel’s The Avengers will be released in the immersive IMAX®

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Marvel’s ‘The Avengers’ $185.1M Overseas: Continues Breaking Box Office Records

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday April 30, 2012 @ 9:29am PDTTags: Disney, International Box Office, Marvel, The Avengers

‘Avengers’ Pre-Sales Bigger Than Previous Marvel Films Combined

BREAKING…  MONDAY 7TH UPDATE: Still more countries are reporting grosses, and the superhero super-blockbuster opened #1 in every foreign market. It doesn’t come out in the U.S. until May 4th but already it’s scooping up 60+% of all pre-sold movie tickets online and more than all the previous Marvel films combined. Overseas, Disney is reporting $185.1M box office in the film’s first 5 days of release in 39 territories. Marvel‘s The Avengers from Disney now is playing in approximately 70% of its foreign run. Latin and South America dominated with the highest opening weekend of all time in major markets like Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Central America, Peru, and Boliva. As well as the Asian makets which had the highest opening weekends in Hong King, Taiwan, Malaysia, Philippines. Big ticket nations like Russia, China and Japan are still to open, and upcoming May Day is a huge holiday. The pic is already grossing ahead of Alice In Wonderland, Pirates Of the Caribbean 4, Iron Man 2, and The Dark Knight. The Avengers scoored the biggest opening days in New Zealand, Taiwan, Iceland and Malaysia. Cumes for key territories include: UK $25.5M, Australia $19.8M, Mexico $16.9M, France $13.9M, Korea $13.0M, Brazil $11.3M, Italy $11.0M, Germany $8.1M, Taiwan $7.5M, Spain $6.9M, Philippines $6.6M, and Hong Kong $4.7M.
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‘The Avengers’ U.S. Ticket Pre-Sales Bigger Than Previous Marvel Movies Combined

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday April 26, 2012 @ 8:54am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Marvel, MovieTickets.com, The Avengers

Avengers Ticket SalesMore amazing stats for Marvel‘s The Avengers. MovieTickets.com reports that, with just over a week until the U.S. release,  the superhero actioner ”is pre-selling more tickets for the upcoming release than the online ticketing company sold for Captain America, … Read More »

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Disney Struts Its Stuff To Exhibitors: CinemaCon

By PETE HAMMOND | Wednesday April 25, 2012 @ 11:10am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, CinemaCon, Lionsgate, Pixar, The Avengers, Walt Disney Studios
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Despite being forced to face theater owners in the wake of Rich Ross’ exit last week, Disney pulled out their usual showmanship and unveiled a slate of high-profile movies. The studio didn’t miss a beat during their 2 1/2-hour CinemaCon presentation Tuesday night. In fact, the whole thing was similar to what the studio did in August at D23 in Anaheim. The only thing missing was the host — Ross. On Tuesday, it was distribution EVP Dave Hollis who handled the duties, deftly promoting the Disney “brands” with equal enthusiasm for their association with Marvel, DreamWorks and Pixar in addtion to the studio’s home-grown product. In fact, I lost count over how many times the phrase “we’re excited” was used by all of Tuesday’s participants in describing the future films from the Mouse House. And even though Hollis took time to highlight Disney’s recent slate, there was no mention at all of John Carter (the film that prompted a $200 million writedown for the company) — and quite frankly the Caesars Palace Colisseum exhibitor crowd didn’t seem to care. They were hyped that, studio upheaval or not, things were business as usual.

Related: Pixar Sets 3 Original Toons; Disney Confirms ‘Muppets 2′

In addition to making news with some formal film announcements — like the official “green” light given to The Muppets II via a funny appearance from Kermit (riding in on a plywood horse as The Lone Ranger) and Miss Piggy both jockeying to be cast in upcoming Disney tentpoles — each division got their turn to show off its stuff.

The show began with an extended 3D clip of blockbuster-in-waiting The Avengers, which Hollis said was opening in 10 markets today before hitting North America on May 4. Marvel’s Kevin Feige came out for a brief rundown of future Marvel/Disney projects including Thor 2, set for November 2013; Iron Man 3, with new director Shane Black, scheduled for May 2013; and Captain America hitting theaters on April 4, 2014. Read More »

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DC’s ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Trailer To Pair With Marvel’s ‘Avengers’ Release: Confirmed

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Saturday April 21, 2012 @ 10:08pm PDTTags: DC Comics, Marvel, The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises

Dark Knight Rises TrailerAttention, fanboys! Once again the earth is about to spin off its axis when comic worlds collide. I’ve confirmed that Warner Bros/DC Comics’ The Dark Knight Rises will debut its 3rd trailer when Marvel’s The Avengers … Read More »

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‘The Avengers,’ ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ Top Must-See List: Fandango

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday April 17, 2012 @ 2:09pm PDTTags: Fandango, Snow White and the Huntsman, The Avengers

The Avengers Box OfficeMovie-ticketing service Fandango released results of its “Most Anticipated Summer Movie Survey” today, and the top pick among survey participants should be a relief for the folks at Walt Disney Studios: The Avengers. … Read More »

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APA Signs ‘Cabin In The Woods’/'Spartacus’ Actress

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday April 13, 2012 @ 1:24pm PDTTags: Chris Hemsworth, Joss Whedon, The Avengers, The Cabin in the Woods

EXCLUSIVE: Anna Hutchison who’s a co-star in The Cabin in The Woods and just landed a recurring role on Starz’s Spartacus has signed with APA in all areas. The 26-year old former New Zealand soap star will still be … Read More »

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‘Avengers’ Tracking Like Superhero: $125+M Opening Weekend With 4-Quadrant Appeal

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday April 12, 2012 @ 7:39am PDTTags: Disney, Marvel, movie tracking, The Avengers

BREAKING… EXCLUSIVE: Marvel’s The Avengers just came on early tracking this morning “incredibly strong” exactly as Hollywood thought it would, my industry sources are telling me. This is the first Marvel film to be marketed and distributed by Disney so this is great news for the studio. The numbers tell the story: it has 23% ‘First Choice’ and 62% ‘Definite Interest for all audiences – incredibly high among men, and solid among females. With so many well known characters coming together for the first time in this PG-13 film directed by Joss Whedon in Digital 3D, RealD & IMAX 3D, the movie’s opening on May 4th timed to the official summer season start in North America will be an event. As a result, not only will this type of action film normally skew young and older male, but the early tracking is looking strong as a three- and possibly four-quadrant movie, too. One expert provided me with a box office guesstimate that this assembly of Marvel superheroes should open during its 3-day non-holiday weekend to $100+M domestic. That would make the film Marvel’s biggest opening, and its highest-grossing since Iron Man 2 ($128M opening weekend which ultimately made $312.4M domestic/$311.5M international for $623.9M worldwide). The non-holiday 3-day record is held by Warner Bros’ Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 with $169.1M. Right now Disney and theatre owners are adding screens every day for the release whose online pre-sales of tickets are already selling out. Midnight show business is expected to be phenomenal. Exactly how much the studio can gross for the first weekend depends on how many screenings each theater can pack into 72 hours by finding enough staff willing to work the extra hours and keep the pic running continuously.

The marketing campaign kicked into high gear Wednesday night for the world premiere in Hollywood at the El Capitan Theatre last night.(Text continues below)

Trailers for the film broke iTunes records twice for the most viewed trailer in a 24-hour period first in October 2011 (with over 10 million views), and then broke the record again in February 2012 with 13.7 million views in the first 24 hours. Advance tickets for the ‘Ultimate Marvel Marathon’ (5 movies in a row) leading up to the midnight release of Marvel’s The Avengers sold out in a month ahead of the release of the film in major U.S. cities and in Canada, prompting AMC to add shows to meet the demand. Read More »

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April Film Fests Ready For Their Close-Ups

By PETE HAMMOND | Wednesday March 28, 2012 @ 6:46pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Col-Coa, San Francisco International Film Festival, TCM Classic Film Festival, The Avengers, The Five Year Engagement
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This week the big April film festivals are tripping all over each other churning out announcements of film premieres, starry panels, schedules, events and so much more. Directly competing for attention — and against each other – on opposite coasts are, of course, the ever-growing Tribeca Film Festival in New York and the San Francisco International Film Festival  which seems to be going strong despite the untimely tragic passings of its last two leaders, Graham Leggat and his successor Bingham Ray. Both fests get underway on April 19th after Tribeca offers up their World Premiere opener, Universal’s comedy, The Five-Year Engagement  on April 18.  SFIFF will open the next evening with  Benoit Jacquot’s Farewell My Queen. This week that fest announced  five-time Oscar nominee Kenneth Branagh will receive their prestigious Founders Directing Award on April 27th, while Tribeca announced they will be closing their fest the next day with the World Premiere of sure-to-be summer blockbuster The Avengers from Disney and Marvel.  Earlier this week Tribeca announced an intriguing panel with founder Robert DeNiro , Meryl Streep and Judd Apatow discussing Universal’s first 100 years. Tribeca is particularly agressive in trying to move up in the world film festival hierarchy. The whole team was out in L.A. last week for a party touting this year’s fest. Tribeca Fest Director Geoff Gilmore told me they really decided to go for some of the most intriguing titles this year and thinks the effort has paid off in an exciting lineup he thinks will gain strong attention.

It may be hard for Hollywood to compete with these two well-regarded fests but a pair of my favorites are also happening right in the heart of L.A. and right around Read More »

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‘The Avengers’ To Close Tribeca Festival

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday March 28, 2012 @ 8:38am PDTTags: Marvel Studios, Paramount, The Avengers, Tribeca

The Avengers Movie TribecaMarvel Studios’ and Disney’s summer tentpole The Avengers has been tapped to be the closing-night film at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28 — a week before the film opens wide May 4. Robert Downey … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘The Avengers’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday February 29, 2012 @ 11:23am PSTTags: Disney, Joss Whedon, Marvel, The Avengers

The Marvel superheroes pic is written and directed by Joss Whedon, which only serves to ramp up expectations among the fanboy set. So does the cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgard and Samuel L. Jackson. Here’s the second … Read More »

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