AVENGERS Opening Weekend - $200,300,000.00

[emeraldknight47]

This is according to Box Office Mojo (and I have no idea whether it takes into account adjustments for inflation). Even though I gain nothing from this venture, I'm tickled s**tless, again, that a movie based on a comic has the biggest opening weekend of all time!!! Now if this doesn't give Joss some well-deserved accolades, I don't know what will (and this doesn't even take Sunday into account yet)...

[clemso]

Good bye Harry Potter .... but wait! The weekend isn't over yet?

[toys2cool]

is that the record?

[Bruce Banner]

Onwards... to victory!

[clemso]

is that the record?

Yes, it would be the record by some distance. Harry Potter Deathly Hallows pt 2 holds the record at $169 mill at the moment. Disney Marvel are also predicting a box office of $641 Worldwide so far.

[emeraldknight47]

What I find SO astounding about the success of not only THE AVENGERS, but at the success of movies based off comics in general is that, when I was kid growing up (in upper Elementary, Middle and High School) I, and the kids like me who read comics, were tortured mercilessly for reading "funny books" and now they're a HUGE market theatrically. It's funny how the world changes in thirty someodd years....

[emeraldknight47]

Onwards... to victory!

http://cdn.ifanboy.com/wp-content/up...avengers-2.jpg

Love the classics, BB!!!

[Operation:Mego]

Impressive! And let's remember: it's not even Sunday yet!

[emeraldknight47]

Impressive! And let's remember: it's not even Sunday yet!

::laffs::

Well, technically, it IS Sunday, O:M, but we just don't know what today's grosses will be. I'm thinking that THE AVENGERS will probably wind up with a full weekend gross somewhere north of 220 million, which is a HUGE haul for a single weekend (and, incidentally, kinda pays for the movie in one weekend, as if it hadn't already been paid for by all the cash from overseas)....

[Operation:Mego]

::laffs::

Well, technically, it IS Sunday, O:M, but we just don't know what today's grosses will be. I'm thinking that THE AVENGERS will probably wind up with a full weekend gross somewhere north of 220 million, which is a HUGE haul for a single weekend (and, incidentally, kinda pays for the movie in one weekend, as if it hadn't already been paid for by all the cash from overseas)....

Whoops, I meant that Sunday's profit's haven't been counted yet since it has until midnight to get higher. I didn't mean to say that an entire day didn't happen, I'm just still living on Saturday time.

Edit: It's now a Yahoo article, so that makes it official. :

Box Office Shocker: 'Avengers' Opens to Record-Shattering $200.3 Million - Yahoo! Movies

[samurainoir]

Between this, and the licensing merch they will undoubtably sell, it looks like Disney's bounced back from John Carter quite well and will have a profitable year (at least in terms of the movie division... Particularly if Brave does well with the little girl market)

[madmarva]

While Thor and the Cap movie did pretty well last summer, the Avengers success should also really juice the sequels. They won't do Avengers business, but I'm guessing they will do better than the original films.

[Earth 2 Chris]

^Good point.

I added to the till again today. This time took the wife and daughter too, since I knew it was okay for her minus a few brief eye cover-ups.

I'm happy to see it do well to. It DESERVES it. It's a damn fine movie, comic adaptation or no. It's fun, well-written and well-acted. The real deal for sure.

Chris

[The Toyroom]

F'in awesome movie! I was blown away! #1 all time comic book movie (with apologies to Superman The Movie, Batman '89 and The Dark Knight)!

[Operation:Mego]

There was an idea; to make a superhero movie; that was so good; it made all others that came before it look like ****; with that movie; came; The Avengers!