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Avengers shatters records with 200 million
Topic Started: May 6 2012, 10:35 PM (224 Views)
MarcusOrion
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Holy crap! If you read our article yesterday about the chances The Avengers had of passing the last Harry Potter film to take the domestic record, you know that even those who believed it could and would be done did not think it would be done by this much! Instead of the $175 million that was projected, The Avengers has become the first film to break what many box office watchers believed to be an unbreakable barrier – $200 million in just three days. So add “Fastest to $200 million” to The Avengers growing list of shattered records!

Here is the new domestic top five for biggest first weekends

Title Total
1 The Avengers $200.3
2 Harry Potter 7 Part 2 $169.1
3 The Dark Knight $158.4
4 The Hunger Games $152.5
5 Spider-Man 3 $151.1

I will freely admit that I didn’t imagine I’d be writing this story. Which is not to say that I did not think The Avengers would be huge; I just did not think they would get to “All-Time Record” and-then-some huge. This is just one more example of how even folks who write about the box office for a living can get it wrong. If you’re keeping track, earlier this year I didn’t think The Hunger Games would get close to the third-highest domestic opening record (topping all Twilight Saga features in the process); and just last week I couldn’t imagine that Think Like A Man would claim a second week at number one (at least, not so definitively). And that’s just 2012. The legendary run of Paul Blart: Mall Cop in 2009 still haunts me.

I have, er, assembled a list of the Marvel films that have led to this historic box office moment:

Iron Man (2008) – $98.6 mil. debut; $318.4 domestic/$585.1 worldwide
Iron Man 2 (2010) – $128.1 mil. debut; $312.4 domestic/$623.9 worldwide
The Incredible Hulk (2008) – $55.4 mil debut; $134.8 domestic/$263.4 world
Thor (2011) – $65.7 mil. debut; $181 domestic/$449.3 worldwide
Captain America (2011) – $65 mil. opening; $176.6 domestic/$368.6 worldwide

(UPDATE: according to Disney, the worldwide estimate now stands at $641.8 million in twelve days).





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Wow. 200 million in the States and Canada alone, that's insane. But I'm not surprised, I am dying to see this movie, I have a nerdgasm everytime I see a trailer or a clip.

Thoughts? Has anyone seen it? The movie has like a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so even the critics like it..
Edited by MarcusOrion, May 6 2012, 10:39 PM.
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yeh i wanna see this movie, i got the full set here and have been waiting ages for this to be made.
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I may have disliked Captain America (It was too long in my opinion), I am so excited to see all of them together. I was upset Edward Norton wouldn't be Hulk in it, but apparently Mark Ruffalo is awesome, so I am amped to see it.

#ThorIsTheBest
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suck that Twilight
and i want to see that movie so bad.
If anyone takes me I will love them forever.
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May 6 2012, 11:37 PM
suck that Twilight
and i want to see that movie so bad.
If anyone takes me I will love them forever.
-Flashes Tickets-
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5 Spider-Man 3 $151.1


What really? But that movie sucked!

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May 7 2012, 01:15 PM
5 Spider-Man 3 $151.1


What really? But that movie sucked!

Yeah, but we didn't know that until after the first weekend! All of those people, myself included, went into the movie expecting Spiderman 2. We left crying though, and with less money in our pocket.
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May 7 2012, 01:15 PM
5 Spider-Man 3 $151.1


What really? But that movie sucked!

Yes it did, but the other two was so awesome that everyone thought this one would be too, but it wasn't. Nerds everywhere were furious, including me.
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Dinky and I like to get together on warm summer nights, watch the first two and then weep softly into our popcorn, dreaming about what #3 should have been.. TOPHER GRACE HAD NO BUSINESS IN THAT FUCKING MOVIE!
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I believe they are remaking the spider man movies. MAYBE just 3 but, I heard something similar.
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