Comic Book Movies Rake in Over 3 Billion Dollars in 2009

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By grif - 1/1/2010

Astroboy 21 million
Dragonball 57 million
STREET FIGHTER:THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI 13 million
Watchmen 185 million
Star Trek 385 million
Final destination 4 152 million
X-MEN ORIGINS:WOLVERINE 373 million
Push 48 million
Whiteout 12 million
JENNIFER'S BODY 19 million
G.I. JOE:THE RISE OF COBRA 301 million
TRANSFORMERS:REVENGE OF THE FALLEN 835 million
TERMINATOR SALVATION 372 million
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS:THE SQUEAKQUEL 168 million
SHERLOCK HOLMES 93 million in the us
Saw VI 31 million
Toy Story/ Toy Story 2 in 3d 31 million
SURROGATES 61 million

If I missed anything. Let me know.

And for those curious.
Avatar 745 million
District 9 204 million

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42 Comments

	ThisFan - 1/1/2010, 12:51 AM Login to report abuse Thats a lot of money
	TheGambitFreakIsBatmanOfCBM - 1/1/2010, 3:16 AM Login to report abuse can i have some of that money? lol
	Instantclassic - 1/1/2010, 3:53 AM Login to report abuse Looks very accurate
	jazzman - 1/1/2010, 4:51 AM Login to report abuse hold on aint some of them aint comic book movies
	thedarkknight666 - 1/1/2010, 4:58 AM Login to report abuse toy story saw push Fd JENNIFER'S BODY i may be wrong but there not cbms y are they up here
	thedarkknight666 - 1/1/2010, 5:01 AM Login to report abuse great scotts jazzman your wright sorry for repeting what you said
	ThunderCougarFalconBird - 1/1/2010, 5:34 AM Login to report abuse @ Jazzman & darkknight - You'd be suprised at some of the films and even tv shows that are also comics, even Supernatural has a comic series.
	DJGemma - 1/1/2010, 7:49 AM Login to report abuse can i see some of that $??
	1chris2 - 1/1/2010, 8:32 AM Login to report abuse i liked terminator best of all of them,and x-men wolferine after that and transformers after that but those three being the best still needed work on story,and characters,and a little less action.
	jazzman - 1/1/2010, 8:36 AM Login to report abuse @grif ok i did not know Saw and Jennifer's Body have one
	dailycomicsfix - 1/1/2010, 8:39 AM Login to report abuse Totally offtopic: Soundgarden has reunited!!!!!!!!!
	GUNSMITH - 1/1/2010, 8:48 AM Login to report abuse ITS THE RECESSION I GUESS, PEOPLE WANT AN "ESCAPE"
	Minotauro - 1/1/2010, 9:20 AM Login to report abuse I predict by 2014 the fad dies down..
	ThisFan - 1/1/2010, 9:21 AM Login to report abuse @grif doesnt avatar have a comic book on its way?
	Sonny - 1/1/2010, 9:26 AM Login to report abuse Final destination was a comic ?
	jjmeylar - 1/1/2010, 9:26 AM Login to report abuse Chun Li only got 13 mil? You know, I really liked that film. suits up in War Machine armor and prepares to be bombed by following posts
	dailycomicsfix - 1/1/2010, 9:29 AM Login to report abuse @grif..great news indeed!!! @Minotauro..you mean CBM's? If so, I respectfully disagree. Comic books have almost single handedly saved Hollywood’s ass. They have just recently realized this untapped wealth of ideas for film. Prior to CBM's Hollywood was cannibalizing themselves by remaking bad 70's TV shows. For as long as Hollywood needs ideas for film they will continually dip into the fertile well that is comic books.
	Minotauro - 1/1/2010, 9:49 AM Login to report abuse @Axl - Probably..
	Betty - 1/1/2010, 10:47 AM Login to report abuse grif-- You made an article?!
	foxfan - 1/1/2010, 11:16 AM Login to report abuse idk it's hard for me to call some of these movies CBMs. how should we define a CBM? perhaps a movie whose origin is in comic books? chun li, for example, has her origin in a video game (unless i've overlooked something). but, if the movie was taken directly from a graphic novel or something, i'd say "okay, that's a CBM." but i'm thinkin' chun li is more like, well, a video-game-movie. right? not trying to argue, just some food for thought. like to know what others think.
	Phinehas - 1/1/2010, 11:48 AM Login to report abuse I suppose that there is a general assumption that such products as Street Fighter or Alvin and the Chipmunks find their repective demographics with CBMers.
	LEEE777 - 1/1/2010, 12:25 PM Login to report abuse GRIF @ Dude they may have comics but most ain't classed as CBM's if the comic comes out after the movie or the comics from a cartoon or something, anyway nice to know what all them movies made! Happy New Years!!
	flames809 - 1/1/2010, 1:10 PM Login to report abuse saw g.i.joe and avatar in the movies and saw [frick]ing district 9 in the movies lucky i didn't pay for the tickets
	Benji - 1/1/2010, 1:30 PM Login to report abuse avatar [frick]'n blows the only reason that it made so much money is cause the advertised the shit out of it. when you push something that hard people are gonna have to go see it. the seven hundred and forty something people that saw it probably thought it was garbage
	LEEE777 - 1/1/2010, 2:08 PM Login to report abuse Benji @ your thinking sherlock holmes lol!
	DDD - 1/1/2010, 2:23 PM Login to report abuse Fantastic Axl@ Soundgarden's reunited! Avatar and District 9 are in no way shape or form a CBM but I guess we're doin' all sci-fi on here now! I still don't think Avatar is much of a movie and I hate 3-D with a passion! My eyes have a problem with it and its a cheap parlor trick to make you think a movie is better than it really is! Good movies don't need 3-D!! And I'm liking Worthington less and less with each movie he does but other than that....HAPPY NEW YEAR!
	Gose - 1/1/2010, 2:27 PM Login to report abuse James Cameron for the next SPIDERMAN movie ... Happy New Year !!!
	CRITIC17 - 1/1/2010, 2:49 PM Login to report abuse @DDD: Clash of the Titans looks pretty good though... @Gose: Hell yeah to that!!! @BulliedNerd: Don't be an asshole. Unless you were just kidding. @Flames: Why man?? Avatar and District 9 ROCKED!!!!
	valeriesghost - 1/1/2010, 3:02 PM Login to report abuse @AXL SOUNDGARDEN!! YIIPPPEEEEE
	DDD - 1/1/2010, 3:15 PM Login to report abuse TheCritic@ I'm not saying that Avatar is a piece of crap I'm just saying 3-D is not necessary if a movie is done well. My eyes have trouble with 3-D so hopefully they will have a non 3-D form of Avatar on blue ray! Movies for me at home are not that bad 'cause I have my company's awesome surround sound theater speaker prototypes in my living room- A-V room and a huge widescreen! Its almost like being at the movies with the screen and our speakers are superior and louder than theater speakers. They're frightening in the small room of my A-V-room/living room when I turn them up loud! Our subwoofer is 2000 watts into 1 ohm impedance, which would be equivalent to 8000 watts into 8 ohms, which 8-ohms is the norm. Its a monstrous subwoofer! lol
	lvlheaded - 1/1/2010, 3:29 PM Login to report abuse i would say there is a big difference between comic book movies and movie comic books.
	JoshWilding - 1/1/2010, 4:35 PM Login to report abuse Wow, thats one hell of a lot of cash! Good article grif! GUYS, CHECK OUT MY THUNDERBOLTS FAN CAST!!! http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/joshw24/news/?a=13326
	Pojack - 1/1/2010, 5:41 PM Login to report abuse Yeah calling Sherlock Holmes a comic book movie is a little bit of stretch, he is a public domain character with a lot of different interpretations in current media.
	Nightwing09 - 1/1/2010, 5:46 PM Login to report abuse WOW
	jjmeylar - 1/1/2010, 7:58 PM Login to report abuse Since when are the "Saw" films comic book movies? Same for "Toy Story", "Sherlock Holmes", "Street Fighter", and quite a few others.
	jusme6 - 1/1/2010, 10:14 PM Login to report abuse @JJMeylar: I'm pretty sure the concept for the Sherlock Holmes movie came from a Sherlock Holms comic book. Street Fighter MAY have been a comic book, but to say the same for Saw or Toy Story would be a huge stretch. Wow! Transformers dominated the hell out this year.
	KeepItReal - 1/1/2010, 11:24 PM Login to report abuse hey everyone.. JJMeylar & jusme6: ikr! :D
	CRITIC17 - 1/2/2010, 12:29 AM Login to report abuse @DDD: Its funny that I actually understood some of what you just said... ;) Nuff said though man!
	parascythe - 1/2/2010, 8:24 AM Login to report abuse i wonder how much iron man 2 would do...
	astromerc - 1/2/2010, 2:14 PM Login to report abuse I only counted 6 true comic book movies. This was not a good year for comic book movies 2010-12 that is going to be the real test. With back to back stuff coming out ( IM2,Thor,Green Lantern,Avengers,etc).
	thegreek - 1/3/2010, 1:28 AM Login to report abuse com'on WB/ DC ... Look at the figures.... now go make WW / Flash / and Superman/ and THUNDERCATS...
	Ryguy88 - 1/3/2010, 1:58 PM Login to report abuse Why does it matter if it is in a comic?? Can't we just talk about stuff that may be interesting to people who may be interested in comics??

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