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MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS Set For A Shock Weekend Record Of $200.3M Domestically

We've been bringing you the latest box office figures for Marvel's The Avengers ever since it opened internationally on April 25th. The past few days have seen predictions for its opening weekend in the US rise from $150 million to a now guaranteed record shattering $200 million! Read on for details.

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By Josh Wilding - 5/6/2012

Deadline confirms that Disney and Marvel Studios made a record $69.7M at the North American box office yesterday after earning an impressive $80.5M on Friday. While official figures aren't set to be released until a little later today, Joss Whedon's superhero ensemble is currently on track to add upwards of $49M to that total, making a final sum of $200M a guarantee (we'll be sure to update you when those figures come through later today or tomorrow). Basically, The Avengers has managed to do what Voldermort failed to acheieve across eight films; they have crushed Harry Potter, smashing the previous record held by The Deathly Hallows Part 2 ($169M) with ease. Sources also indicate that the worldwide total now stands at $640+M and other analysts (see below) are confirming a domestic gross of $200.3M in total.







STARRING:

Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America
Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
Chris Hemsworth as Thor
Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye
Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Ramanoff/Black Widow
Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk
Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson
Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill
Tom Hiddleston as Loki

RELEASE DATE: Out Now!
Source: Deadline
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WolvieCBM - 5/6/2012, 8:13 AM
Bloody hell. This is just INSANE!
WolvieCBM - 5/6/2012, 8:23 AM
Early estimates are saying $200.3 million!!! Crazy, crazy, crazy!
TheSkywalkingKnight - 5/6/2012, 8:25 AM
o______________O

:O
Irons - 5/6/2012, 8:27 AM
It has an outside shot at Titanic in the US...
TheSkywalkingKnight - 5/6/2012, 8:31 AM
I never thought numbers would make me jizz myself! BUT I just did!
danyu - 5/6/2012, 8:37 AM
See? This is what I've been talking about. Dark Knight Rises has a lot to do Domestically and at the Foreign Box Office to compete with Avengers numbers.

Of course Dark Knight Rises will make a lot of money, but I'm still skeptical it can do more than Avengers numbers while sorta competing with Spider-Man and also having no Joker.

Just doesn't seem possible to me.

Basically, I'm saying. "I told you so."
kevberg - 5/6/2012, 8:37 AM
I Don't think, when the final totals are in , that it'll do 200 million...but it'll be close. the @00 figure is an estimate and rarely do they actually meet estimates. its usually slighly short .
kevberg - 5/6/2012, 8:37 AM
Thats is to say... it do quite nicely. :)
Name - 5/6/2012, 8:38 AM
Youd think some of this money was coming to us the way we're reacting. This is unprecedened though. To potentially beat the last HP film is huge. Honestly didnt expect this, completely warranted though on the final product. Want to see it a third time. Joss Whedon and all involved are something else.
Irons - 5/6/2012, 8:39 AM
Yeah TDKR has it's work cut out for it... even if it sold the same amount of tickets as The Avengers it would probably wind up around 170-175.
BruceLeroy - 5/6/2012, 8:42 AM
This exceeded everyone's expectations. Quality wise and now box office wise. And the thing is, this movie truly deserved it.

I can't wait to see all the crow eaters and detractors trying to explain this feat away.

Marvel deserves every amount of praise they will receive. Congrats to Marvel and I hope WB is taking notice.
LucasMend - 5/6/2012, 8:43 AM
Lets try to be on the all time list now avengers!, at least at the top five!
TheSkywalkingKnight - 5/6/2012, 8:44 AM
kevberg:
SmellofDuty - 5/6/2012, 8:44 AM
That's great! Glad I contributed and I'll do it again!
figuresmaniac - 5/6/2012, 8:44 AM
well deserved....
TheSkywalkingKnight - 5/6/2012, 8:46 AM
Your move WB!
7166charlie - 5/6/2012, 8:46 AM
Good grief that is huge and well deserved your move indeed batman. Now let's make sure avengers topples avatar people haha
luffycapri - 5/6/2012, 8:46 AM
yeah baby
OmanTortuga - 5/6/2012, 8:46 AM
This was easily one of the best movies I have ever seen! I have already seen it twice, once in IMAX 3D and once in regular and both times I was just blown away! Being a Marvel Comic reader for over 20 years now, it was like seeing images right out of my favorite books come to life! Thank you Marvel!
Ric - 5/6/2012, 8:46 AM
200M+ ??? holy [frick] :0
SentinelofLiberty - 5/6/2012, 8:48 AM
Does anyone have a screencap of the scene at the end, when the team is surrounding Loki in Stark Tower? That is an awesome shot....
kevberg - 5/6/2012, 8:49 AM
just saying, usually totals average down, not up, form initial estimates.

hey even if it pulls 180-190..its still colossal.
danyu - 5/6/2012, 8:49 AM
I'm just happy that this pretty much means we're guaranteed a Marvel Cinematic Universe for much longer than what is already probably planned by Marvel.

Also, since I liked the movie so much, Marvel make take more cues from it and add more action in the rest of their movies! Of course that last part may be me hoping.
TH3TRUTH007 - 5/6/2012, 8:49 AM
HA HA! SUCK IT! FAIRY POTTER!! you little wizard be-atch
SuspenseSmith - 5/6/2012, 8:49 AM
It's budget was 220 mil. One weekend they break even, not counting international money. And now there will be repeat showing for the next few weeks. One billion plus easily.
SuspenseSmith - 5/6/2012, 8:50 AM
30 of that 200 million is mine. lol. 3 times for me.
WorldsGreatestdetective - 5/6/2012, 8:50 AM
3D prices of course give The Avengers an edge. But TDKR can match this or come close I'm predicting 180-190 million for TDKR though. I think though at the end TDKR will have the legs to out gross the Avengers by the end of the summer. We'll see how it goes.
Necrophobos - 5/6/2012, 8:50 AM
Just yesterday I said that by next weekend, this could gross upward of 350 million. Guess that was on the low side. Also, now I think that when it's all said and done, it could reach as high as 2 billion worldwide.

What movie will reach again this number, and when? Care to guess guys?
Dev7 - 5/6/2012, 8:51 AM
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=avengers11.htm

200 Million Opening Weekend!!!!

This is going to make 2 Billion + worldwide if it continues like that.
rocky - 5/6/2012, 8:52 AM
Let's try to make it the only ever film to do 100mil+ in its second weekend.
Saw it twice, will see it twice next weekend
abuleban - 5/6/2012, 8:52 AM
Goddamn amazing. Thank you Joss, thank you Marvel!
danyu - 5/6/2012, 8:52 AM
@kevberg

Actually these numbers lean closer to confirmation than just rough estimates. But I get what you're trying to say. It's all good.
SuspenseSmith - 5/6/2012, 8:53 AM
The movie will steamroll through Battleshit, mark my words. It'll probably finally die down by the time Prometheus comes out in June.
SuspenseSmith - 5/6/2012, 8:54 AM
You know what this means: DC/WB is going to be craving that success and will do everything in their power now to make the Justice League happen.
Irons - 5/6/2012, 8:54 AM
@Necrophobos

Who knows, maybe Avengers 3 goes for 300 million. Just 10 years ago Spider-Man was the first to go over 100 million.
djohnpi - 5/6/2012, 8:54 AM
OH YEA cause this movie was EPIC what now BATS WHAT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
danyu - 5/6/2012, 8:55 AM
That Prometheus trailer would be awesome if it didn't do that stupid flickering thing on the screen.
danyu - 5/6/2012, 8:56 AM
I think DC wanted to see what financial success Marvel would have before committing budget wise to anything.
drykillogic22 - 5/6/2012, 8:56 AM
It deserves every cent..
THORGodOfThunder - 5/6/2012, 8:57 AM
YEAAAA BUDDYYYYY
SleazyJonesDC - 5/6/2012, 8:58 AM
Domestically
Seejay - 5/6/2012, 8:58 AM
"
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $200,300,000 31.2%
+ Foreign: $441,500,000 68.8%
= Worldwide: $641,800,000
"

- Box Office Mojo

A production budget of 220 million.

Gives incentives for Marvel to invest even more in Thor 2, Captain America 2, Iron Man 3. Etc.
Amazo - 5/6/2012, 8:59 AM
Why are you so obsessed with Box-office? It never takes into account the feelings of those who've seen it,good or bad.Only bums on seats.Billions of people fly by plane,doesn't mean they enjoyed the experience! Get over the money factor people.
Saying that,I did enjoy the movie alot!.But perfect it isn't.And after 3 viewings I've already run out of reasons to watch it again.A lack of character depth may be why...
figuresmaniac - 5/6/2012, 9:00 AM
SuperSoldierG - 5/6/2012, 9:01 AM
SWEET
Amazo - 5/6/2012, 9:01 AM
Also,quit comparing DC's movie output with Marvels.Marvel have an entire independant studio to pump out their movies.DC has to share it's schedule with every other movie Warners decides to put out that year.It's not a fair comparrison at all.
marvel72 - 5/6/2012, 9:01 AM
f*ck me,i didn't expect that,i knew it would do well i predicted $850,000,000 but it looks like its gonna pass that.

my predictions

1st the amazing spider-man (anything from $850,000,000 to a billion)

2nd the avengers ($850,000,000,i maybe wrong)

3rd the dark knight rises ($750-£850,000,000)
Necrophobos - 5/6/2012, 9:02 AM
@Irons

If things go like this, but can such a number even be possible? 300 is unthinkable. In the first day of release, it should outgross Iron Man 2's opening weekend.

Anyway, I'm curios what number it will pull tomorrow. Can it beat Spider-Man 2? And if it can, like Rocky said, could the next weekend see the first film in history to gross over 100 million in it's second week? Again...is this even possible? And what if it only drops 30% to 40%? That's insane. Or is it?
deadpoolstaco - 5/6/2012, 9:02 AM
such a great film
Linta - 5/6/2012, 9:03 AM
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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