The Avengers The Avengers Box-Office Prediction Thread - Part 4

[Raiden]

Dark Shadows is sitting at a miserable 44% on RT now, with 113 reviews tallied. It hasn't been accorded a consensus yet, but didn't The Avengers reach consensus status with far fewer reviews? At any rate, DS hasn't impressed very many critics and its word of mouth is likely to be abysmal. It isn't likely to dent TA's numbers much if at all.


Those poor IMAX folks must be blue over the thought of having to give up so much revenue because their screens are tied up with a stinker like DS.

I'm sure they had a role in forcing WB to share the IMAX screens with Marvel because they don't want to lose all those business, agreement or not.

 

[buttercup]

Those poor IMAX folks must be blue over the thought of having to give up so much revenue because their screens are tied up with a stinker like DS.

The IMAX situation is ridiculous. In San Francisco, the only IMAX theater in the city had Wrath of the Titans playing the first week of The Avengers debut and will switch to Dark Shadows this Friday.

Wrath of the Titans grossed $460,190 last weekend, or about 0.2% of The Avengers gross.

Given how disinclined I am to drive outside the city to see the movie in in 3D IMAX (or to see Wrath at all), there goes $$ the theater could have made off me.

 

[warhorse78]

Well, all you can do is blame IMAX for this. What was going through their minds when they agreed to this contract with a movie studio, it was bound to be disastrous from the start.

So far, I'm lucky in my neck of the woods, Avengers will be sharing screens with DS. Looks like DS will get two screenings a day, and Avengers will get three. Avengers also has this new thing, called The D-Box, it's where the seats move. I have yet to sit in one of those, I find the whole concept kind of silly at the moment.

 

[flickchick85]

Well, the digital IMAX screens near me are sharing screens between DS and TA, but the REAL IMAX screens in my area (the ones in the museums) are just showing DS. I'm not sure that's entirely because of the contract though, because one of those Deadline articles mentioned that Avengers was a "digital-only" release, so if I'm understanding that correctly, I guess the IMAX theaters that only have 70mm projectors wouldn't have been able to show it anyway. I gotta say, just the thought of major movies like this having "digital-only" releases makes me sad.

 

[Xeno]

Yes. $600M is even a possibility now, though if it gets that far it'll probably be just barely.

By next Monday we'll be celebrating the billion-dollar mark, though not as merrily as the Marvel/Disney peeps. I just watched a video of Bob Iger declaring that The Avengers is not just a movie, it's a franchise, and one that will spawn other franchises ad infinitum. The future is looking bright for Marvel fans.

 

[Iceman]

I just watched a video of Bob Iger declaring that The Avengers is not just a movie, it's a franchise, and one that will spawn other franchises ad infinitum. The future is looking bright for Marvel fans.

Exactly what I want to hear! I knew there was a reason for being 'obsessed' by box office figures. Would dread to think what the statement would have been if this had tanked!

By next Monday we'll be celebrating the billion-dollar mark, though not as merrily as the Marvel/Disney peeps.

Where's that Dr Evil clip?

 

[Saitou Hajime]

Rth's daily update: Wednesday is in the 11-13m range.

 

[Iceman]

Thursday?

 

[Paladin-Hoss]

By next Monday we'll be celebrating the billion-dollar mark, though not as merrily as the Marvel/Disney peeps. I just watched a video of Bob Iger declaring that The Avengers is not just a movie, it's a franchise, and one that will spawn other franchises ad infinitum. The future is looking bright for Marvel fans.

Hmmm...the Marvel movies divison, future does looks bright.

But i'm kinda worried about what all this might means to Marvel the comic books company..

Will this means that Disney will try to exert more control? creative wise i means...

There was a rumor a while ago that Disney didn't really...approved of the MAX line, and now it's gone. Things like that.

 

[Xeno]

Hmmm...the Marvel movies divison, future does looks bright.

But i'm kinda worried about what all this might means to Marvel the comic books company..

Will this means that Disney will try to exert more control? creative wise i means...

There was a rumor a while ago that Disney didn't really...approved of the MAX line, and now it's gone. Things like that.

From what I've read of the comics in the last few years, Disney needs to take the reins and get that side of the business in order. The massive, meaningless events should be scaled back or abandoned altogether in favor of a return to basic, good storytelling. I picked up a couple of issues of the ludicrous Avengers/X-Men series and was stunned by the total lack of action and coherent plotting. Marvel Comics needs to do a hell of a lot better than it is to attract new readers and lure back people like me.

 

[R_Hythlodeus]

From what I've read of the comics in the last few years, Disney needs to take the reins and get that side of the business in order. The massive, meaningless events should be scaled back or abandoned altogether in favor of a return to basic, good storytelling. I picked up a couple of issues of the ludicrous Avengers/X-Men series and was stunned by the total lack of action and coherent plotting. Marvel Comics needs to do a hell of a lot better than it is to attract new readers and lure back people like me.

agreed. Marvel is losing long time readers for years, including me, with their current style of writing

 

[Saitou Hajime]

Thursday?

Sorry, my bad.

 

[Iceman]

Sorry, my bad.

Thanks for the numbers. Quite a wide range. Hopefully this sets up a monster weekend.

 

[Paladin-Hoss]

From what I've read of the comics in the last few years, Disney needs to take the reins and get that side of the business in order. The massive, meaningless events should be scaled back or abandoned altogether in favor of a return to basic, good storytelling. I picked up a couple of issues of the ludicrous Avengers/X-Men series and was stunned by the total lack of action and coherent plotting. Marvel Comics needs to do a hell of a lot better than it is to attract new readers and lure back people like me.

Yeah...for the first time ever, i'm slowly becoming more of a DC comics fan. Like you said, they REALLY need to scale back on all the 'events' crossovers.It's been out of control since Civil war

That said, i still feel a certain...loyalty towards marvel comics.mainly because i grew up with them.And i just can't see myself abandoning or stopped reading about the characters i care about.

My worry is, Disyney will want the comics to kind of fall in line with the movies, meaning only the Avengers or anything related to them...and X men will be supported...and the kind of stories that can be told etc etc


...or maybe i'm just getting paranoid in my old age...

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

agreed. Marvel is losing long time readers for years, including me, with their current style of writing

Same here. It also seems like the writers (and one writer in PARTICULAR) have very little knowledge of past continuity. That, or maybe they just dont care.

But it drives ME nuts, personally.

 

[R_Hythlodeus]

Same here. It also seems like the writers (and one writer in PARTICULAR) have very little knowledge of past continuity. That, or maybe they just dont care.

But it drives ME nuts, personally.

I suppose they just don't care. Because they get things wrong anyone whoever saw a comic at the newspaper stand would know.

 

[Drummerdude7]

I agree that the multitude of events needs to stop. Continuity needs to be reinstated instead of multiple events and titles that put the heroes in 3 places at once. Any "big changes" to the status quo just ends up being negated later anyway.

 

[Suzanne78]

Agree with the event burnout in the comics for the most part, but I do love the solo books. I'm really hoping that they get someone like Mark Waid or Jonathan Hickman to come in and shake up the main Avengers title. I can't believe how pointless the supposed movie friendly Avengers Assemble series is...

 

[Tony Stark]

Looks like it's 12.5 M for Thursday. Pretty decent hold going into the weekend. BOM is predicting 95.4M for the weekend, followed by 33.3M open for DS.

 

[Tony Stark]

If you take the above average gain on monday and average out Wednesday, it's performing pretty close to what IM1 did percentage wise.

 

[Rock Sexton]

By next Monday we'll be celebrating the billion-dollar mark, though not as merrily as the Marvel/Disney peeps. I just watched a video of Bob Iger declaring that The Avengers is not just a movie, it's a franchise, and one that will spawn other franchises ad infinitum. The future is looking bright for Marvel fans.

Do you have a link for that video?

 

[thalidomide]

So I guess it won't earn 1 billion at all?

 

[Docker2.0]

Same here. It also seems like the writers (and one writer in PARTICULAR) have very little knowledge of past continuity. That, or maybe they just dont care.

But it drives ME nuts, personally.

Agreed! A certain character died in another universe but yet he showed up in the Avengers comic by that same writer you are talking about with no explanation of how he survived, but I guess he will in time but knowing him, it won't happen. I honestly have cut out buying a lot of comics in the past year because of the unnecessary character killing and events. It just kills your reading of the books.


- end rant


Looks like Avengers will make a billion by Monday huh. $2Billion look reasonable?

 

[Rock Sexton]

So I guess it won't earn 1 billion at all?

..... and you came to that conclusion how?

 

[Liam_H]

So I guess it won't earn 1 billion at all?

It will just because it might not do it this weekend is no big deal.