The Avengers The Avengers Box-Office Prediction Thread - Part 5

[PokeJ]

The Avengers now stands at 1.016 billion after Tuesday. Should be number 4 all time after this weekend!

 

[Spider-Vader]

Are you serious with this comment? Say what you want about the movie but it's baffling how anyone can think Titanic or even Avatar was talentless filmmaking considering the scope of both projects.

Compared to his earlier films, yeah they suck. They DEFINITELY don't deserve to be the top two grossing movies of all-time.

 

[Quasimod0]

The Avengers now stands at 1.016 billion after Tuesday. Should be number 4 all time after this weekend!

Wow!!!

 

[Quasimod0]

Yes, but I was just correcting that particular statement. Nothing more.

No problem. I was just askin

 

[warhorse78]

Are you serious with this comment? Say what you want about the movie but it's baffling how anyone can think Titanic or even Avatar was talentless filmmaking considering the scope of both projects.

I agree, especially with Titanic. Throw the romance aside, the movie is excellent, and portrays to horrors and beauty of that ship, like no other movie. The attention to detail throughout that movie, takes heaps of talent and scope.

 

[flickchick85]

I'm not a big Cameron fan, but Titanic deserved it's success, imo. Cheesy dialogue aside, it was a grand, old-fashioned, sweeping epic made with new-fashioned technology that was an extremely emotional journey, and it made true movie stars out of its talented leads. And it was about a powerful, infamous true story in our history to boot. It's no mystery to me how it was able to resonate with audiences of all ages/demographics.

Avatar's success, on the other hand, still kinda baffles me, tbh. Technological wonder aside, I did not find the story OR lead characters to hit any of those "emotional involvement" buttons that Titanic did at all.

 

[Tony Stark]

Movies will either make money or they won't. Doesn't mean I have to like them. I loath Titanic, but it certainly deserved the money it got. I mean it was no. 1 for like what 15 weeks?

I haven't seen that movie since I saw it in the theater in '98, but my one LOL memory of that movie was the scene where Leo goes to do the drawing of Kate, and she comes in and takes off her robe. The moment the robe hit the floor, in a packed house there was one guy two rows in front of me who started clapping, and immediately the audience burst out in laughter and cheering. Probably not the reaction Cameron was thinking of, but I laughed so hard I nearly peed my pants.

 

[Stark Bauer]

Let's stay on topic. TA made $7,923,789 on Monday and in the process, leapfrogged Spider-Man 2, LOTR 3 and Star Wars Episode 3! It currently stands at #15 on the All time DOM BO with $380,995,436.

 

[psylockolussus]

This movie is definitely gonna surpass the $500 million mark in the domestic box-office!

 

[Iceman]

Tuesday's top movies: 1. THE AVENGERS $8.5M ($389M), 2. DARK SHADOWS $2.5M ($34M), 3. THINK LIKE A MAN $500k ($82M)

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Up from Monday's figure

 

[Mysteryman]

I think DS did slightly better overseas, not that it matters.

 

[pyromaniac]

I enjoy watching the B.O. figures, lol.

 

[Bim]

There was an article in one of our local newspaper yesterday where they say that TA is still going strong here, so much so that it's difficult finding a ticket, and the lines keep getting longer. And it's been out for almost 3 weeks here, so that's awesome. We're not a huge market, but i'm happy to see it's doing great here t: (Link to article - in spanish- here: http://www.eldia.com.do/espectaculo...-Vengadores-desata-una-gran-fiebre-en-el-pais). Battleship opened here last week, but doesnt really seem to be making a difference; Avengers-mania is still going strong. Dark Shadows hasnt opened here and it wont until the end of june.

 

[Iceman]

If the Tuesday figure is accurate Avengers will overtake Hunger Games as no.1 film of the year so far.

 

[Raiden]

If the Tuesday figure is accurate Avengers will overtake Hunger Games as no.1 film of the year so far.

After TA's gargantuan opening, I thought it was a foregone conclusion that it will pass THG for #1 spot in the year's box office race. Personally, I think TA will still be #1 at the end of the year, when it's all said and done.

 

[Iceman]

After TA's gargantuan opening, I thought it was a foregone conclusion that it will pass THG for #1 spot in the year's box office race. Personally, I think TA will still be #1 at the end of the year, when it's all said and done.

It was. But that doesn't mean we can't celebrate every benchmark as we pass it. Will be doing the same for $400m, $450m, $500m & every film it passes domestic/WW from now on.

 

[Doctor Jones]

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[I SEE SPIDEY]

I'm sure it will be number one again this coming weekend. I'm thinking it will do like 58-60mil, judging by the weekday numbers.

 

[Casius--J]

After TA's gargantuan opening, I thought it was a foregone conclusion that it will pass THG for #1 spot in the year's box office race. Personally, I think TA will still be #1 at the end of the year, when it's all said and done.

Agreed, I think this will be the movie of the year in terms of box office figures. Unless I'm mistaken it usually works out that ONE movie a year makes this kind of money.

 

[Liam_H]

It depends how you define "this kind of money". HP7.2 was the clear winner of last year but TF3 and POTC4 both passed $1 billion WW.

 

[Drummerdude7]

TDKR is still around the bend, but it's going to have to be really amazing to come close to this movie.

 

[Paladin-Hoss]

At the risk of sounding like a sissy...

Seeing that marvel-thank you-for the fans video...seeing all those fans around the world...

I believed in this movie right from the beginning, knew Wheddon would be the right man for the job,and i knew this movie would be a success ( though i've never expect it to be THIS succesfull!)

Well...seeing that video kinda made me choked up a bit!

We've come a loong way, baby!t:

 

[Jordanstine]

TDKR is still around the bend, but it's going to have to be really amazing to come close to this movie.

Honestly, I was one who really thought that TDKR would actually gross more than The Avengers. But at that time, I wasn't expecting The Avengers to do $200+ million on OW either.

Here were my reasons for TDKR having the higher gross (posted this back in April):

1) End of a Trilogy - Sequel of a final movie of a film trilogy usually (I would love to use always, but I just want to play it safe) do much better than it's previous two siblings.

2) Batman - More people in more countries likely know who Batman is more than any other superhero outside Superman and Spider-Man (whom a few years ago was named the most popular superhero of the 2000 decade). He's so big that people (most people at least) didn't even care that a DC writer called him out as gay. He's just that big of a character.

3) Summer July Release - It's in the middle of Summer aka no school, which means higher morning/noon and weekday totals. It's also one of the last big blockbuster of the Summer. That means it can stay longer in theaters since the Fall movie line-ups are nowhere close to gargantuan as Summer flicks. Summer-July and Winter-December are usually the Top 1 and 2 ideal months to release movies.

4) Spring Schedule Wrap-ups - TV shows wrap their seasons up in May, giving their prime time slots to films since most TV shows would be on re-runs until September begins. That gives more people reason to catch a movie in the evenings instead.

5) Less National Sports - July is the month with the least amount of National sports. In May you have the NBA Playoffs, NHL Playoffs, and the MLB. In July, it's just the MLB. Which means more sports aficionados are not stuck in stadiums or the TV screens.

6) Less Competition - It doesn't have to compete with other big movies like Prometheus, Men in Black 3, and even Battleship (whom at that time had grossed $180M overseas already). It's biggest and closest competition would likely be Total Recall or the Bourne Legacy.

 

[Drummerdude7]

6) Less Competition - It doesn't have to compete with other big movies like Prometheus, Men in Black 3, and even Battleship (whom at that time had grossed $180M overseas already). It's biggest and closest competition would likely be Total Recall or the Bourne Legacy.

ASM as well. It gets a two week jumpstart though.

 

[Mysteryman]

Honestly, I was one who really thought that TDKR would actually gross more than The Avengers. But at that time, I wasn't expecting The Avengers to do $200+ million on OW either.

Here were my reasons for TDKR having the higher gross (posted this back in April):

1) End of a Trilogy - Sequel of a final movie of a film trilogy usually (I would love to use always, but I just want to play it safe) do much better than it's previous two siblings.

2) Batman - More people in more countries likely know who Batman is more than any other superhero outside Superman and Spider-Man (whom a few years ago was named the most popular superhero of the 2000 decade). He's so big that people (most people at least) didn't even care that a DC writer called him out as gay. He's just that big of a character.

3) Summer July Release - It's in the middle of Summer aka no school, which means higher morning/noon and weekday totals. It's also one of the last big blockbuster of the Summer. That means it can stay longer in theaters since the Fall movie line-ups are nowhere close to gargantuan as Summer flicks. Summer-July and Winter-December are usually the Top 1 and 2 ideal months to release movies.

4) Spring Schedule Wrap-ups - TV shows wrap their seasons up in May, giving their prime time slots to films since most TV shows would be on re-runs until September begins. That gives more people reason to catch a movie in the evenings instead.

5) Less National Sports - July is the month with the least amount of National sports. In May you have the NBA Playoffs, NHL Playoffs, and the MLB. In July, it's just the MLB. Which means more sports aficionados are not stuck in stadiums or the TV screens.

6) Less Competition - It doesn't have to compete with other big movies like Prometheus, Men in Black 3, and even Battleship (whom at that time had grossed $180M overseas already). It's biggest and closest competition would likely be Total Recall or the Bourne Legacy.

in terms of Sports ,
We do have the olympics coming up .
I dont know if it makes a difference for TDKR,
But, I mention because I believe it is aroud the same time .