paperheart Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 The international market is close to double the domestic market. Anybody else notice Iron Man 3 has a bigger domestic and worldwide box office, than Avengers:Age of Ultron? Age of Ultron is going to blow by IM3- a five year old could figure that out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted May 20, 2015 Author Share Posted May 20, 2015 It needs to. Marvel had to invest $50 MM more into Avengers 2 than it spent on Iron Man 3. And if we are fairly comparing like dollars, then Avengers 2 has to do $85,971,295 more to match Iron Man 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComicConnoisseur Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 The international market is close to double the domestic market. Anybody else notice Iron Man 3 has a bigger domestic and worldwide box office, than Avengers:Age of Ultron? Age of Ultron is going to blow by IM3- a five year old could figure that out. The point I found interesting was either Iron Man 3 was more popular than we thought or Avengers has lost a little off it`s fastball. I would have thought Avengers: Age of Ultron would have steamed rolled over Iron Man 3. Yeah,Avengers: Age of Ultron is going to beat Iron Man 3, but it`s a lot closer than I thought. Which leads me to a conclusion that Iron Man is the most popular Avenger by far. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperheart Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 The international market is close to double the domestic market. Anybody else notice Iron Man 3 has a bigger domestic and worldwide box office, than Avengers:Age of Ultron? Age of Ultron is going to blow by IM3- a five year old could figure that out. The point I found interesting was either Iron Man 3 was more popular than we thought or Avengers has lost a little off it`s fastball. I would have thought Avengers: Age of Ultron would have steamed rolled over Iron Man 3. Yeah,Avengers: Age of Ultron is going to beat Iron Man 3, but it`s a lot closer than I thought. Which leads me to a conclusion that Iron Man is the most popular Avenger by far. AoU will do $250MM more than IM3 WW. that's 1/4 of a billion DOLLARS. that's close? ok, so the Avengers franchise looks like it tops out at $1.5BB. there are still only 2 movies that have grossed higher. maybe domestically, there is some superhero movie exhaustion setting in but int'l is picking up the slack for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted May 21, 2015 Author Share Posted May 21, 2015 Iron Man 3-Avengers 2 gap: $80,620,817 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperheart Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, meanwhile, took in an estimated $45.8M in its fifth weekend from 91 territories representing approximately 95% of the international market. The film opens in Japan on July 4. That brings the foreign total to $859.8M including $210M in China where it opened May 12. Combined with Ultron’s North American estimated tally through today of $404.065M, the superhero cluster flick will have taken in $1.263.865B worldwide, which through Monday is expected to hit $1.270B. looks like AoU will fall just shy of Avengers. 1.45-1.5BB WW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comic_memories Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, meanwhile, took in an estimated $45.8M in its fifth weekend from 91 territories representing approximately 95% of the international market. The film opens in Japan on July 4. That brings the foreign total to $859.8M including $210M in China where it opened May 12. Combined with Ultron’s North American estimated tally through today of $404.065M, the superhero cluster flick will have taken in $1.263.865B worldwide, which through Monday is expected to hit $1.270B. looks like AoU will fall just shy of Avengers. 1.45-1.5BB WW. exactly.. a HUGE hit worldwide and another win for Marvel/Disney AOU is still fresh. and has a ways to go before its tally is complete. Of the top EIGHT biggest grossing movies of all time, .... Marvel has 3 of them ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted May 27, 2015 Author Share Posted May 27, 2015 AoU really took off over the weekend. Wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kagenish Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Warner Bros. Film Chief on 'Wonder Woman,' J.K. Rowling's 'Fantastic Beasts' -script and How DC Will Compete With Marvel "We have a great strategy for the DC films, which is to take these beloved characters and put them in the hands of master filmmakers and make sure they all coordinate with each other. You'll see the difference when you see Batman v. Superman, Suicide Squad, Justice League and all the things that we are working on." "There is intensity and a seriousness of purpose to some of these characters. The filmmakers who are tackling these properties are making great movies about superheroes; they aren't making superhero movies. When you're trying to make a good movie, you tackle interesting philosophies and character development. There's also humor, which is an important part." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted June 14, 2015 Author Share Posted June 14, 2015 $157 MM short of Furious 7 for All-Time Worldwide Box Office #4 spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted July 18, 2015 Author Share Posted July 18, 2015 WOW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted July 19, 2015 Author Share Posted July 19, 2015 And so it begins... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewEnglandGothic Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 Fans of Pixar films owe Howard The Duck a debt of gratitude then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted July 19, 2015 Author Share Posted July 19, 2015 Updated the DC-Marvel box office summary over 67 movies. Since there have been so many posts about who should declare cinema victory over the past few years, maybe it is worth taking a look at the production run of both companies. It doesn't take deep analysis to identify Marvel as the solid quality leader at this time, though Warner is promising large growth over the coming years. The 1978 to present period in DC and Marvel-based movies is comprised of 67 movies. Looking at all included movies as a whole, they had a budget of $7,624,000,000 leading to a worldwide box office revenue total of $24,181,207,391 using USD from their given year of release. If adjusted for 2015 inflation, the overall worldwide box office revenue total is $28,221,880,479. Some movies had a very limited cinema release (Captain America from 1990 mainly appeared in UK theaters and a few other limited international markets), and three movies either were a total direct to video (DTV) release with one being a partial DTV. With the Wes Craven 'Swamp Thing' movie from 1982, it is very unclear what true budget and box office results were noted for the time. Some sites like IMDb mistakenly reference numbers from 'The Return of Swamp Thing' and cannot confirm the results. Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man are still actively showing in theaters as of this update. Note: Movie budget and box office results were taken from either Box Office Mojo, IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes or through researching interviews with creators that spoke to the final results (Roger Corman mentioning his total budget for 'The Fantastic Four' was one million dollars). In the case of 'The Fantastic Four' where Marvel purchased the movie for an additional few million dollars so as not to have it released to the public, this has not been included in the final analysis. %20really%3F%20Arad%22&f=false'>Los Angeles Magazine, March 2005 I'll be looking at this dataset from different analysis points to determine the success, failures and break-evens of both companies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatsby77 Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 any reason you're excluding Big Hero 6 from the above? Seems far more canonical than say...Steel, given that it's a Marvel Studios production, had input from Joe Quesada & Jeph Leob, and featured a Stan Lee cameo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewEnglandGothic Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 any reason you're excluding Big Hero 6 from the above? Seems far more canonical than say...Steel, given that it's a Marvel Studios production, had input from Joe Quesada & Jeph Leob, and featured a Stan Lee cameo. The original Men in Black had the Marvel brand at the end of it's credits too. (ahem) (cough, cough) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted July 19, 2015 Author Share Posted July 19, 2015 any reason you're excluding Big Hero 6 from the above? Seems far more canonical than say...Steel, given that it's a Marvel Studios production, had input from Joe Quesada & Jeph Leob, and featured a Stan Lee cameo. Big Hero 6 Big Hero 6 is a 2014 American 3D computer-animated superhero comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures—the first superhero film in Disney's animated features canon and the 54th overall. The film is inspired by the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. 'Inspired by' - not 'based on'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted July 19, 2015 Author Share Posted July 19, 2015 The original Men in Black had the Marvel brand at the end of it's credits too. (ahem) (cough, cough) As an afterthought due to its purchase of Malibu. Men in Black is a 1997 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, produced by Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald and starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. The film was based on Lowell Cunningham's The Men in Black comic book series, originally published by Marvel and Malibu Comics, with a plot following two agents of a secret organization called Men in Black who supervise extraterrestrial lifeforms who live on Earth and hide their existence from ordinary humans. The Men in Black (with Sandy Carruthers, three-issue miniseries, Aircel Comics, January–March 1990) The Men in Black Book II (with Sandy Carruthers & Scott Dutton, three-issue miniseries, Aircel Comics, May–July 1991) Men In Black: Far Cry (with Dietrich Smith, one-shot, Marvel Comics, Aug. 1997) Men in Black: Movie Adaptation (with Rod Whigham, one-shot, Marvel Comics, Oct. 1997) Men In Black: Retribution (with Rod Whigham, one-shot, Marvel Comics, Dec. 1997) They threw it out there as a Marvel production as comics were pushed out at the same time under the Marvel brand. But this truly came from Aircel before anyone knew Marvel had a 'hand' in this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewEnglandGothic Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 any reason you're excluding Big Hero 6 from the above? Seems far more canonical than say...Steel, given that it's a Marvel Studios production, had input from Joe Quesada & Jeph Leob, and featured a Stan Lee cameo. Big Hero 6 Big Hero 6 is a 2014 American 3D computer-animated superhero comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures—the first superhero film in Disney's animated features canon and the 54th overall. The film is inspired by the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. 'Inspired by' - not 'based on'. I actually watched a lot of this movie just a little while ago, while waiting to shoot black bear and blue heron pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewEnglandGothic Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 The original Men in Black had the Marvel brand at the end of it's credits too. (ahem) (cough, cough) As an afterthought due to its purchase of Malibu. Men in Black is a 1997 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, produced by Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald and starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. The film was based on Lowell Cunningham's The Men in Black comic book series, originally published by Marvel and Malibu Comics, with a plot following two agents of a secret organization called Men in Black who supervise extraterrestrial lifeforms who live on Earth and hide their existence from ordinary humans. The Men in Black (with Sandy Carruthers, three-issue miniseries, Aircel Comics, January–March 1990) The Men in Black Book II (with Sandy Carruthers & Scott Dutton, three-issue miniseries, Aircel Comics, May–July 1991) Men In Black: Far Cry (with Dietrich Smith, one-shot, Marvel Comics, Aug. 1997) Men in Black: Movie Adaptation (with Rod Whigham, one-shot, Marvel Comics, Oct. 1997) Men In Black: Retribution (with Rod Whigham, one-shot, Marvel Comics, Dec. 1997) They threw it out there as a Marvel production as comics were pushed out at the same time under the Marvel brand. But this truly came from Aircel before anyone knew Marvel had a 'hand' in this. OK, I thought it would be a good pricey technicality for the chart. (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
