"The Avengers" Opens to Record-Breaking $200.3 Million

[rawhidekid]

two words: well deserved

Well said. This isn't a 1 weekend and done movie either. All my friends and family loved it so word of mouth is going to give Avengers legs.

[Marvel Man]

Congrats to everyone involved!!!!! MAKE MINE MARVEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shadowraven]

I'm guessing with 220 million production budget and 150 million (at least) marketing campaign it will be considered a success. At least enough to green light Avengers 2.

The movie is already at 640M worldwide after less than 2 weeks, and will be over $1 billion within the next two weeks. I doubt Disney will have any issues recouping their investment if they haven't already. Not to mention all of the merchandising money they will rake in.

[whiteshark]

Great news.
I watched it recently and thought was beyond amazing,had a great time watching.
Hopefully this means the sequel wont take much time to be made.

[kalorama]

Great news.
I watched it recently and thought was beyond amazing,had a great time watching.
Hopefully this means the sequel wont take much time to be made.

It'll likely be the standard 2-3 year wait.

[tesh_karde]

Am I the only Marvel fan that has zero interest in this? I'm not too happy with most of what Marvel is doing right now, but the Avengers was my favorite comic as a kid and have always held a special place. That said, this just looks like crap. Not to mention I have never and will never forgive Whedon for Serenity. I'm rather obviously in the minority here, but I'm just not getting the draw.

I think you might be. It's an amazing movie. And what is wrong with Serenity, exactly? It's a fantastic movie, and a fantastic cap to the Firefly series.

[kalorama]

Am I the only Marvel fan that has zero interest in this? I'm not too happy with most of what Marvel is doing right now, but the Avengers was my favorite comic as a kid and have always held a special place. That said, this just looks like crap. Not to mention I have never and will never forgive Whedon for Serenity. I'm rather obviously in the minority here, but I'm just not getting the draw.

What was your problem with Serenity?

[DeadXMan]

What was your problem with Serenity?

Probaly like Leaf or Shepard. Frankly I thought thier deaths were great.

[mastadge]

It'll likely be the standard 2-3 year wait.

It'll likely be a little longer: they'll be fitting in a whole phase 2 of at least one more Iron Man, Thor and Cap, which takes us to Summer '14 already, plus probably at least one more character movie (another Hulk? Ant-Man finally? the long-rumored S.H.I.E.L.D. or Black Widow movie?) before making another ensemble event of it.

[ZeoVGM]

It'll likely be the standard 2-3 year wait.

2 is definitely out of the question, as Marvel already has two movies planned for that year. 2015 is probably the goal. Here's the official lineup:

May 3, 2013 - Iron Man 3
November 15, 2013 - Thor 2
April 4, 2014 - Captain America 2
May 16, 2014 - TBA

[ZeoVGM]

Am I the only Marvel fan that has zero interest in this? I'm not too happy with most of what Marvel is doing right now, but the Avengers was my favorite comic as a kid and have always held a special place. That said, this just looks like crap. Not to mention I have never and will never forgive Whedon for Serenity. I'm rather obviously in the minority here, but I'm just not getting the draw.

Serenity was amazing.

What exactly about this looks like crap? I'm especially curious after the universal praise for it has come out.

[Spideybono]

Not counting the midnight shows, Saturday was bigger than Friday. That almost never happens with action/superhero movies. So word of mouth is strong. They are already forecasting a 90million dollar weekend next weekend and I doubt that Battleship will be able to beat it on the weekend of the 18th. I believe this will be number one until Men In Black opens

[DeadXMan]

Not counting the midnight shows, Saturday was bigger than Friday. That almost never happens with action/superhero movies. So word of mouth is strong. They are already forecasting a 90million dollar weekend next weekend and I doubt that Battleship will be able to beat it on the weekend of the 18th. I believe this will be number one until Men In Black opens

From what I heard from freinds in England it's a hong kong knock off of Transformers.

[K Von Doom]

Anyone else feel some pride that the Top 3 weekend openers of all time are comic book movies? It shows that there's a lot of interest in these characters – not just from comic book readers – but from people in general.

What are the chances of them getting the film rights back for Spidey, X-Men… etc and doing a company wide crossover movie?

[Spideybono]

From what I heard from freinds in England it's a hong kong knock off of Transformers.

Oh yea, you can tell by looking at it, it looks like Transformers 3.5. And that is not a good thing