"The Avengers" Becomes Top Comic Book Adaptation Worldwide

[CBR News]

Marvel's "The Avengers" has overtaken "The Dark Knight" to become the highest grossing comic book adaptation worldwide, with over $1 billion in box office take to date.


Full article here.

[jediracer]

In other news, water is wet.

[jediracer]

Is it too early to start speculating the gross of the DVD/Blu-ray release? With over 30 minutes of extra footage, it's bound to fly off shelves.

If i'm not mistaken, I believe Avatar's dvd/blu-ray gross to date is about $800,000,000(?) Anyone have some hard facts on that?

[rawhidekid]

Well deserved. Great movie for everyone.

[Kick-Ass]

Marvel has officially crushed DC in all arenas. Well played Marvel. My signature stands prouder than ever this day. RIP Dark Knight. RIP.

[rauj13]

I thought that they weren't releasing the cut footage?

[Alex]

Yknow, the next batman film could still beat it.

[Bret]

Marvel has officially crushed DC in all arenas. Well played Marvel. My signature stands prouder than ever this day. RIP Dark Knight. RIP.

In DC's favor though, they have yet to make a team-up movie, Justice League for instance, which would finally have Batman and Superman in the same flick, something fans have been begging for longer than an Avengers movie. A movie full of popular characters is usually going to outdo one that has only one. So it's really unfair to compare until they do that.

Yknow, the next batman film could still beat it.

It could, but it's doubtful. TDK had the whole Heath Ledger incident and acting praise going for it. TDKR only seems to have the "well it's directed by Nolan, so we can't go wrong" going for it. I do expect it to be a "better" movie than Avengers, but it's not one kids can easily watch or even sit through. It's more of a grown up series whereas Avengers audiences had kids running up and down the isles in many theaters.

[Lancerman]

Eh most highly promoted films with 3D ticket prices did very well and broke a million. Avatar crushed everyone with that. It's like inflation added onto inflation.

[Thad]

Eh most highly promoted films with 3D ticket prices did very well and broke a million. Avatar crushed everyone with that. It's like inflation added onto inflation.

Yes, this.

Dark Knight showed up in IMAX with inflated ticket prices, but (at least in my area) that was months after its initial release and the bulk of its ticket sales, and on fewer screens than 3D Avengers. Plus even the standard ticket price has gone up a couple bucks since then.

Which isn't to say that Avengers won't, by the end of its run, sell more tickets than The Dark Knight -- it almost certainly will. But it bears keeping in mind that "HIGHEST-GROSSING FILM EVER!!!!" numbers are drastically inflated by the fact that film ticket prices are going up faster than, well, pretty much anything else except comic book prices.

Remember, if we adjust for ticket price, the biggest movie of all time is still Gone With the Wind.

Doesn't make for a very exciting horse race when you put it like that, does it?

[verslibre]

Marvel has officially crushed DC in all arenas. Well played Marvel. My signature stands prouder than ever this day. RIP Dark Knight. RIP.

Your signature is unintentionally funny.

[verslibre]

In DC's favor though, they have yet to make a team-up movie, Justice League for instance, which would finally have Batman and Superman in the same flick, something fans have been begging for longer than an Avengers movie. A movie full of popular characters is usually going to outdo one that has only one. So it's really unfair to compare until they do that.

That will be the real acid test: to see if a film with Bats, Supes, WW, GL, and (presumably) Cyborg and Hawkman/Black Canary performs as well as better. There's no way to tell till it happens. Batman and Superman remain two of the most well-known comics characters worldwide. There's no reason to not assume a movie like that won't make big bucks. It's all up to who writes it, who directs it, and what kind of budget it will get.

[verslibre]

Yknow, the next batman film could still beat it.

It won't because it's going to be much darker than the straight-laced affair that is The Avengers. It's probably going to leave a bad taste in many a mouth because Nolan refuses to compromise his vision. His directing style doesn't look like it was influenced by Luca$, either. All the better in my book.

[Acecool]

Not that I do not wish the best for batman, as I am sure it will be a good movie. So many people said that batman would out perform Avengers on this message board as well as other places. It was practically a consensus.

We still do not know how batman will ultimately do. It may end up beating the Avengers.

However if it doesn't, I just want to say, I totally called this. For all the reasons mentioned above, the fact that it is a team movie, it was a very novel concept, etc..

[Sighphi]

Marvel has officially crushed DC in all arenas. Well played Marvel. My signature stands prouder than ever this day. RIP Dark Knight. RIP.

Wow you really like Marvel.
Anyway, most of the money this movie has made came from the foreign market.
In the US market TDK is 3rd overall behind Avatar and Titanic while Avengers is down at 15.