Sunday 27 May 2012

The Avengers - Earths Mightiest Box Office Money Makers



We've all seen the avengers, well if you haven‘t seen it then you should do so today. “The movie is awesome” - that’s what anybody who has seen it would say, but why? Was it because of the actors, the concept behind the movie, the fact that the movie was over hyped or is it because we all love watching superheroes fighting. What is it that made the avengers so good and how on earth did the movie manage to make over a billion dollars within a month; which I can proudly say no big Nigerian bank can make in 3 months. 

Why? What? How? When? Where?

Okay, I don’t have an answer to any of the questions posed, but here’s what I think. The movie was awesome.

The Avengers is now the new king of the opening weekend. The movie grossed an unprecedented $200.3 million in its Friday-Sunday box-office debut.
The film easily bested the opening-weekend performances of the Marvel Studios movies whose hero-stars were assembled for The AvengersIron Man ($99 million) and Iron Man 2 ($128 million); Thor ($66 million); and, Captain America ($65 million).

It blew away even the superhero-record $158.4 million posted by The Dark Knight, and raised the bar considerably for the Batman franchise's upcoming adventure, The Dark Knight Rises, due out July 20.



The Avengers made money the old-fashioned way: Everybody bought tickets.

The opening-weekend audience was evenly split between the young (under age 25) and the older (over age 25), polling data showed. It was watched by women (40 percent) almost as much as men. It worked as a date-night movie (55 percent of ticket-buyers were part of couples), and a family movie (24 percent were part of a family group). 

And then there was perhaps the quaintest thing of all: People went to see it in 3-D. 

The budget of the movie was $220 million but presently the movie has made around  $1,295,272,000 (over a $billion).

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