Posted on 04/03/2019 7:55:51 PM PDT by EdnaMode
“Captain Marvel” became the 2019 box office’s first $1 billion hit on Wednesday, along with being the seventh film from Marvel Studios and the 38th film of all time to hit that 10-digit benchmark.
Unlike past Marvel Studios hits that have grossed $1 billion, “Captain Marvel” was the first to do so with a lead character who wasn’t introduced in a previous Marvel film. Even “Black Panther,” the highest-grossing film of the 2018 domestic box office, had its Wakandan superhero introduced in “Captain America: Civil War.” “Captain Marvel” did have the presence of Samuel L. Jackson’s fan favorite Nick Fury, but Captain Marvel herself was not seen on the big screen prior to this past month.
On the weekend of March 8, “Captain Marvel” opened to a spectacular $153 million domestic and $456 million global launch. Since then, the domestic total for the film has reached $358 million, passing the North American theatrical runs of 2017 Marvel films “Spider-Man: Homecoming” and “Thor: Ragnarok.” Overseas, it has grossed $645 million, with $152.3 million coming from China.
The money will continue to pour in for Marvel Studios and Disney this month as the intensely anticipated “Avengers: Endgame” — also featuring Captain Marvel — will hit theaters April 26. Analysts expect the film to top the $257.6 domestic and $630 million global opening records set last year by “Avengers: Infinity War.”
The crossover event film will open the same week in all markets worldwide, including China, which got “Infinity War” a week after the U.S. That means that “Endgame” will have an outside chance of becoming the first film in box office history to gross $1 billion by the end of its first weekend in theaters.
Meh
waiting for Shazam and Hellboy
Shazam will be fun, I think.
On line demand for tickets to “Avengers: Endgame” was so huge it crashed every major ticket web site yesterday.
Sounds like a trailer for Trumps 2020 reelection.
Interesting how everyone applauds these film openings, milestones, and profit. Where are the RATS in this? They look the other way but say everyone else must “pay their fair share,” yet have not once defined the term. Hollywood is exempt from criticism on their fantastic profits and ignored by rabid liberals because they are those very same rabid cockroaches.
Unbelievable that these adult cartoons are so popular. Say a lot about the mental state of our country.
Today’s youth truly live in a fantasy oriented world.
how much per ticket?
and do they count the ones given away for free?
o Abuse young children
o Take advantage of desperate young women and men
o Kowtow to China
o Make HUGE profits
o Live outrageous, large-carbon-footprint lifestyles
o Are guilty of every SJW microaggression
Their hypocrisy is breathtaking.
Math is hard. ;-)
I predicted at least $1 Billion on this site - not because I thought it would deserve it, or because I wanted it to succeed, but because I understood the market and the franchise: It was the penultimate episode in a 22-film arc, starring a character who would play a vital role in the culmination.
Certain frequent posters here predicted it would bomb (one particularly aggressive frequent poster asserted categorically it would top out at $300-to-350 Million - losing money); they did so, I opine, because they wanted it to bomb, and were unwilling or unable to separate their egotistical wants from an objective assessment of the industry and culture.
People who call themselves conservatives, and who tout objective reason and market forces, should not succumb to the wishful thinking that characterizes the leftist.
Whollyweird/Commiewood is almost entirely leftist. Therein lies the answer to the question. Like Planned Parenthood, they promote the Nihilistic Agenda, and donate to the Deathocrat Party.
phantom menace did well, I presume its a combination of people on autopilot who buy into every hyped movie and Disney monkeying with the numbers. For some reason, sjwism is the only thing in the world corporations will stand strong on instead of crumbling to the first demand.
So they got away with things this time but if they keep pushing the same buttons I think people are going to wise up eventually.
What can I say, most people are sheep. Disney is becoming more and more political, its probably little exaggeration to say that its by far the biggest media influence on children today. And its allin on inculcating SJWism, yet tons of people, even here decry them in one thread and then gush how they’ll spend hundreds on an overpriced vacation or another paint by numbers marvel schlock the next.
Me thinks Disney did that to boost the sales to take it as far as it did, thereby inflating the numbers. If the movie was as bland and terrible as many have said, there's no way it truly would have done that well in the theaters.
It is probably not possible but I would like to see the count of actual, in-the-movie-auditorium viewers and compare that to the count of tickets sold. I suspect that the first number is far, far less than the second for many left-leaning movies.
A few years ago I ran across an article in which the author (a leftist) exhorted people to buy movie tickets to a show even if they could not attend. The obvious intent was to drive up popularity via huge ticket sales.
Think of it as the Hollywood version of the book scam where millions of copies of a liberal author’s books are printed and then purchased en-masse by the DNC. A few copies end up on liberal coffee tables but most copies are stored in a warehouse never to be seen again.
Actually, a third party ultimately reports box office receipts. Also, as a public company, falsifying box office receipts is a criminal offense and can be easily proven, so I highly doubt Disney is defrauding their shareholders and the SEC with fake numbers. Finally, posters like you who throw out such accusations are frauds with no ability to prove your accusations because it isn’t true. With Disney now owning Fox, it is likely Disney will absorb around 50% of box office receipts during some weeks.
Shazam! (the real Captain Marvel) at 94% on Rotten Tomatoes...also rave reviews for DC’s Joker trailer.
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