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So Avengers Did All Right for Itself

So Avengers Did All Right for Itself

By May 7, 2012 Comics, Movies 0 Comment


If you are a carbon-based lifeform, chances are you saw Avengers this past weekend. If you are and did, then congrats — you helped the movie earn the highest grossing domestic weekend of all time at a hair over $200 million. Not bad, really. Gamma Squad has a list of all the other records Avengers has broken, but I know all you’re really interested in the big picture, so here goes: 

Avengers has made almost $640 million worldwide so far, which is already enough to put it at the 55th highest grossing movie of all time, which might not sound like much but is pretty insane for having only one weekend in North America. The film still hasn’t even opened in Japan yet, which is a pretty major market, so I think there’s a good chance Avengers will end beating Return of the King‘s $1,119,900,000 and Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon‘s $1,123,700,000 to end up at 4th highest grossing movie of all time. Actually, the #3 spot — held by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 at $1,328,100,000 — is pretty attainable, but after that it gets to Titanic and Avatar, which both earned well over $2 billion. 
Look, if it beats all the Transformers movies, I’ll be happy. Just knowing that the world loves the Avengers movies more than Bayformers is enough to let me sleep soundly at night. FYI, I figured you were bored of Avengers screenshots, so that’s producer Kevin Feige showing off some of the movie props. Enjoy. (Via Box Office Mojo)

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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.