Posted on 04/05/2018 8:59:44 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Disney/Marvel’s Avengers Infinity War arrived on tracking today with numbers that literally indicate the movie could open to $200M-plus, easily on its way to a record April debut. Note this is an industry prediction, not one from Disney. The studio is historically conservative with their projections.
The asterisk here is that when films chart this high on tracking, it becomes hard to predict their opening, and we also have to remind you of the cap that April has: its record $100M-plus weekends of Furious 7 ($147M) and Fate of the Furious ($98.7M) occurred over Easter holiday weekends, while The Jungle Book popped to a $103.2M during the middle of the month. Only 5% K-12 and 4% colleges are off during the April 27-29 opening weekend for Infinity War, but school never stopped the kids from fueling a record weekend at the box office. Furthermore there were slightly more schools on break on Infinity War‘s original weekend of May 4 (2% K-12 and 16% colleges per ComScore).
In unaided awareness, that portion of survey-taking where the person being polled brings up a movie title without being prompted, Infinity War has a huge 42, a score that’s higher than The Force Awakens (36, $247.9M), Black Panther (35, $202M), The Last Jedi (35, $220M), Jurassic World (24, $209M) and Avengers (26, $207M).
Other strong indicators: First choice where Infinity War has an enormous 38 which is also higher than The Force Awakens (22, $247.9M), Black Panther (25, $202M), The Last Jedi (23, $220M), and Jurassic World (17, $209M), and Avengers (21, $207M).
The pent-up anticipation here for Marvel fans is that Infinity War stars the entire universe (sans X-Men) including the newly Sony rebooted Spider-Man Tom Holland.
Back on March 16, Fandango announced that in six hours, advance tickets sales for Infinity War already broke the 24-hour sales records of all previous superhero movies, including Black Panther, which in its first day was outstripping Captain America: Civil War ($179.1M).
Black Panther propelled 2018 to a pace that was faster than 2017 until many intended first quarter event films turned out not to be events, i.e. Tomb Raider, Wrinkle in Time, and Red Sparrow. Though we are close to 4% behind 2017 through April 1 ($2.89B to $3B), no doubt, Infinity War will catch us up.
Was it “Captain America: Civil War” or “Avengers: Civil War”?
(or were there two?)
TRUMP is Captain America. The liberal SJW who plays him on screen is an assclown.
:-)
Capt America: Civil War.
Girls and I go to comic and animation movies. It’s our father-daughter thing even now that they in college. Boyfriends get irritated ;)
Black Panther, despite box office and reviews, was ok; but none of us thought it was ‘GREAT!’ We felt Antman was better by far. Looking forward to Avengers IG - hoping it holds up to there original mini-series (girls can’t relate there)
I finally saw the last Thor movie. God what a Joke they made him into.
They’ll kill someone off in the movie. Betcha. And if it’s the character I’m thinking of, and they’re doing it for the reason I’m thinking...I ain’t going.
I used to like Captain America, too. The first movie in the series was excellent, I thought, and I gladly took my kid to it. I now regret that choice.
Evans seemed to be polite, humble kid, middle-class upbringing, someone that you'd be happy for when he leaves the neighborhood and becomes a success. Whatta disappointment he wound up being. I've missed all the recent Marvel movies, and won't be attending this either. I watch the trailers and all I can see is Evans, and that other idiot who plays Bruce Banner/Hulk, running their mouths about how evil Trump and his supporters are.
Shut up and act.
Comic Book Movies hit their peak a decade ago anyway. Lemme guess. There'll be a handful of chases and fight scenes, at least one of the heroes will "Almost Lose It All", then find redemption, someone's gonna die, and, I'll go with the finale being a fight with the bigbadguy and a world-ending swirly thing in the sky of some sort. We'll see how close I get.
Marvel is just trying to squeeze a few more bucks out of this series.
That’s what made it great. All the good Marvel movies are some non-superhero movie interpreted through superheroes. The first Ironman was basically a manchild coming of age movie, Captain America 1 was a war movie, 2 was a spy movie. The latest Thor was a Hope and Crosby road movie.
I have not liked any of the Thor movies. I skipped Ragnarok after reading that the guy who plays Thor wanted it to be more like Guardians of the Galaxy, which is why it's apparently got a lot of humor that does not belong in a Thor movie.
I collected before most knew anyone collected comics.
Thor was one of my favorites. Like CSL & JRRT, I grew up preferring Nordic to Greek mythology.
Journey Into Mystery with The Mighty Thor was magnificent.
The first two movies were middling. The third was atrocious.
Guardians is largely responsible: movies for mainstream non-fans.
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