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.
Says a lot about the extent to which creative arts, and the audiences for them, have been lobotomized by profit-seeking and politics.
Fools and their money are soon parted.
JoMa
See post #19. The ignorance of people even on FR is enormous. Captain Marvel was in 4,300+ theaters, most on multiple screens of 4 or 5 per theater, which means it was on 15,000 to 20,000 screens for two weeks, then most movies start on a slow decline. Theater owners do not keep movies that do no make money and as stated, public companies can’t lie about their receipts, it’s a criminal offense to defraud shareholders like that. As one poster stated, some people have an inability to separate emotional biases with emotion free information.
Yes, too many on FR act like Pussy-Hat wearing socialists when they talk about Marvel movies.
They are ill-informed on the facts and spout every conspiracy theory imaginable.
It reminds me of the “If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going” crowd.
Obsessive opposition is an indication of a closed mind.
“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.”
It’s all about the distraction. My plan for Endgame is to order Chinese food via DoorDash, get a couple of beers and chill out for 3 hours. I have seen every Marvel movie with the exception of Black Panther and it is nothing more than mindless entertainment.
Granted, I can watch MSNBC and it will be just as mindless and entertaining. Probably why liberals take it seriously.
You guys should Google box office fraud sometime, both domestic and foreign.
don’t have a dime invested in Disney or popcorn futures or movie theaters
Don’t care
Where did “Hollyweird” make this movie? Taxifornia? Or Georgia where they get kickbacks?
Was the movie scored by a US symphony or composer or was it recorded abroad in Romania or someplace else that is cheaper?
It’s not like the budget can’t accommodate the union costs that these Lefties in these corporations and casts push for.
To expand on that...
While “deep throat” was “porno chic” and did send suburbanites to the porno theater, it also provided a convenient way for organized crime to launder money claiming that millions were coming in at the boxoffice (thy owned theaters). They didn’t even use ticket stubs at one point, opting to use those metal clickers to tally sales (click-click-click, “write it down”).
pinball machines, jukeboxes, washiterias, etc. were another way to launder receipts...
I do not doubt some fraud takes place....it does in nearly every industry. But fraud will not take a $100 million movie and make it a $1 billion movie.
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