After setting a record for the highest domestic box office debut in earnings, the movie titled “The Avengers’ looks set to be the biggest hit ever. Ever since its release overseas on April 25, the movie has made about $ 628.9 million, and looks to cruise past the one billion mark in just 19 days.
Dave Hollis, the executive vice-president for motion picture distribution as Walt Disney, expresses their surprise at the movie doing so well by saying, “You can never anticipate this kind of success. It’s a staggering result.
The movie which is about Marvel superheroes teaming up to save the Earth, with known names such as Iron Man, Black Widow and Captain America among others, owes its success to “a storyline delivers on every level, to every segment of the audience”.
Another record that has been broken is overtaking Avatar’s $ 75.6 million after its second week of release by the movie as it has crossed the $ 100 million mark over the same timeframe while completely overshadowing ‘Dark Shadows’, which made $ 28.8 million domestically over its first weekend.
In fact, the movie now has the distinction of being the highest earning super movie of all time by beating not only the three Spiderman movies but also “The Dark Knight” which made waves in 2008.
As for being one of the highest grossing movies ever, people believe that it could rise to number 3 very soon by overtaking both the final Harry Potter movie as well as Toy Story 3. Yet there remains one record: James Cameron’s Avatar which stands at number one at a staggering total of $ 2.7 billion.