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The panel also explores what the record - breaking opening weekend record for «Avengers: Infinity War» means for «Avengers 4».

Just remember Avatar, Titanic and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy — marathon runners that didn't break the opening weekend records, but resulted in greatest runs in cinematic history.

Not exact matches

The Walt Disney Co. on Monday reported final weekend numbers for the superhero smash at $ 257.7 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters, further boosting the film's record - breaking opening weekend.

«After achieving its historic opening weekend at the global box office, Star Wars: The Force Awakens continues to thrill audiences and break records in Imax theatres worldwide,» said Greg Foster, CEO of Imax Entertainment.

All this sets up The Force Awakens — the seventh chapter in the Star Wars franchise that takes place 30 years after The Return of the Jedi — to break the record for the highest grossing opening weekend at the box office.

«Deadpool,» starring Ryan Reynolds as the wise - cracking Marvel superhero, opened on February 12 with a record - breaking $ 132 million weekend.

The movie also broke the record for the largest pre-summer opening day ($ 82 million), the largest opening in the month of March (beating «The Hunger Games,» $ 152 million) and the largest opening ever for Easter weekend (beating «Furious 7,» $ 147 million).

Paramount's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot was one of August's surprise successes with $ 149.6 million in ticket sales, while The Walt Disney Company (DIS) scored the hit of the summer with Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, which broke the opening - weekend box - office record for August on its way to grossing $ 258 million in the U.S. and more than $ 500 million worldwide within less than a month of its release.

The franchise has made over $ 13.5 billion worldwide to date, and that number will rise drastically this weekend when «Black Panther» opens, as is projected to break some box office records.

LAS VEGAS — The summer movie going season roared to life with the record - breaking opening weekend for «Avengers: Infinity War,» but industry leaders want audiences and theater owners to know that a healthy movie business is not just about the superheroes.

Black Panther entered the fray with a record breaking President's Day weekend opening of $ 242 million in domestic box office sales.

A largely unknown story outside of teen reader circles, it has become a juggernaut, breaking records for advance cinema booking, recording the biggest opening weekend for a non-sequel in Box Office history, and grossing double its substantial budget within a week.

Arsenal have missed a couple of opportunities in the last couple of weeks where they could have opened up a small gap at the top of the Premier League, but thanks to Jamie Vardy breaking the Premiership record by scoring in 11 games in a row and also to Bastian Schweinsteiger for getting his first goal for Man United, Arsenal now have a valid chance to go top again this weekend.

This movie is going to break weekend records in every urban area of the U.S.A. Every black man and woman — and their kids, grandparents, uncles and aunts — are selling out theaters in advance of Friday's opening.

«The industry is bracing for the record - setting debut of the highly anticipated «Avengers: Infinity War» that is expected to break through the $ 200 million opening weekend sound barrier as the summer movie season of 2018 gets off to an early and auspicious start,» mentioned comScore field place of business analyst Paul Dergarabedian.

So far «Deadpool» has broken three box office records: Biggest opening weekend in February, Biggest opening weekend in the winter and biggest opening weekend for an R - rated film.

It also broke records worldwide with its weekend opening projection standing at 235 million dollars, making it the third highest four - day collection of any movie.

The film raked in $ 155 million in the US in its opening weekend, breaking box office records for biggest nonsummer and biggest nonsequel debut for a feature film.

After its massive record - breaking opening weekend, Marvel Studios» Black Panther stayed king, earning an astonishing $ 108 million in its second weekend.

New Line Cinema's Stephen King adaptation «It» floated to the top spot in this weekend's box office charts, breaking the record for the largest opening of a horror movie ever, and blowing past analysts» $ 55 - million projections to the tune of $ 117...

Not everything is going to have a record - breaking opening weekend, but it's hard to cry «fatigue» when the audiences are still obviously so big and movies are still making money.

Black Panther is now in theaters and set to have a record - breaking opening weekend.

Black Panther celebrated a record - breaking opening weekend on its way to becoming Rotten Tomatoes» highest - rated live - action superhero movie ever.

Suicide Squad is on track to have a record breaking opening weekend even though c...

And even if it hits $ 100 million in its opening weekend, there's a long way to go before the Wakandan gets close to breaking Deadpool's February record of $ 132.4 million.

... Following on from the record - breaking advance ticket sales, box office projections for the domestic opening weekend of Black Panther have been revised upward, with the film now said to be looking at around $ 120 million.

The director not only unveiled his latest movie, «Moonrise Kingdom,» at the Cannes Film Festival, it opened this weekend in limited release to staggering, record - breaking numbers, boasting the highest per - screen averages in history.

Black Panther (one of the characters offered to Sony in that deal) opens this weekend is eyeing at a domestic opening of between $ 150 - 170 million which aims to break multiple box office records.

The film broke a ticket - presales record for superhero movies, and at press time it was tracking toward a $ 165 million opening — better than every Marvel nonsequel except The Avengers and possibly enough to crack the top 10 movie opening weekends of all time.

We've had a couple of record - breaking opening weekends, and a certain movie from a galaxy far, far away smashed the December opening weekend record.

A third instalment in the record - breaking animated franchise Hotel Transylvania hasn't officially been announced just yet but with the second movie taking in over $ 48 million in its opening weekend, it seems likely that Sony will want to cash in on a trilogy and confirm details sooner rather than later.

Deadpool 2 made its box office weight in chimichangas this weekend, nearly breaking the R - rated opening weekend record.

And now that it's finally out, it's breaking even more records in its opening weekend.

Not only has Stephen King's IT broken box office records (grossing an insane $ 117 million on opening weekend) and received huge critical acclaim, but it's also left fans obsessing over hidden references from the original book, the»90s miniseries, and other classic horror films.

I'm also predicting that Toy Story 3 will break Shrek the Third's record for the biggest open weekend for an animated movie.

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With Infinity War boasting a record - breaking opening weekend, it'll certainly have staying power in cinemas, which means that we don't know when more details about its sequel will arrive.

Rebecca Ferguson was the first to sign on for Daniel Espinosa «s sci - fi thriller Life, hot on the heels of her breakout role in Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, and Ryan Reynolds «casting was revealed just days after Deadpool «s record - breaking opening weekend.

The latest MCU movie broke records by earning an estimated $ 630m (# 457m) worldwide on its opening weekend, which is - * cough * - more than Justice League took during its entire cinematic run!

Other records the film has broken include the fact that it also had the biggest opening weekend collection in the US.

After a near record - breaking opening weekend in China, Avengers: Infinity War is now the fifth - highest grossing movie of all time and the 11th highest - grossing film of all time and the highest - grossing superhero movie ever with over $ 1.6 billion in global gross.

Other records broken include those of the biggest opening for an African - American director, the top - scoring superhero film on Rotten Tomatoes (97 percent) and the biggest February bow, supplanting previous champ Deadpool, which took in $ 152.2 million over the four - day Presidents» Day weekend in 2016.

Mark Hamill had a word of advice for Marvel Studios after Avengers: Infinity War broke the domestic opening weekend box office record.

After the record - breaking, critical acclaim - nabbing and audience - thrilling success of «Wonder Woman» finally gave female filmgoers a superhero in their own image, Marvel Studios» «Black Panther» — starring a black superhero and boasting a largely black cast — opened this weekend to record - breaking, critical acclaim - nabbing and audience - thrilling success.

Speaking in the days before the film opened, Bassett said she was heartened by the strong box - office projections for the film, which went on to make a record - breaking $ 235 million over the holiday weekend.

The movie broke all kinds of records at the box office, and it's the highest grossing R - rated movie ever, and it has the best R - rated opening weekend.

«Captain America: The Winter Soldier,» which broke the opening record for an April release by earning $ 95 million in its first weekend, went on to gross more than $ 711 million worldwide.

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Granted, it'll be nowhere near the record - breaking opening weekend of Avengers: Infinity War, but I don't think that'll be topped by anything other than another Avengers movie any time soon.

The steamy blockbuster starring Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson as BDSM practitioners Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, respectively, has broken a number of records since its impressive Valentine's Day weekend debut when it opened at No. 1 in 54 territories.