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!
Coogler turned his $ 200 million production budget into a movie that made $ 400 million
worldwide on its opening weekend, with raves from audiences and critics alike.
Not exact matches
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.
A Quiet Place, in particular, grossed $ 50 million
on its
opening weekend (the biggest Paramount release in a long time) and has cumulatively grossed more than $ 200 million
worldwide.
Young sold 22 million copies of his novel
worldwide — more than Huck Finn, Pride and Prejudice, or The Grapes of Wrath have ever sold; more than Catch - 22 and The Exorcist combined — and the film earned a healthy $ 16.1 million at the box office
on its
opening weekend.
The Searchlight marketing team found audiences stubbornly resistant to 2015 Sundance Jury Prize winner «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl» ($ 9 million
worldwide) or its most recent Sundance pick - up, «Patti Cake $,» which it purchased for $ 9.5 million but earned just $ 68,000
on its
opening weekend.
And, while Disney is going to hold off further detailed reporting
on its double Oscar winner Coco until the film
opens in Japan
on March 16, this
weekend was worth $ 3.3 M for a $ 536.4 M overseas cume and $ 745M
worldwide.
By comparison, Deadpool brought in roughly $ 132 million over its
opening weekend back in 2016, then went
on to amass $ 783 million
worldwide.
«Iron Man 3» has already amassed more than $ 300 million
worldwide and is
on target to become the highest grossing
opening weekend in the United States ever (outdoing even last summer's «The Avengers»).
Infinity War started with a bang, or perhaps a snap, decimating the
opening weekend records domestically and going
on to do the same thing
on the
worldwide scale, knocking The Fate of the Furious off of the throne.
It
opened back in February
on Oscar
weekend, and went
on to pocket $ 254.7 million
worldwide.
«Black Panther» has become a Hollywood hit
on a level that few other films have ever achieved: It is now only the fifth film ever to post an
opening weekend of over $ 200 million and is guaranteed to hit $ 1 billion
worldwide within the next month.
«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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on May 5, which topped the
opening weekend box office with a domestic take of over $ 146 million and has gone
on to garner over $ 860 million at the
worldwide box office to date.
International markets — led, presumably
on a leash, by Germany — added another $ 98.1 million to Freed's haul, bringing its
opening -
weekend total to $ 136.9 million
worldwide.
On July 7, «Spider - Man: Homecoming»
opened at # 1 with an
opening weekend box office of $ 117 million and has earned a
worldwide box office of over $ 633 million to date.
In 2016, Marvel Studios released «Captain America: Civil War,» which
opened on May 6 with the fifth largest
opening weekend of all time and has since garnered box office receipts of over $ 1.15 billion
worldwide.
Dwayne Johnson's new online game adaptation — although definitely not his first — is in theaters and performing nicely
on the field workplace, taking in practically $ 150 million
worldwide throughout its
opening weekend.