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Iron Man (Infinity War) Enters Marvel Contest of Champions!

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In Kabam’s Marvel Contest of Champions, the new Avengers: Infinity War-themed character Iron Man (Infinity War) has entered the contest! Here is a quick description of Iron Man’s background in the game:

After being an integral part of the Avengers team from the start, Tony Stark finds himself divided from Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. But now, faced with an imminent, deadly threat unlike any he has ever encountered, Stark will be forced to call upon some familiar faces as well as do battle alongside some new allies.

If you need to learn more about Iron Man (Infinity War)’s special abilities and stats, his Champion Spotlight can be found online.

Where the Data Ranks 2018’s Comic Book Films. Deadpool 2 Debuts With Over $300 Million

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It was a solid weekend for Deadpool 2 though it didn’t deliver a record opening weekend domestically as expected. The film was the number one film for the weekend with $125 million domestically over three days. That’s the second largest R-rated opening ever behind the first film’s $132.4 million debut two years ago. It beat It which opened with $123.4 million last September.

The film opened in 81 markets internationally bringing in an estimated $176.3 million. That’s a record debut for Fox International beating X-Men: Days of Future Past. That film had $38.3 million from China. Deadpool didn’t play in China though did play last month at the Beijing International Film Festival. The sequel doesn’t have a release date currently.

Worldwide the film earned $301.3 million. It received an “A” CinemaScore with 62% 25 years or older (up from the previous film’s 53%). It was 61% male.

Avengers: Infinity War was bumped to second. It earned $28.7 million domestically in its fourth week and has earned $595 million after 24 days. It’s the eighth largest domestic release of all time.

Internationally the film added $84.4 million and its foreign total is $1.218 billion. Worldwide the film has earned $1.81 billion and is the fourth largest global release of all time and third largest international release of all time.

Black Panther dropped to #13 with $823,000. The film domestically has earned $697.8 million and worldwide the film has earned $1.344 billion.

The Death of Stalin dipped to #31 with an estimated $61,432 after 11 weeks. The film has earned $7.8 million domestically.

I Kill Giants continues to be a weird one when it comes to numbers. Some more numbers have come in. According to what little we could find, it looks like the film’s domestic box office has brought in $183,754. All together, the film has earned a reported $263,621 at the foreign box office. The movie was released on demand at the same time in theaters, so the film has made money it’s just unknown how much.

Here’s where this year’s comic films stand as far as the actual numbers. With a new film opening the averages have dipped.

Total Domestic Gross: $1.426 billion
Total International Gross: $2.054 billion
Worldwide Gross: $3.480 billion
Total Reported Budgets: $625.1 million
Total “Profit”: $2.837 billion

Average Domestic Gross: $285.2 million
Average International Gross: $410.9 million
Average: Worldwide Gross: $696.0 million
Average Budget: $156.3 million
Average Profit: $540 million

Below is where the films released stand when it comes to being compared to this year’s averages. Those in green are above average while those below are red.

Deadpool 2 Has Second Largest R-Rated Opening and Nets $301 Million Worldwide

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It was a solid weekend for Deadpool 2 though it didn’t deliver a record opening weekend domestically as expected. The film was the number one film for the weekend with $125 million domestically over three days. That’s the second largest R-rated opening ever behind the first film’s $132.4 million debut two years ago. It beat It which opened with $123.4 million last September.

The film opened in 81 markets internationally bringing in an estimated $176.3 million. That’s a record debut for Fox International beating X-Men: Days of Future Past. That film had $38.3 million from China. Deadpool didn’t play in China though did play last month at the Beijing International Film Festival. The sequel doesn’t have a release date currently.

Worldwide the film earned $301.3 million. It received an “A” CinemaScore with 62% 25 years or older (up from the previous film’s 53%). It was 61% male.

Avengers: Infinity War was bumped to second. It earned $28.7 million domestically in its fourth week and has earned $595 million after 24 days. It’s the eighth largest domestic release of all time.

Internationally the film added $84.4 million and its foreign total is $1.218 billion. Worldwide the film has earned $1.81 billion and is the fourth largest global release of all time and third largest international release of all time.

In third place was Book Club which debuted with an estimated $12.5 million. That beats some expectations.

Life of the Party took fourth place with an estimated $7.7 million to bring its domestic total to $31 million.

Rounding out the top five was Beaking In which brought in $6.5 million for a domestic total of $28.8 million. Even after a deep drop the film is doing quite well considering its budget was just $6 million.

In other comic movie news…

Black Panther dropped to #13 with $823,000. The film domestically has earned $697.8 million and worldwide the film has earned $1.344 billion.

The Death of Stalin dipped to #31 with an estimated $61,432 after 11 weeks. The film has earned $7.8 million domestically.

We’ll be back in an hour for a deeper dive into this year’s comic adaptation.

Where the Data Ranks 2018’s Comic Book Films. Avengers: Infinity War is the Top Grossing Comic Film of All Time

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With the 2017 films no longer earning money, we can now focus just on 2018 which is already a record year in numerous ways. We’ll have further analysis of 2017 in another article but on to 2018…

Avengers: Infinity War won the past weekend with an estimated $61.8 million. That’s three weekends in a row. Domestically, the film has earned $547.8 million and it all might be even higher once the real higher numbers are revealed. It’s the eighth largest domestic release ever.

The film debuted in China where it earned an estimated $200 million, the second largest debut in the market ever based on local currency. That three day performance beat the lifetime runs of The Avengers, Captain America: Civil War, and Iron Man 3. It’s the ninth largest western release in China ever.

Infinity War is the highest grossing superhero release internationally of all-time. It has eanred $1.059 billion which beats Avengers: Age of Ultron‘s $946.4 million.

The film is the fifth largest global release of all time with $1.607 billion. It’s about $65 million behind Jurassic World and should easily pass that in the next two weeks if not sooner. It’s also the highest grossing comic adaptation of all time beating Marvel’s the Avengers by almost $100 million.

Next weekend Avengers: Infinity War faces tough competition with Deadpool 2 which should topple it from first place.

Black Panther brought in an estimated $1.9 million bringing the domestic total to $696.2 million. It needs less that $4 million and it’ll be the third domestic release ever to cross $700 million. Worlwide the film has earned $1.341 billion and has seen domestic earnings being the driver reversing a long running trend for Marvel films. 51.9% of the film has been brought in domestically.

The film is still earning far more domestically than the average Marvel film with 51.9% earned versus 40.78% on average. International earnings seem to have slowed down as the percentage has increased for the domestic ever so slightly. The film is an outlier as far as that and we’ll have a deeper dive in a few weeks to see where it over performed and where it might have under performed.

The Death of Stalin was #25 for the weekend with an estimated $121,764. The film has earned $7.7 million domestically after 10 weeks of release.

I Kill Giants continues to be a weird one when it comes to numbers. Some more numbers have come in. According to what little we could find, it looks like the film’s domestic box office has brought in $183,754. In Russia, the film has earned $163,289, Ukraine, $13,599, Australia it’s $926, United Arab Emirates it’s $85,002, and United Kingdom it’s $805. All together, the film has earned a reported $263,621 at the foreign box office. No domestic numbers have been released. The movie was released on demand at the same time in theaters, so the film has made money it’s just unknown how much.

Here’s where this year’s comic films stand as far as the actual numbers. With a new film opening the averages have dipped.

Total Domestic Gross: $1.252 billion
Total International Gross: $1.715 billion
Worldwide Gross: $2.966 billion
Total Reported Budgets: $515.1 million
Total “Profit”: $2.434 billion

Average Domestic Gross: $313 million
Average International Gross: $428.6 million
Average: Worldwide Gross: $741.6 million
Average Budget: $171.7 million
Average Profit: $569.9 million

Below is where the films released stand when it comes to being compared to this year’s averages. Those in green are above average while those below are red.

Those Two Geeks Episode Twenty Four: There Be Infinity War Spoilers Ahead!

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On the docket this week: The geeks talk about Avengers: Infinity War. And spoil it significantly after about 15 minutes.

As always, the Alex and Joe can be found on twitter respectively @karcossa and @jc_hesh if you feel the need to tell them they’re wrong individually, or @those2geeks if you want to yell at them together on twitter or email ItsThose2Geeks@gmail.com.

Thanks for listening, and we’ll see you next week in the future!

Avengers: Infinity War Dominates for a Second Weekend and Crosses $1 Billion

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Unsurprisingly Avengers: Infinity War won the weekend easily with an estimated $112.5 million a 56.4% drop from the previous weekend. That beat the second place film by almost $100 million.

Avengers: Infinity War has earned $450.8 million domestically after ten days which only paces Star Wars: The Force Awakens which did that in nine.

Internationally the film remained in first place with an estimated $162.6 million from 54 markets. The weekend brought in $275.1 million for the film which has now earned $1.16 billion worldwide.

The film’s 11 day run to $1 billion worldwide is the fastest any film has crossed the line. It’s the sixth Marvel film to cross that mark and 17th for Walt Disney Studios. 34 films have crossed $1 billion at the worldwide box office.

In second place was the new film Overboard which earned an estimated $14.8 million. The film is a remake of the 1987 film and received an “A-” CinemaScore from opening weekend audiences. 61% of the audience was female and 83% over the age of 25.

A Quiet Place slipped to third from last week’s second and earned an estimated $7.6 million to bring its domestic total to $159.9 million. Worldwide the film has earned $255.3 million.

In fourth place was I Feel Pretty which slipped one slot and added an estimated $4.9 million to its total to bring it to $37.8 million domestically.

Rampage dropped on spot too to round out the top five. It brought in an estimated $4.6 million to bring its domestic gross to $84.8 million. Worldwide the film has earned $377.9 million.

In other comic films at the movies….

Black Panther was #7 for the week with an estimated $3.1 million. Domestically the film has earned $693.1 million. Worldwide, the film has earned $1.338 billion.

The Death of Stalin improved one spot to come in at #23 for the week. The film earned $181,623 to bring its domestic total to $7.5 million.

We’ll be back in one hour to do a deeper dive into comic adaptations at the box office.

Avengers Infinity War: A Conversational Inter-Review With A Casual Fan

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Avengers Infinity WarContrary to what you might expect, my wife isn’t a huge comics fan and hasn’t seen every movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But because she loved Black Panther (didn’t we all?) she wanted to see Avengers: Infinity War with me. I thought it would be interesting to see how the movie held up for somebody who doesn’t gobble up every possible aspect of the MCU within days of it being released. Can this movie be enjoyed by somebody who has only seen a handful (in no order: the first Captain America, Guardians 1 and 2, Thor 3, Ant Man and Black Panther) of the 18 previous movies? Let’s find out!

The burning question; did you enjoy it?

Yes! While I certainly went in blind, not knowing everything I felt I should about the characters and their previous story lines, I found it easy to follow along with  and quickly found myself intrigued by the storyline. I also found myself wanting to watch some of the previous films so I could get to know some of these folks better. Dr. Strange in particular caught my eye. Sorry Iron Man, but you will never get me on board. I don’t know what it is about RDJ that just doesn’t do it for me. But what I do know is that it’s hard to pick which Chris is the hottest of them all. Ok, well maybe not *that* hard… I see you there C. Hemi. But in all seriousness, I was so excited when Black Panther showed up. That was a film that truly grabbed my attention and going in I was most excited to see this character again. Avengers Infinity War certainly was action packed and a fun film that crosses so many familiar characters, that even a casual comic fan (whether I want to be or not, love ya babe) can quickly find themselves hanging of the edge of their seat. I would certainly recommend it.

Did you feel that there was enough of the characters you were unfamiliar with shown so that you got a sense of who they were? 

Yes and no. I couldn’t quite place all the new to me characters, but it didn’t take away from the other all story line. but as mentioned previously, some of the character intrigued me enough to want to get to know them more.

In comparison to the other films you have seen from the MCU, how did the movie compare? 

I think that for me I personally prefer some of the stand alone films more, such as Black Panther and Guardians because as a casual fan, it gives me more of their own stories, but I did like that I knew enough about some of the characters to be able to enjoy this film and get a good sense of how stories develop and cross over in the pages of so many comics.

Speaking of comics; did the movie encourage you to pick up a comic or two? 

Never say never, but it’s likely not my first medium of choice.  That said (as you well know) I do own a few comics of my own already :)

And finally, do you feel the need to see the next Avengers film after having seen Infinity War? 

Absolutely! I mean, that ending tho!!!!!

Stan Lee has said that any comic could be a person’s first, a view shared by at least one other publisher, and in the case of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the same can also be said. Do you need to watch everything to be able to enjoy the movie? No, not at all. But some familiarity will help you.

Now excuse me so I can continue guiding my wife deeper into the MCU…

Avengers: Infinity War. Thanos Demands Your Eros. Listen on Demand!

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Join Graphic Policy Radio as it discusses the Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s biggest crossover to date, Avengers: Infinity War. Our guest experts are Marvel fans with an academic bend:

Steven Attewell writes about the intersection of history, politics, and pop culture in “The People’s History of the Marvel Universe” for Graphic Policy. In his day job, He teaches public policy at CUNY’s Murphy Institute for Labor Studies. He is the founder of Race for the Iron Throne, a blog about A Song of Ice and Fire.

Brandon Wilson is a Los Angeles based filmmaker and teaches at UCLA and Columbia College Hollywood where he is currently teaching classes on the History of Critical Analysis and a class on David Fincher.

And our host Elana Levin who has a lot to say about the politics of Thanos.

Avengers: Infinity War. Thanos Demands Your Eros. Listen LIVE this Monday at 10pm ET

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Join Graphic Policy Radio as it discusses the Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s biggest crossover to date, Avengers: Infinity War. Our guest experts are Marvel fans with an academic bend:

Steven Attewell writes about the intersection of history, politics, and pop culture in “The People’s History of the Marvel Universe” for Graphic Policy. In his day job, He teaches public policy at CUNY’s Murphy Institute for Labor Studies. He is the founder of Race for the Iron Throne, a blog about A Song of Ice and Fire.

Brandon Wilson is a Los Angeles based filmmaker and teaches at UCLA and Columbia College Hollywood where he is currently teaching classes on the History of Critical Analysis and a class on David Fincher.

And our host Elana Levin who has a lot to say about the politics of Thanos.

Listen to the show when it airs LIVE this Monday at 10pm ET.

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