Where the Data Ranks 2017’s Comic Book Films. Wonder Woman Crosses $800 million.
2017 feels like it’s shaping up to be a wild ride for comic adaptions. We look at who the real winners and losers are for this year’s comic films.
The big news is that Wonder Woman continues to impress passing $800 million at the box office worldwide. The film is $4 million short of crossing the $400 million mark at the foreign box office. It may pull that off still. The movie has earned Wonder Woman is the top earning movie domestically for DC’s movie universe. The film however is third internationally behind both Batman vs Superman and Suicide Squad and likely won’t pass either. It’s the second highest earning DC movie worldwide.
Wonder Woman crosses $800 million worldwide. The most successful film of the DC movie universe.
Spider-Man: Homecoming earned $4.3 million to bring its domestic total to $314.1 million, and with its $410.8 million, the film has earned $724.9 million worldwide. That’s about $22 million over the past week. The film has now passed The Amazing Spider-Man 2 for worldwide earnings, but is far below the average of all of the Spider-Man films released to date. This film will be debated as to its success. It’s the middle of the pack when it comes to domestic earnings but due to it dragging at the international box office the film is the second lowest earner worldwide for Spider-Man films.
Atomic Blonde added $2.2 million to its total for a domestic total of $47.2 million and $73.2 million worldwide on a $30 million budget. That’s an increase of about $12 million over the week.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 added $185,000 to its total to bring that to $389.2 million and $862.3 million worldwide. That’s a gain of about $400,000 over the past week. That’s the fifth highest grossing Marvel film (not adjusted).
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets didn’t make it in the weekend box office roundup but earned $500,000 domestically and about $24 million at the foreign box office over the past week. The film is still far short of its budget and unlikely to make it back.
Lets compare how the big two comic companies compare for earnings. On average DC films earn $337.1 million domestically while Marvel earns $308.3 million. Internationally, Marvel rules with $476.9 million and DC lags behind with $433.8 million. There’s still work for DC when it comes to the international film market.
Already, the year is an interesting one with three clear successes and a whole lot of mixed otherwise. Wonder Woman, Logan and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 have done well this year, The LEGO Batman Movie and Smurfs: The Lost Village, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Atomic Blonde are in that debatable area, and Valerian, Wilson and Ghost in the Shell are generally disappointments.
Here’s where this year’s comic films stand as far as the actual numbers:
Total Domestic Gross: $1.682 billion
Total International Gross: $2.190 billion
Worldwide Gross: $3.871 billion
Total Reported Budgets: $1.083 million
Total “Profit”: $2.788 billion
Average Domestic Gross: $168.2 million
Average International Gross: $243.3 million
Average: Worldwide Gross: $380.8 million
Average Budget: $108.3 million
Average Profit: $278.8 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.

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