Where the Data Ranks 2017’s Comic Book Films. Wonder Woman Crosses $400 million at the Foreign Box Office
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 $400 million at the foreign box office. The movie is the top earning movie domestically for DC’s movie universe by a solid $76 million (and counting). 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 is also the top earning comic film domestically for the year so far.
Wonder Woman crosses $400 million at the foreign box office.
Spider-Man: Homecoming earned $4.7 million over the week to bring its domestic total to $318.8 million, and with its $418.2 million, the film has earned $737.0 million worldwide. That’s about $13 million over the past week. The film has now passed the original Spider-Man for international earnings. While the film has done better than average domestically for a Spider-Man film it lags internationally.
Atomic Blonde added about $7 million over the past week to bring its worldwide total to $80.9 million. The film has a 2.7 multiplier which is not bad, especially for a rough year at the box office.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 added $400,000 to its overall total over the week which is about what it earned last week. The film sits at $862.8 million and will wind up between $863 and $864 million before it’s done.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets added $17 million to its worldwide total over the week bringing it to $132.9 million which is still far short of its $177.2 million budget. The film is still a disaster but not quite the trainwreck it once was.
Lets compare how the big two comic companies compare for earnings. On average DC films earn $338.2 million domestically while Marvel earns $308.3 million. Internationally, Marvel rules with $476.9 million and DC lags behind with $435.1 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: $1.691 billion
Total International Gross: $2.224 billion
Worldwide Gross: $3.915 billion
Total Reported Budgets: $1.083 million
Total “Profit”: $2.832 billion
Average Domestic Gross: $169.1 million
Average International Gross: $247.1 million
Average: Worldwide Gross: $391.5 million
Average Budget: $108.3 million
Average Profit: $283.2 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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