Where the Data Ranks 2017’s Comic Book Films. Spider-Man Now Challenges Guardians
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.
Spider-Man: Homecoming continues to get a late boost in its run seeing a $36 million jump over the past week that has the film now just $2 million behind Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 to become the top grossing comic film of 2017 so far. The film has seen almost 62% of its earnings come from the foreign box office continuing this year’s narrative that the foreign box office rules the year.
Wonder Woman continues to impress as it winds down its run. It’s still the highest earning domestic earner for a comic film this year so far.
Atomic Blonde is approaching $100 million and will be a moderate success.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is making a comeback and has finally crossed the threshold so that its worldwide total is greater than its budget. Still not good, but also not a disaster of Titanic proportion.
Lets compare how the big two comic companies compare for earnings. On average DC films earn $339.3 million domestically while Marvel earns $308.3 million. Internationally, Marvel rules with $476.9 million and DC lags behind with $436.8 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, Spider-Man: Homecomning, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 have done well this year. The LEGO Batman Movie and Smurfs: The Lost Village, and Atomic Blonde are in that debatable area, and Valerian, Wilson and Ghost in the Shell are generally disappointments. Marvel’s Inhumans… got no clue and tough to debate since it’s a television show primarily with a limited film engagement.
Here’s where this year’s comic films stand as far as the actual numbers:
Total Domestic Gross: $1.712 billion
Total International Gross: $2.443 billion
Worldwide Gross: $4.155 billion
Total Reported Budgets: $1.083 million
Total “Profit”: $3.069 billion
Average Domestic Gross: $155.6 million
Average International Gross: $244.3 million
Average: Worldwide Gross: $377.7 million
Average Budget: $108.3 million
Average Profit: $306.9 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.

Discover more from Graphic Policy
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
