The Kitchen is Toast While Far From Home Keeps Swinging

The Kitchen

Comic film adaptations are big dollars and we track how they do each week to see trends and what’s working and what’s not. With 2018’s films wrapped up, we turn our focus squarely on 2019.


The Kitchen, based on the Vertigo comic miniseries, continues to struggle at the box office. The film fell off the weekend box office chart in its third week. That’s not a good sign and indicates the film only has a few more weeks at the box office before being pulled completely. Still, the film earned $1.1 million domestically for the week and $1.8 million internationally. The movie has brought in $11.4 million domestically, $2.1 million internationally, and $13.5 million worldwide. That’s far short of the $37 million reported budget. It’s also the worst-performing comic adaptation of the year.

This past weekend, Spider-Man: Far From Home #15 for the weekend earning an estimated $1.7 million domestically to bring its total to $379.7 million. The movie also earned $10 million internationally over the week to raise that total to $736 million. Worldwide the film stands at $1.116 billion. It’s $13 million behind Captain Marvel and there’s a chance it’ll pass that film’s worldwide gross before its theatrical run is over.

Avengers: Endgame is still bringing in money after 18 weeks. The movie came in at #33 and adding $50,000 to its domestic total to bring that to $858.2 million. Over the week, the film added $220,000 to its international total. Domestically it has earned $858.2 million, internationally it has earned $1.938 billion, and a worldwide total of $2.796 billion.


Here’s where 2019’s comic films stand as far as the actual numbers.

Total Domestic Gross: $2.021 billion
Total International Gross: $4.209 billion
Worldwide Gross: $6.230 billion
Total Reported Budgets: $1.234 billion
Total “Profit”: $4.997 billion

Average Domestic Gross: $224.5 million
Average International Gross: $467.7 million
Average: Worldwide Gross: $692.2 million
Average Budget: $137.1 million
Average Profit: $555.2 million

Below is where the films released stand when it comes to being compared to this year’s averages. The bold numbers are above average while those below average are not.

FilmStudioDomestic Gross
Avengers: EndgameBV$858,238,415
Captain MarvelBV$426,829,839
Spider-Man: Far From HomeSony$379,734,007
Shazam!WB$140,371,656
Alita: Battle AngelFox$85,710,210
Dark PhoenixFox$65,845,974
Dragon Ball Super: BrolyFUNamation Films$30,712,119
HellboyLions$21,903,748
The KitchenWB$11,407,291
FilmStudioInternational Gross
Avengers: EndgameBV$1,937,778,060
Spider-Man: Far From HomeSony$736,000,000
Captain MarvelBV$701,444,955
Alita: Battle AngelFox$319,142,333
Shazam!WB$224,100,000
Dark PhoenixFox$186,597,000
Dragon Ball Super: BrolyFUNamation Films$83,390,702
HellboyLions$18,882,732
The KitchenWB$2,050,000
FilmStudioWorldwide Gross
Avengers: EndgameBV$2,796,016,475
Captain MarvelBV$1,128,274,794
Spider-Man: Far From HomeSony$1,115,734,007
Alita: Battle AngelFox$404,852,543
Shazam!WB$364,471,656
Dark PhoenixFox$252,442,974
Dragon Ball Super: BrolyFUNamation Films$114,102,821
HellboyLions$40,786,480
The KitchenWB$13,457,291
FilmStudioGross-Budget
Avengers: EndgameBV$2,440,016,475
Captain MarvelBV$976,274,794
Spider-Man: Far From HomeSony$955,734,007
Shazam!WB$264,471,656
Alita: Battle AngelFox$234,852,543
Dragon Ball Super: BrolyFUNamation Films$105,602,821
Dark PhoenixFox$52,442,974
HellboyLions-$9,213,520
The KitchenWB-$23,542,709
FilmStudioGross/Budget
Dragon Ball Super: BrolyFUNamation Films13.42
Avengers: EndgameBV7.85
Spider-Man: Far From HomeSony6.97
Captain MarvelBV4.61
Shazam!WB3.64
Alita: Battle AngelFox2.38
Dark PhoenixFox1.26
HellboyLions0.82
The KitchenWB0.36