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2011 Comic Book Movie Winners and Losers

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Brett

2011 was a decent year for comic book movies. The majority were decent, but there are none that go down in my mind as “classics.” Below is a breakdown as to which were this year’s winners and losers. All data is from BoxOfficeMojo. Keep in mind, The Adventures of Tintin is currently still running in theaters and only recently came out in the United States.

Top 5 Domestic Gross for 2011

Thor	$181,030,624
Captain America: The First Avenger	$176,654,505
X-Men: First Class	$146,408,305
Green Lantern	$116,601,172
Cowboys & Aliens	$100,240,551

Top 5 International Gross

Thor	$268,295,994
The Adventures of Tintin	$239,100,000
X-Men: First Class	$207,215,819
Captain America: The First Avenger	$191,953,858
The Green Hornet	$129,037,206

Top 5 Total Gross

Thor	$449,326,618
Captain America: The First Avenger	$368,608,363
X-Men: First Class	$353,624,124
The Adventures of Tintin	$263,207,000
The Green Hornet	$227,817,248

Gross vs. Budget – worldwide gross compared to budget

Thor	3.00
Captain America: The First Avenger	2.63
X-Men: First Class	2.21
The Green Hornet	1.90
Priest	1.31

Global Legs – worldwide gross versus domestic opening

The Adventures of Tintin	27.12
Thor	6.84
The Green Hornet	6.80
X-Men: First Class	6.42
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night	6.14

Domestic Legs – domestic gross versus domestic opening

The Green Hornet	2.95
Thor	2.75
Cowboys & Aliens	2.75
Captain America: The First Avenger	2.72
X-Men: First Class	2.66

As requested here’s the Rotten Tomatoes current score versus the worldwide gross

Name	All Critics	Top Critics	Audience	Worldwide
X-Men: First Class	87%	70%	88%	$353,624,124
Thor	77%	64%	80%	$449,326,618
The Adventures of Tintin	75%	67%	80%	$263,207,000
Captain America: The First Avenger	79%	78%	75%	$368,608,363
Cowboys & Aliens	44%	51%	49%	$174,822,325
Green Lantern	27%	18%	48%	$219,851,172
The Green Hornet	44%	21%	47%	$227,817,248
Priest	17%	8%	37%	$78,309,131
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night	6%	0%	28%	$4,634,062

Around the Tubes

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Brett

The days are ticking until Baltimore Comic Con. With lots of friends attending, expect lots of interviews and hopefully some news. But, while you wait in anticipation, here’s some news you might have missed.

Around the Blogs:

ICv2 – Kirby Heirs File Appeal – It goes on and on my friend….

The Mary Sue – Marvel’s Runaways Gets Bumped by The Avengers – Maybe one of the mystery movies?

Con Coverage:

The Beat – Wizard scales back to more realistic 7-show schedule

Around the Tubes Reviews:

Lady Ozma’s Journey – Cowboys & Aliens

Apes Still Rule as Cowboys Retreat and Cap Holds Strong

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Brett

Rise of the Planet of the Apes remained at the top of the box office with some strong competition from the debut of The Help. The apes brought in $27.5 million, just a drop of 49.8% in it’s second week. The movie has brought in $104.9 million through ten days. The movie cost $93 million to make, so it’s good to go at this point.

Cowboys & Aliens dropped 51.6% in it’s third week earning $7.6 million. That put it just ahead of Captain America: The First Avenger which earned an estimated $7.1 million. Cowboys & Aliens has now earned $81.5 million and the likelihood of it reaching $100 million domestically is slim. Cap on the other hand is above $150 million and will likely end up around $160 million domestically.

Cowboys Retreat As Apes Take Over

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Brett

Rise of the Planet of the Apes took the weekend box office with a commanding $54 million. The movie received very positive reviews from all over. The Smurfs took in second place, adding an additional $21 million to it’s total. Cowboys & Aliens, a comic book based movie that was number one last weekend, dropped to third with an estimated $15.7 million. The movie has brought in a total of $67 million.

Captain America: The First Avenger was fifth this week, bringing in $13 million for a three-week total of $143 million.

Around the Tubes

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Brett

We should be pretty back to normal this week as far as coverage, going a bit heavier when it comes to games since we just came off of Gen Con. We’ve missed a few “Around the Tubes,” so below is catch up with some older news and throughout the day, we’ll be posting news we might have missed.

Around the Blogs:

Bleeding Cool – The Superhero With Irritable Bowel Syndrome – Well that’s just shitty…

Bleeding Cool – How A Soft Cowboys & Aliens Opening May Affect Platinum Studios – Doh!

IGN – Race in Comics: Spider-Man’s Impact – A take on Marvel’s recent announcement.

Bleeding Cool – Joe Quesada Commissioned By President Obama – We are so raising revenues through sales of alternate covers.

ICv2 – Sony Sets Date for Garfield ‘Spider-Man’ Sequel – Yes, that’s a sequel to a movie that hasn’t even been released yet.

Kotaku – Sunday Comics – Each week, Kotaku brings some great web comics.

Obsessive Reaction – Race in comic books, does it even matter? – An interesting take on the new ultimate Spider-Man.

Comics Alliance – Warner Bros. Purchases Film Rights to Nate Simpson’s ‘Nonplayer’ – Has the second issue even come out?

ICv2 – ‘Game of Thrones’ Helmer in Talks for ‘Thor 2’ – Could be a really good fit.

Monthly/Quarterly Sales Numbers:

ICv2 – Game Sales Grew in Q2

ICv2 – Top 10 Card Games–Q2 2011

ICv2 –Top 5 RPGs–Q2 2011

ICv2 – Top 10 Board Games–Q2 2011

ICv2 – Top Collectible Games–Q2 2011

ComiChron – July initial, June final comics orders online; IDW sets record

Con Coverage:

MTV Geek – Gen Con: New Marvel Comics RPG Games Announced By Margaret Weis Productions

CBR – Geoff Johns & Jim Lee Named Guests of Honor at New York Comic-Con

Around the Tubes Reviews:

Cambridge First – Batman: Hush Unwrapped Deluxe Edition

English Chick 21 – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel

CBR – Rachel Rising #1

CBR – Scalped #51

IGN – Comic Book Reviews for 8/3/11

Paste Magazine – Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (8/3/11)

Update: Cowboys & Aliens Just Smurfs By The Smurfs

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Brett

Yesterday we reported that it looked like The Smurfs had beaten Cowboys & Aliens to win the weekend box office. Well, it looks like we called that one a bit too soon. The sci-fi/western mashup actually won the weekend bringing in $36.4 million for the weekend compared to $35.6 million for the little blue irritants.

Oops, reported that one a bit too early and to that I can only say, “smurf me.”

Movie Goers Say “Smurf You” to Cowboys & Aliens

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Brett

It looks like The Smurfs has just beat out Cowboys & Aliens when it comes to the weekend box office take. Both movies have taken in an estimated $32.6 million in North America and the little blue beings just edged out the Cowboys and their alien foes. The Smurfs has cost a reported $110 million to make while the highly pedigreed Cowboys & Aliens cost an estimated $163 million.

The Smurfs which was panned by movie reviewers was given a score of an A in exit polls but Cowboys & Aliens received a B.

Captain America: The First Avenger came in third, bringing in $25 million in it’s second week. That’s brought it’s total in North America to $116.8 million.

Cowboys & Aliens was the final “comic book” movie of the summer, so we’ll see how it and Cap pans out over the next few weeks before we declare winners and losers.

Around the Tubes – Countdown Until Graphic Policy Radio

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Brett

If you didn’t see yesterday, we announced this Sunday is the launch of Graphic Policy Radio. But while that news sinks in… here’s the news you might have missed.

Around the Blogs:

Geekweek – DC Comics Responds To Female Creator Controversy – It’s been a bad PR week for DC due to this, and they should be out celebrating DCnU. They had to respond and did. It just took too long.

Bleeding Cool – The Secret Story Behind Cowboys And Aliens – Interesting….

Con Coverage:

The Beat – SCOOP: What really happened at the infamous Dan DiDio/Hire More Women incident – This is what DC needed to respond to.

New Cowboys & Aliens Trailer

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Brett

The movie hasn’t been catching on fire on Facebook according to our watch, but damn the trailer has me wanting to see this. Check out the latest trailer for Cowboys & Aliens.

Facebook Movie Watch

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Brett

It’s our seventh entry for our Facebook Movie Watch, where we see if movies drive the likes or the likes indicate the buzz a movie has. Below are the new counts and how much they moved.

Most of the films saw slow down in their growth rates compared to last week, except for Green Lantern which continued to build even after a mixed reception in reviews.

Thor – Opened in the United States May 6, already released globally.