This has little to do with my thoughts on the film, but it all seems so inevitable, so calculated, that it won't mean anything beyond a token upshift in attendance compared to the last movie. I mean this with no disrespect, but I'm a little disheartened at how oddly bored I am with the prospect of Avengers: Age of Ultron plowing through the weekend box office record books starting tomorrow. Heck, the overseas debut of Avengers: Age of Ultron ($201m) was an 8.5% improvement over The Avengers's $185m overseas debut back in 2012, and merely a similar growth in America would give the new sequel a towering $225m debut. Three years ago, the notion that a film, any film, could top the magic $200 million mark in its first three days was downright implausible. In 36 hours, the first paid screenings for Avengers: Age of Ultron will commence in the US and thus the official domestic opening weekend will begin. A look at the various benchmarks that Avengers: Age of Ultron will be chasing this weekend, and the relative chances of snagging new box office records along the way from Thursday night to Sunday night:
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