Domestic US Box Office 4-6 May 2012
| # | Movie title | Studio | Weeks in release | 3 Day Weekend $ | Total $ |
| 1 NEW | The Avengers | Buena Vista | NEW | $207 million | $207 million |
| 2 \/ | Think Like A Man | Screen Gems | 3 | $8.1 million | $73.1 million |
| 3 - | The Hunger Games | Lionsgate | 7 | $5.6 million | $380 million |
| 4 \/ | The Pirates! Band of Misfits | Sony | 2 | $5.5 million | $18.7 million |
| 5 \/ | The Lucky One | Warner Brothers | 3 | $5.4 million | $47.8 million |
| 6 \/ | The Five-Year Engagement | Universal | 2 | $5 million | $19.1 million |
| 7 \/ | Safe | Lionsgate | 2 | $2.7 million | $13 million |
| 8 \/ | The Raven | Relativity | 2 | $2.6 million | $12.2 million |
| 9 \/ | Chimpanzee | Buena Vista | 3 | $2.5 million | $23.1 million |
| 10 \/ | The Three Stooges | Fox | 4 | $1.8 million | $39.7 million |
Nothing more can be said about the success of ‘The Avengers’ – money talks and bullshit walks.
‘The Avengers’ had a budget of $220 million plus marketing costs and it has made most that back in it’s opening weekend at the US box office. When you add overseas box office the current haul for the superhero epic sits at $654 million.
With a $1 billion dollars in sight, it puts Disney’s $4 billion dollar purchase of Marvel in 2009 in perspective as a decent investment when considering future Marvel films, merchandising and media.
The highest grossing superhero film of all time is ‘The Dark Knight’ with $533 million and the highest grossing film of all time is still ‘Avatar’ with $760 million. Can ‘The Avengers’ go all the way?
Below is a list of some of the records ‘The Avengers’ broke at the US box office:
Single day Saturday gross
Single day Sunday gross
Theatre averages (wide release)
Theatre averages (opening weekend)
Opening weekend
Opening weekend May
Top 3-day grosses
Rated PG-13 opening weekend
Fastest to $100 million
Fastest to $150 million
Fastest to #200 million
Total studio grosses from new releases in 2012 as of 7 May 2012
| # | Studio | # films released | Cume |
| 1 | Universal | 7 | $512.1 million |
| 2 | Lionsgate | 6 | $498.8 million |
| 3 | Screen Gems Sony/Columbia | 6 | $459.3 million |
| 4 | Disney/Buena Vista | 5 | $365.4 million |
| 5 | Warner Brothers | 6 | $317.9 million |
| 6 | Fox | 5 | $251.9 million |
| 7 | Relativity | 4 | $161.1 million |
| 8 | Paramount/Dreamworks | 3 | $128.7 million |
| 9 | Open Road Films | 2 | $64.4 million |
| 10 | CBS Films | 2 | $62.5 million |
| 11 | Summit | 2 | $51.7 million |
| 12 | Weinstein Company | 4 | $4.4 million |
All stats from Box Office Mojo.
