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[Cheebo]

The biggest domestic opening weekend of all time belongs to The Avengers with 207 million. Age of Ultron is widely expected to break that record and have the biggest opening weekend of all time. I am curious what GAF thinks it will do.

My guess is it will indeed break the record and have a 220 million opening.

 

[CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls]

244 million.

 

[backflip10019]

212 million. It'll just eek out the first one.

 

[Ahasverus]

205 milliion because of the mixed reviews, a will see, but not a must see.

 

[kris.]

A shitload of money.

 

[CassSept]

Random guess but 220? I don't see it shattering the previous record as much as Avengers did

 

[Cheebo]

205 milliion because of the mixed reviews, a will see, but not a must see.

Reviews never really have an impact on openings, those are more for later on with its legs.

 

[strafer]

Star Wars will break even more records.

 

[The Elite]

$206.5 million dollars.

 

[Cheebo]

Star Wars will break even more records.

Total boxoffice for 2015? Yes, that goes without saying. But weekend records never happen in December, since so many just wait to go over christmas break or christmas day

$206.5 million dollars.

Hah, in that case I am sure Disney would fudge the numbers to get it just over what the first did.

 

[Frog-fu]

170m

 

[……forgetit]

Star Wars will break even more records.

Which isn't the topic of this thread, on topic though my guess is $220 or something similar.

 

[PerezDeCorcho]

I'd wager that it would be a little less than the original Avengers' opening.

 

[TacticalFox88]

170m

You're batshit crazy

 

[Caboose]

Star Wars will break even more records.

It's not gonna break the OW record in December.

 

[Scorpion Soldier]

$220m

 

[Cheebo]

Surprised by the lower predictions. Latest tracking numbers were around 215 mil I believe?

 

[jett]

 

[Abounder]

Iron Man 3 made $174 million in its opening weekend...hmm...if I had to bet I'd say around $200 million but it would be unsurprising if it set a new record as well

 

[DeathoftheEndless]

205 milliion because of the mixed reviews, a will see, but not a must see.

84% is not mixed and it will only go higher.

$232 million

 

[Blackstarhat]

$250,000,000,000

 

[Vanish]

My intuition is telling me $217 million.

 

[Schweinehund]

I think opening weekend will be higher by a noticeable degree, but the following weekends will be the same if not a little higher.

That marvel money tho.

 

[Laieon]

More than $10. Not quite $10,000,000,000,000.

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

$218,000,000

 

[Bacon]

It's going to make money

 

[obin_gam]

$227m

 

[Nibel]

$250 million.

People give no shit about reviews.

 

[WyndhamPrice]

I'm gonna say it beats the first one but not by a lot. 215 million.

 

[Sephzilla]

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

3 billion.

 

[Sulik2]

I'm going high and saying $250 million.

 

[HeartlessNobody213]

$218 million

 

[Escape Goat]

$218 million

Im going to go with $1, Bob.

 

[Toothless]

People need to consider theater capacity. 250M is much, much too high, I believe it'd actually be impossible to make that money. In addition, I feel as though this won't be as big as the first one, since it doesn't seem like quite the event. However, the first one would've made more if we had the theater capacity we do today.

I'll go with 219M.

Also, to pre-empt this: it'll have a much bigger opening weekend than Star Wars, even though Star Wars has much, much more hype.

 

[cacildo]

$250 million.

People give no shit about reviews.

Are the reviews that bad?

 

[IncandescentPrecept]

Star Wars will break even more records.

It won't.

$216M, which is exactly what Avengers made, adjusted for inflation.

 

[higgsboson1997]

$250 million.

People give no shit about reviews.

Even if they do, 84% is a very good score.

 

[Bacon]

3 billion.

this feels right

 

[KenPokesBarbie]

I figure it will break the record but not by too much. $216 million is my guess.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

$230 mil

 

[infi]

$183million

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Even if it breaks the first's record, it will have a big asterisk next to it since this starts at 7pm Thursday. The first one began at midnight.

 

[dankir]

170m

Less? No man, you underestimate the purchasing power of all the comic book geeks in the world.

My wife never heard of any comic book character before she met me. Even she's hyped for this film and pretty much all future marvel films.

I'm saying 225 - 230.

 

[Toothless]

I think opening weekend will be higher by a noticeable degree, but the following weekends will be the same if not a little higher.

That marvel money tho.

If we're gonna do a breakdown....

OW: 219M
Week 2: 109M (394M
Week 3: 59M (484M)
Week 4: 32M (533M)
Week 5: 14M (562M)

Total: 602M

Hmm, that turned higher than I expected.

 

[darkwing]

$249,281,822.56

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Even if it breaks the first's record, it will have a big asterisk next to it since this starts at 7pm Thursday. The first one began at midnight.

7pm Thursday has effectively replaced Midnight Thursday, though. It likely won't make any real difference.

 

[BronsonLee]

240 mil because of the 7 PM Thursday screenings.

If we don't count those, 220.

Edit: Dammit Bobby

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

$350,000,000

 

[Toothless]

Even if it breaks the first's record, it will have a big asterisk next to it since this starts at 7pm Thursday. The first one began at midnight.

That's just the way the times change; there used to not even be midnight shows. If you went by this logic, no movie ever is going to beat Avengers opening weekend thanks to theater capacity.