It won’t open until next weekend in America, but much of the worldwide movie going community got their initial sampling of Walt Disney’s Avengers: Age of Ultron starting late last week, and it has already crossed the $200 million mark overseas.
The much-anticipated comic book superhero sequel debuted on April 22nd and expanded through the week into around 55% of its would-be worldwide market. It earned $9.5 million in total on its first day and it upped its total to $44.8 million worldwide heading into the weekend.
It will expand to most of the rest of the world over the next week, with high profile debuts in America on May 1st, China on May 12th, and Japan on July 4th. And with the first extended weekend accounted for, the $250 million production has earned $201.2 million worldwide.
By the way, it earned $10.7m of that in IMAX, netting the company’s biggest overseas “not with China” debut ever Read More
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
PG-13 | 141 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 1 May 2015 (USA)
IMDB: Ratings: 8.3/10 from 56,404 users Metascore: 71/100 Reviews: 306 user | 222 critic
