Now that the summer movie season has technically ended with labor day, lets take a look back at the winners & losers. The season may be technically over but the weekend of September 9 - 11 still holds four comic films in the Top 50! At # 17 is the All-American classic, Captain America bringing in an additional $845,000, followed by Cowboys & Aliens at # 18 with almost $828,000. The newer released Conan The Barbarian falls to # 31 with $303,000. Jump another ten spots to # 41, Green Lantern brings in another $115,000. It may be out of the top 50 and even with its video debut this week, X-Men: First Class still had a small box office market at $30,000. With all that said, it may still be a bit premature to give total final numbers for Captain America and Cowboys & Aliens who both took in nearly $1 Million each, but lets take a look anyways.
2011 is another billion dollar year at the box office for comic movies, but no unbelievably massive films like Dark Knight or the Spider-Man films which took over or near a billion dollars themselves, although the top 3 are still respectable blockbusters. Marvel Comics holds its reign as the new king of comic book films. Thor and X-Men hold the top 2 spots, but Captain America is barely behind X-Men by a few million. X-Men is hopeful insight to Sony Pictures regarding its Spider-Man reboot next year. Audiences still flock to the mutants even after 4 films and a new cast. Green Lantern unfortunately would be the biggest loser of the expected blockbusters because of its high budget and massive marketing campaign that cost nearly $300 Million, leaving question to its own franchise and the future of DC Comics films beyond Superman and Batman. Aside from the traditional super heroes, Cowboys & Aliens was the only comic fare to even be noticeable, yet it remains disappointing and worldwide receipts still a few million under its budget.
Foreign results and upcoming receipts could change these numbers slightly. The nearly final breakdowns are this:
TITLE DOMESTIC WORLDWIDE
Thor $181,030,624 $448,512,824
X-Men: First Class $146,358,175 $352,566,560
Captain America $173,459,663 $348,459,663
Green Lantern $116,464,125 $219,714,125
Cowboys & Aliens $98,041,821 $156,541,821
Priest $29,136,626 $77,571,419
Conan The Barbarian $20,920,882 $48,420,882
Dylan Dog: Dead Of Night $1,186,538 $4,634,062
2011 is another billion dollar year at the box office for comic movies, but no unbelievably massive films like Dark Knight or the Spider-Man films which took over or near a billion dollars themselves, although the top 3 are still respectable blockbusters. Marvel Comics holds its reign as the new king of comic book films. Thor and X-Men hold the top 2 spots, but Captain America is barely behind X-Men by a few million. X-Men is hopeful insight to Sony Pictures regarding its Spider-Man reboot next year. Audiences still flock to the mutants even after 4 films and a new cast. Green Lantern unfortunately would be the biggest loser of the expected blockbusters because of its high budget and massive marketing campaign that cost nearly $300 Million, leaving question to its own franchise and the future of DC Comics films beyond Superman and Batman. Aside from the traditional super heroes, Cowboys & Aliens was the only comic fare to even be noticeable, yet it remains disappointing and worldwide receipts still a few million under its budget.
Foreign results and upcoming receipts could change these numbers slightly. The nearly final breakdowns are this:
TITLE DOMESTIC WORLDWIDE
Thor $181,030,624 $448,512,824
X-Men: First Class $146,358,175 $352,566,560
Captain America $173,459,663 $348,459,663
Green Lantern $116,464,125 $219,714,125
Cowboys & Aliens $98,041,821 $156,541,821
Priest $29,136,626 $77,571,419
Conan The Barbarian $20,920,882 $48,420,882
Dylan Dog: Dead Of Night $1,186,538 $4,634,062
