Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron ruled the box office this weekend with a huge $191.3 million scoring the second highest opening weekend in North America, with two other Marvel Studios films—“Marvel’s The Avengers” and Marvel’s “Iron Man 3”—holding down the first and third spots.
The international box office was equally impressive, hauling in $439.8 million for a worldwide total thus far at $631,100,000.
The film cost $250 million to make – Not bad business!
Domestically, Ultron’s $191.3 million debut accounted for 85 percent of the Top 12 box office this weekend, which is a new record ahead of Spider-Man 3’s 83 percent.
As of today, the Marvel Cinematic Universe stands on $7.786 billion, with a $708 million average across its eleven installments (Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America: The First Avengers, The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers: Age of Ultron).
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has also overtaken Harry Potter to become highest-grossing movie franchise of all time. Harry Potter had the higher film average on $965 million, but will now have to settle for second place with its eight chapters earning a combined $7.723 billion.