{"id":3591,"date":"2014-08-04T10:34:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T14:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/?p=3591"},"modified":"2014-08-04T11:40:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T15:40:10","slug":"marvels-guardians-of-the-galaxy-launches-to-new-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/2014\/08\/marvels-guardians-of-the-galaxy-launches-to-new-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvels Guardians of the Galaxy Launches To New Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3592\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ggposter-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"ggposter\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ggposter-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ggposter-101x150.jpg 101w, https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ggposter-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ggposter.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/>A few months ago, if you were told that Marvel was coming out with a film that featured five unlikely and unique\u00a0super heroes which included a talking raccoon \u00a0and a talking tree with a limited thee word vocabulary, \u00a0you may have said this film will be Marvel&#8217;s 2014 box office disaster joining the ranks of Disney&#8217;s\u00a02013 Lone Ranger disappointment..<\/p>\n<p>Think again people, we are talking about Marvel Studios here!<\/p>\n<p>The James Gunn directed, &#8220;Guardians of the Galaxy&#8221;\u00a0set an all time record for an U.S. August debut earning $94M and a global opening of $160.4M.<\/p>\n<p>The Marvel and Disney film\u00a0did far more business than expected, \u00a0receiving glowing reviews for its originality and an A CinemaScore from audiences. The movie, launching only the second in-house Marvel franchise after the Avengers series, received the widest release ever for an August title (4,080 theaters), and easily surpassed the debut of previous August record-holder, The Bourne Ultimatum ($69.3 million).<\/p>\n<p>Guardians secured the best showing of the year so far for an original property, as well as coming in ahead of high-profile summer franchise installments Godzilla ($93.2 million), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($91.6 million) and X-Men: Days of Future Past ($90.8 million). And it&#8217;s the third best debut of the year so far after Age of Extinction ($100 million) and fellow Marvel movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($95 million).<\/p>\n<p>Heading into the weekend, Guardians was projected to gross only \u00a0$65 million to $70 million in its domestic debut. Males made up the majority of the audience (56 percent), and especially older teens and young adult men, a coveted demo that is getting harder and harder for Hollywood to please (46 percent of the audience was between the ages of 17 and 34). Fittingly, Imax theaters delivered $17 million globally, an August best.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color: #454545;\">Guardians<\/em><span style=\"color: #454545;\">\u00a0wasn&#8217;t a cheap proposition and cost $170 million to produce. That doesn&#8217;t include Disney and Marvel&#8217;s pricey and well-waged marketing campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>source: Hollywood Reporter<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, if you were told that Marvel was coming out with a film that featured five unlikely and unique\u00a0super heroes which included a talking raccoon \u00a0and a talking tree with a limited thee word vocabulary, \u00a0you may have said this film will be Marvel&#8217;s 2014 box office disaster joining the ranks of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3596,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions\/3596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}