Not long ago, people were convinced that Guardians of the Galaxy was too minor a franchise with too goofy a premise to succeed at the box office. Disney shut those critics up this morning, reporting a weekend haul of $94-million dollars – the biggest August opening of all time.
August’s previous record-holder? The Bourne Ultimatum, which, in 2007, opened with a $69.2-million weekend.
GotG’s colossal weekend makes its opening the third-biggest of the year, trailing just behind Transformers 4’s $97.5-million release and Captain America: The Winter Soldier’s $95-million opening. Overseas, GotG debuted to $66.4-million. For those of you keeping score at home, $65–70M iswhat the film was originally projected to grosshere in the U.S. – that it met that projection overseas, and outstripped it domestically by fifty percent, is huge. Just huge.
All together now: Oh. Yeah.
[THR]
