The summer’s two powerhouses crossed significant milestones in worldwide box office, with Marvel’s The Avengers getting to $1.5 billion and The Dark Knight Rises crossing $1 billion. Avengers is the #3 movie on the all-time worldwide box office list (far behind #2 Titanic‘s $2.185 billion). Dark Knight Rises is currently #12 all time (just behind #11 Alice in Wonderland‘s $1.024 billion). Conceivably, it could get to #10 all time (in between the $1.044 billion for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and the $1.027 billion for Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace).
Ice Age: Continental Drift is finally starting to slow down overseas (up a relatively small $10 million overseas since last week). The worldwide total for Ice Age 4 will probably settle around a phenomenal $845 million.
The Expendables 2 had a good week overseas (up $44 million to $67 million overseas to date). The sequel should easily get to a fairly decent $200 million overseas (but still well below the $274 million worldwide total for the original film — $103 million domestic and $171 million overseas two years ago).
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