Iron Man is Solid Gold at the Box Office
May 5, 2008 by brian
The Grand Theft Auto IV release wasn’t a factor, nor was any other film in theatres as Marvel’s Iron Man repulsor blasted his way to a $100 million weekend.
The first movie from Marvel Studios tallied $104.3 million including Thursday night previews. It was the fourth-best opening in that weekend’s history and the second highest non-sequel opening behind Spider-Man.
This film’s explosive opening catapults the lesser known Iron Man into the same stratosphere with heroes like Spidey, Batman and Superman. The movie enjoyed almost universal good press, a rarity for comic-book fare. Paramount’s exit polling said the audience was 65 percent male and 55 percent over age 25.
With that kind of opening, a minimum of two sequels is pretty much a given.
Images: Paramount Pictures 2008
Iron Man was a practically flawless hero flick; its makers drop some pretty obvious sequel hints too… i’m thinking the next one should be equally great
I loved it a lot. I hope they can keep up the good work.