Marvel's cinema golden boy holds onto 2014 reign

Marvel's cinema golden boy holds onto 2014 reign

Godzilla the King of monster was expected to break Captain America 2 record for the year, with 98 million toppling Cap's 2014 record opening. After the jump see the results for Godzilla's debut.

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By rockinsokinrobo - May 18, 2014 08:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Captain America
Source: Deadline.com

The King of all monsters was expected to crash into theaters with a soft opening.  Godzilla was estimated to make 60 million this week, however even Hollywood couldnt anticipate the star power of Godzilla.  Godzila opend on Friday to 38.5 million dollars, dropping the initial estimate and raising the King of monsters to 98 million.  The new estimate would have surpassed Captain America 2 debut by 3 million.  The new estimates, had Warner Brothers proclaiming Godzilla being the dominant over the 2014 openings.

Deadline.com is reporting that Godzilla will debut to the amount of 93.2 million dollars. A 17 percent drop from Friday to Saturday. So for now Captain America 2 is still the the reigning champion for 2014.  With the opening of X-men next week will determine which marvel cbm will be name victor for the year of 2014 cbm opening.

Either way as a comic book fan, we all win.  This is my first article and would welcome the feedback.

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GenisVell
GenisVell - 5/18/2014, 8:29 AM
X-Men: Days of Future Past will probably surpass it. Let us see on the long run.
SuperiorMrGod
SuperiorMrGod - 5/18/2014, 8:33 AM
Just wait till Guardians and Days of Future Past.
Bekss
Bekss - 5/18/2014, 8:34 AM
GoldenOne33

Yeah some people were dissapointed but the movie is good. Some expected 2 hours of Godzilla fighting but from the beggining they said it would be like the first Godzilla were he shows up for 10-15 minutes.
Bekss
Bekss - 5/18/2014, 8:38 AM
At least in this one he has like 20 minutes of screen time and there are 2 more MUTOS
thewonderer
thewonderer - 5/18/2014, 8:43 AM
@Bekss

People like you completely do not understand this at all. Nobody expected Godzilla on screen for 2 hours. What we did expect were 2-3 onscreen fights and entertaining scenes when Godzilla was not there. I felt the film failed to deliver on both fronts.

The human characters were NOT interesting. Seriously, would anyone cite Aaron Taylor Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen's relationship as a highlight of the film?
Bekss
Bekss - 5/18/2014, 8:45 AM
thewonderer

Then I wasn't talking about you. I've seen a lot of people that thought Godzilla would be fighting all the movie.
that doesn't mean everyone was.
KallarkKent
KallarkKent - 5/18/2014, 8:48 AM
That's still a pretty great opening, specially because it shows that they need a new model to track how these movies will preform.
Bekss
Bekss - 5/18/2014, 8:51 AM
KallarKent

The predictions are almost always right, I don't think a surprise like this would make them change anything
thewonderer
thewonderer - 5/18/2014, 8:51 AM
Sorry Bekss, you said people. Read that as a mass generalization.
WinterSoldier33
WinterSoldier33 - 5/18/2014, 8:51 AM
i think x men will top it
Bekss
Bekss - 5/18/2014, 8:54 AM
thewonderer

No problem but I think I said "some people". :)
TheRationalNerd
TheRationalNerd - 5/18/2014, 8:55 AM
Well you still have to wait for Guardians as well. Guardians can really be the hardest hitting comic book movie of the year. Only time will tell but everyone already knows who I'm riding for...
grif
grif - 5/18/2014, 8:56 AM
cap 2 is the shit. i am really interested to see how big the dive will be in ticket sales next week for godzilla after people realize its a movie about people and not the monster.
TheRationalNerd
TheRationalNerd - 5/18/2014, 8:56 AM
I still gotta see Godzilla though. I'm supporting that film regardless.
ComicFan523
ComicFan523 - 5/18/2014, 8:57 AM
My guess is that X Men will probably make more than Cap but we'll see. I really enjoyed Godzilla, most people that I know that I saw it thought it was good too.
BATMANx
BATMANx - 5/18/2014, 9:03 AM
Godzilla Had no chance against Marvel Heroes or TMNT or Transformers. Sorry its the truth.
TheRationalNerd
TheRationalNerd - 5/18/2014, 9:04 AM
And these results aren't bad at all. If you keep comparing it to Cap's record of course you'll see the difference but for a film standing on it's own it's not too bad.





kinghulk
kinghulk - 5/18/2014, 9:04 AM
surprised no one has made an article yet but cap has passed 700 million worldwide
AstonishingArachnid
AstonishingArachnid - 5/18/2014, 9:08 AM
X-Men and Guardians are ensemble movies on a whole different level to the likes of Cap, Godzilla and TASM 2. X-Men will probably surpass Cap, then we'll get to see the true Battle of the summer blockbusters: DoFP vs Transformers vs Guardians. Im rooting for Guardians because regardless of how much DoFP gets at the box office we are still going to get Apocalypse, and I'm 100% fine with that.
TheRationalNerd
TheRationalNerd - 5/18/2014, 9:10 AM
@kinghulk

Wow, I just peeped it out it's at 703,000,000! Good lawd!
SuperCat
SuperCat - 5/18/2014, 9:11 AM
What @ kevberg said.
MrFridayNights
MrFridayNights - 5/18/2014, 9:11 AM
X-Men DOFP will destroy Godzilla at the box office and will be the highest grossing film of the year.
MrFridayNights
MrFridayNights - 5/18/2014, 9:13 AM
X-Men DOFP will get 1billion at the box office.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 5/18/2014, 9:13 AM
'MURICA!!
comicle199
comicle199 - 5/18/2014, 9:17 AM
It's always something with the fans on this site, I saw godzilla on the weekend and it was a brilliant film, just when you thought cgi couldn't get any better it did and cranston put the same epic performance into his character as he did to walter white. I personally thought that there was a lot of godzilla and the fight scenes were brilliant but I do ask the question of just how fan boys expect a director to come from the perspective of a giant groaning lizard as opposed to the people, we have to remember that godzilla is effectively a natural disaster, I mean did you criticise the perfect storm for not using the storms perspective
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