AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (Marvel/Disney) blasted off with $27.6M from Thursday night screenings, handily beating the $18.7M for the first Avengers, although that blockbuster began its showings at midnight, while Ultron started its run at 7PM. Ultron was also far above the $15.8M earned by Furious 7 in its Thursday night debut. Sequels are expected to be more frontloaded than the first in a series, so it’s hard to extrapolate much from these numbers in terms of the movie’s weekend results, except for the unsurprising conclusion that it’s going to be huge.
With quite a few major territories still to open (including China), Ultron is also at $287.3M overseas, and its worldwide box office will be well over half a billion dollars by Sunday.
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MITCH SALEM has worked on the business side of the entertainment industry for 20 years, as a senior business affairs executive and attorney for such companies as NBC, ABC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, and BermanBraun Productions, and before that, at the NY law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. During all that, he has more or less constantly been going to the movies and watching TV, and writing about both since the 1980s. His film reviews also currently appear on screened.com and the-burg.com. In addition, he is co-writer of an episode of the television series "Felicity."
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