Avengers Storm the Box Office

According to the latest figures The Avengers (or 'Marvel Avengers Assemble) has taken $207,438,708 since it opened on Friday in the US. Add this to the $447,400,000 it has made worldwide since April 27th that gives it a total of $654,838,708...making it the 53rd highest grossing film ever according to the IMDB chart.

Only ten films have ever passed the $1 billion mark, but with only having been showing for five days in the US and with many going back for repeated viewings I think Whedon's film stands a chance. After all the top 10 does contain two Pirates of the Caribbean movies and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

I for one have only seen it twice so far, but will be planning another visit very shortly.

UPDATE: as of today, 14th March, the film has now taken a worldwide total of $1,002,082,000, which should place it just above  2008's The Dark Knight and below 2010's Alice in Wonderland.

 UPDATE (21/05/12): Avengers worldwide total now stands at $1, 378, 000...now placing it in 4th place in the worldwide box office chart, in between Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at no.3 and Transformers: Dark of the Moon at no. 5 - take that Batman!