The Dunesday event is set to be huge according to the first long-range box-office estimates.
Box-Office Theory reports that the weekend of December 18th looks set to potentially break the biggest aggregate box office weekend record of all time, surpassing the previous benchmark set on the July 31st weekend.
That weekend was $437.1 million and was buoyed heavily by the domestic opening weekend record-making “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” at $360.1 million, along with the $51.1 million third weekend hold of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”.
Early estimates now have the December 18th-20th domestic box-office weekend looking to come in at over $440 million with “Avengers: Doomsday” tracking for a $340-370 million start while “Dune: Part Three” on its IMAX-exclusive screens is headed for a $91-100+ million debut.
Talking with Empire, Marvel’s Kevin Feige called “Avengers: Doomsday” a “fun way to culminate a quarter-century of storytelling” regarding its inclusion of original “X-Men” characters.
James Marsden also spoke about Cyclops’ appearance in the film, saying: “I like to think of Scott as a noble and good man, who, at the end of the day, will do the right thing. It probably reveals quite a lot about your character, what you’re willing to do. And it’s not black and white. It has a lot of very serious, potentially catastrophic implications.”
