‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Has Massive, Record Breaking Opening
So Marvel’s newest film premiered this last weekend, and it shattered expectations. Guardians of the Galaxy was originally only expected to make $60-75 million on its opening weekend domestically, but instead crushed that figure with a jaw dropping $94 million in North America.
That makes it the third largest domestic debut this summer (behind only Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Transformers 4), and more importantly the biggest North American opening in August of all time.
Not bad for a movie based off a comic most people had never heard of.
Internationally, the film made $66.4 million, for a total opening figure of $160.4 million – which is pretty impressive too. If you want to hear our thoughts about Guardians of the Galaxy here at Nerd & Tie, go on over to our special episode of the podcast where we review the film, but you should go see the movie first.
Do it.
Like right now.
