BOX OFFICE: IRON MAN blasts off with $104 million domestic, $200 million worldwide!
An insane opening for Iron Man. Batman is going to have a huge fight on his hands to top this!
U.S. Box Office for weekend of May 2nd - May 4th 2008 1 Iron Man (2008) $101M $104M 2 Made of Honor (2008) $15.5M $15.5M 3 Baby Mama (2008) $10.3M $32.3M 4 Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) $6.13M $44.8M 5 Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) $6.01M $25.3M 6 The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) $4.2M $45.1M 7 Nim's Island (2008) $2.75M $42.5M 8 Prom Night (2008) $2.5M $41.4M 9 21 (2008) $2.1M $79.1M 10 88 Minutes (2007) $1.6M $15.4M Iron Man has really been the perfect production for Marvel. A hassle free shoot, a great cast which came together for director Jon Favreau, critical acclaim, fanboy acclaim and now some real box office gold to boot. The film which played at over 4,000 screens took home just over $100 million during it's opening weekend, which totals to $104 million if you count the Thursday openings. It's the 10th highest grossing opening of all time, a massive achievement for a non-sequel and is 60% higher than the usual Marvel film taking. It's worldwide total after 5 days is said to be an incredible $201 million, which is reported to be just under the amount it cost to film, market and distribute. And thanks to Robert Downey Jr, Jon Favreau and the rest of team on the film.. it's pushed Iron Man a slightly lesser well known superhero into the cinematic echelons of the A-listers Spider-Man, Superman, Batman and X-Men. As if anyone cares about the rest of the weekend but anyway, the wedding themed comedy Maid of Honor grossed a mediocre $15.5 million, well short of it's over blown $40 million production. Unlike the similar themed 27 Dresses, this one didn't quite carry the strong female lead and was actually more from the guy's point of view with Patrick Dempsey actually the lead. Add to that, Michelle Monaghan wasn't coming off an uber popular comedy like Katherine Heigl and at the end of the day the target audience (women) quite like Robert Downey Jr too... so I'm sure they were easily led by their boyfriends into seeing Iron Man.
