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OT - Just received a tweet that Captain America is officially on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/ChrisEvans

Still can't believe you guys turned RTH away.

No nightly update from RTHeimdall?Man, did your guy's sarcasm scare him off from 2 nights ago?

Cool! I like posting on the TDKR forums, they're okay. Don't know how they were back then during your time posting. Speaking of which, the funny thing is that, before it multiplied into a big TDKR board, SHH started simply as a Spider-Man film forum some few years back.And I do also post in CBR

Yes, I was talking about other forums. Mostly other forums, like music and sports forums that have off-topic boards discussing movies.And yes, I do post at SHH too which, thanks to posters like Chewy was what guided me to this fancy forum!

Today is apparently not just any Monday, but a "we want to be cool so let's all hate on The Avengers because it's doing so well in the box office" kind of Monday.LOL at people in other forums. It was just a matter of time for this to happen.Apparently it's cool if you hate The Avengers, but it's even cooler if you haven't seen The Avengers and also hate it. :rolleyes:In the end, no one can argue with a 93% critic rating, an A+ Cinemascore, and 96% of over 300,000 people who liked it:http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/marvels_the_avengers/^ Now that's cool.

I knew it, I knew Rth is from Asgard!47% drop from last Sunday = $30.245 million45% drop from last Sunday = $31.386 millionThanks oh thou mighty Rth.

@StephanieRamon Went to see the Avengers. But it was sold out so I had to go see Dark Shadows. You win this time population crisis.

Trina M. Lee ‏ @TrinaMLee https://twitter.com/...423928600707073 Tweeted at 2 pm Second tweet doesn't exist Unknown ‏ @julieortiz_ https://twitter.com/...334675564797954 Tweeted at 8 am morning John Lopes ‏ @BodegaJay https://twitter.com/...321094710427648 Tweeted at 7 am morning Benjamin Becotte ‏ @benjaminbecotte https://twitter.com/...588342453641216 Tweeted at 12 pm on... May 7th (Monday)

Lol, your tweet links are either from "late last night", or from a previous day! Trina M. Lee ‏ @TrinaMLee Unknown ‏ @julieortiz_ John Lopes ‏ @BodegaJay Benjamin Becotte ‏ @benjaminbecotte Some of 'em were tweets from Thursday!

@Kayla_Laird Date night. Avengers was sold out @AnnaUumellmahay I thought I was cursed to only see awful films today... The Lucky One/Dark Shadows. And then Avengers saved me. Thank you Loki & co.

Love it when you guys say "(insert figure) is in play!" Hits my funny bone!

Funny tweet: @sween In line for "The Avengers". Beside us is a line for "Dark Shadows". I see men look at me over their date's shoulders. Their eyes haunt me.

If so, Disney should've "fudge" the $207M numbers last week to make it $210M.

What's this "fudge" the numbers really mean?

Since we're in the Avatar topic... Just a perfect moment to use this:

In other news... http://www.huffingto..._n_1500762.html Shawarma Sales 80% up thanks to 'Avengers' post-credit Scene

http://www.deadline.com/2012/05/dark-shadows-opens-with-550k-midnights/ Nikki's headline: FIRST BOX OFFICE: ‘Dark Shadows’ Disappointing $27M-$30M Weekend: ‘The Avengers’ Nearing $1B Global Cume & $80+M Domestic Friday 1PM: Coming...

Kind of a newbie question: Q: Has been there some kind of study that says movies released in the Summer months fare better in the long run than movies released in the Spring months? I know that Summer weekdays are higher than Spring weekdays, but that Spring weekends are way higher than Summer weekends, and that both their M-F totals would eventually even out. But I could make an argument that a film like The Avengers could do even better in the Summer. In a month like May, you still have school (obviously), TV shows trying to wrap up their season, sports every night like MLB and even the NBA Playoffs going on. Spring movies usually don't last as long since they have to make room for the other Summer big guns. In a month like July, people are out of school, TV shows have just ended and are now on re-runs, only the MLB is playing. Not only that but Summer movies can last longer in theaters because the upcoming Fall movies don't have quite the same "guns". Reason for the question is that me and a couple of my co-workers who haven't seen The Avengers were planning on seeing it Saturday. We're mostly all NBA fans and it's now the NBA Playoffs. We couldn't do it in our usual time tonight, Friday, since some of the people in my group are Clippers fans and there's an elimination game tonight, so we all made an agreement to go to see The Avengers on Saturday instead. But those plans were ruined last night because the Lakers, who is a much bigger deal here in So Cali, lost a game and now would have to play a Game 7 elimination game this coming Saturday. So that means we're going to have to re-schedule our movie weekened for next Saturday instead (and you know what often happens when you put something off - you often put it off again and again until the hype dies down, or someone in your group won't be able to make it). That was 12 people that could've seen The Avengers this Saturday, and that's just my group. There are millions of people that watch these Playoffs games, people whose demographics are The Avengers' target audience. My other question is that do Studios try to reserve dates years and years ahead of time? I'm just wondering because it seems Warner Bros loves putting out all their big guns in July from Harry Potter to their Chris Nolan's films (Batman to Inception). Anyway it was just something I've been really curious to know.

Gotcha.

That means Nikki has an account here then?

Thank you. Looking at TDK's chart closely, looks like the re-release and re-re-release dates were: 1st - November 14, 2008 = getting a 220+ jump in screens. 2nd - January 23, 2009 = getting over 340+ more screens. Prior to the re-release and re-re-releases, it made $528.3 million domestically, and just short of a billion with about $996.9 million globally; but after both releases it jumped up to $533.3 million domestic, $1 billion globally which is an extra $5 million in the box office. I know Disney doesn't need to re-release much less re-re-release The Avengers to get $600 million domestically, but if they did could they also a mass an extra $5 - $8 million too? It's not much in this industry's standard but that still is cool cash of $$$ to have. P.S. And yes I agree it was WB trying to get $1 billion world wide which that extra $5 million did by putting TDK over the mark by $1.9 million.

Everyone's predicting $600-$700M total. Looking at TDK's domestic total, it's been out from July 18, 2008 all the way thru March 5, 2009. That's 8.5 months straight. I can't even pinpoint when it was re-released and re-re-released since the chart shows it's been active throughout. So is this $600-$700M predicted numbers also counting The Avengers being re-released too?

I read about that. Maybe in just particular locations. My city in particular though, and I live in So. Cali, doesn't have any showings of The Avengers in IMAX. Just DS and Wrath of the Titans... sigh.

Technically today, Thursday May 10, maybe the last day to see The Avengers in IMAX 3D in most cities because of IMAX's contract with Warner Bros.I've checked my city, and the 2 films occupying IMAX 3D for the weekend will be WB's Dark Shadows, and Wrath of the Titans (another WB film which has been out since March).No sign of The Avengers IMAX 3D in my city.