{"id":27792,"date":"2012-05-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/07\/a-lot-of-people-assembled-for-the-avengers.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T15:48:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T21:48:59","slug":"a-lot-of-people-assembled-for-the-avengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/07\/a-lot-of-people-assembled-for-the-avengers.html","title":{"rendered":"A lot of people Assembled for "The Avengers""},"content":{"rendered":"

As another article I read put it, $200MM is a good opening weekend for all films playing combined<\/i>. And it's way more than Thor, Iron Man, and Cap earned total in their opening weekends. <\/p>\n

Well done. Don't know quite how they managed it (beyond putting out a good film that was a combined sequel of some well-received flicks), but congrats.<\/p>\n

And if that means a sequel … I do hope Joss is involved in it.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTake a seat Harry Potter. Step back Batman. Put away that arrow Katniss. There\u2019s a new king of the box office world and it\u2019s a throne shared by several superheroes. Early reports say Joss Whedon \u2018s The Avengers will end the weekend grossing $200.3 million, setting the all-time opening weekend domestic box office record by a large margin. It crushed the previous record held by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 by almost $30 million thanks in part to the second biggest Friday gross of…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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As another article I read put it, $200MM is a good opening weekend for all films playing combined. And it's way more than Thor, Iron Man, and Cap earned total in their opening weekends. Well done. Don't know quite how they managed it (beyond putting out a good film that was a combined sequel of … Continue reading “A lot of people Assembled for "The Avengers"”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,527,525],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-harry-potter","category-marvel-cinematic-universe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132193,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/09\/poster-for-rogue-one-sequel-leaked.html","url_meta":{"origin":27792,"position":0},"title":"Poster for "Rogue One" sequel leaked!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 9-Dec-16 12:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Looks like a different cast, though, which doesn't bode well. 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