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How much do superhero movies make? Let's be real, any creator that works on a superhero movie can't wait to cash their next paycheck because it's going to be a lot. For big-budget movies, Time.com reports that camera operators make up to $154,000 a year. Big budgets should mean two things: A-list actors and a world-class camera crew. Outside of The Dark Knight series, DC superhero films haven't been able to capitalize on this profitable business, so you will notice many have failed to reach the top 10.
Top 10 Richest or Wealthiest DC/Marvel Superhero Movies. Graph is in billions of dollars (pls excuse the misspelling). 0.903 = $903 million dollars.
An Unbiased Top 10 list of the Wealthiest DC/Marvel Superhero Movies of All Time
(by Net Profit)
How much do superhero movies make? Let's be real, any creator that works on a superhero movie can't wait to cash their next paycheck because it's going to be a lot. For big-budget movies, Time.com reports that camera operators make up to $154,000 a year. Big budgets should mean two things: A-list actors and a world-class camera crew. Outside of The Dark Knight series, DC superhero films haven't been able to capitalize on this profitable business, so you will notice many have failed to reach the top 10.
Top 10 Richest or Wealthiest DC/Marvel Superhero Movies. Graph is in billions of dollars (pls excuse the misspelling). 0.903 = $903 million dollars.
(by Net Profit)
- Avengers: Infinity War - $1.72 billion profit
- The Avengers - $1.3 billion
- Avengers: Age of Ultron - $1.16 billion
- Black Panther - $1.15 billion
- Iron Man 3 - $1.02 billion
- Captain America: Civil War - $903 million
- The Dark Knight Rises - $835 million
- The Dark Knight - $820 million
- Deadpool - $725 million
- Spiderman: Homecoming - $705 million
Based on Profit measured by Global Revenue minus Estimated Budget. Data from IMDB.
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Coming in at #1, we all can understand how Avengers: Infinity War earned its place at the top. There was so much hype leading up to this massive Hollywood hit this summer that it comes at no surprise that tickets would sell like crazy. According to IMDB, this movie's opening weekend in the US grossed over $257 million, enabling Marvel Studios and the whole production crew to already make back 80% of its insane $321 million estimated budget costs.
Fun fact. We could add up the net profits for both The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, and it would still be lower than that of Infinity War. Its a little surprising to me to see how Deadpool and Spiderman: Homecoming made their way into the ranking. Both were pretty recent films and even beat out all the X-Men films, including Logan. Can't wait to see the numbers for Infinity War Part 2 coming out early next summer in 2019.
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Coming in at #1, we all can understand how Avengers: Infinity War earned its place at the top. There was so much hype leading up to this massive Hollywood hit this summer that it comes at no surprise that tickets would sell like crazy. According to IMDB, this movie's opening weekend in the US grossed over $257 million, enabling Marvel Studios and the whole production crew to already make back 80% of its insane $321 million estimated budget costs.
Fun fact. We could add up the net profits for both The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, and it would still be lower than that of Infinity War. Its a little surprising to me to see how Deadpool and Spiderman: Homecoming made their way into the ranking. Both were pretty recent films and even beat out all the X-Men films, including Logan. Can't wait to see the numbers for Infinity War Part 2 coming out early next summer in 2019.