Iron Man 2 Has A Huge Weekend

Iron Man 2 took in $327.6 million dollars worldwide this weekend.  Not bad huh?  As for it’s North American weekend gross;

“Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios’ Iron Man 2 debuted to an estimated $133.6 million in a record 4,380 North American theaters this weekend – an average of $30,502 per theater. The opening marks the fifth-highest of all time domestically, surpassing Shrek the Third‘s $121.6 million and is the second-best opening ever for a film in May, trailing only Spider-Man 3‘s $151.1 million. On Friday, the Jon Favreau-directed sequel took in $52.3 million, which marks the seventh-best opening day, surpassing the $50 million earned by Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. Of the total, $10.2 million came from IMAX theaters, a new record for an IMAX 2D release, passing up the $8.5 million debut of Star Trek last year. The original Iron Man opened to $98.6 million domestically in 2008 and went on to earn $318.4 million in North America.”

This is obviously great news for all of us wanting to see more from this franchise as well as The Avengers films and all Marvel related properties.  We’d love to hear what everybody thought of Iron Man 2 and what you’d like to see happen to Tony Stark in the future.

Source: ComingSoon