Ant-Man Research Paper

As a rule, a great movie brings in revenue,“Ice Age” made $386,116,343 world wide in theaters. According to the numbers.com “Ice Age” made $386,116,343 compared to bad grandpa a movie made in 2013 which on $160,903,019. Bad grandpa made a total of 188,672,437 while “Ice Age” made a total of $403,841,637. “Ice Age” made more money than bad grandpa according to the Box office Mojo.

While observing the set Lucas says that the set is so much better than his set and the movie will make much more money than Star Wars to Lucas’s dismay. Lucas also said “Oh my God, your movie is better than Star Wars! This is gonna be the biggest hit of all time. I can’t believe this set” Lucas said he would trade some earnings with Spielberg. They would each trade 2.5 percent of their movies earnings to each other. Then Spielberg agreed to the bet but actually Star Wars made $775 million at the box office and close encounters only making $304 million. Though Lucas did not lose much money since after the movie he was still a billionaire so there was not a giant hole in his wallet after the bet which surprised Lucas. He was very surprised that Star Wars got almost double the earning of close encounters and now had so much money.

(which Cruise was once rumoured to star in) opened in third with a disappointing $13.4 million despite mostly positive reviews. 20th Century Fox’s Fantastic Four reboot continues to be anything but fantastic, as it slid down to fourth spot in only it’s second weekend with $8.1 million, while The Gift continued to pleasantly surprise the suits at Lionsgate as it held down the fifth spot and added another $6.5 million to its total. The Gift isn’t going to break any records but considering the low budget suspense movie has collected $23.5 million over its two week run during blockbuster season, it has to be considered a solid summer success

Who was the make the most movies? Marvel has made 48 movies, which grossed $11.8 billion in North America. DC has

In 2012, the Walt Disney Co. offered $4 billion to Lucasfilm in order to purchase the rights to the global phenomenon that is the ‘Star Wars’ franchise. As opposed, many professional analysts believed this was a bad move on Disney’s part, as it seemed to be too large of a sum for a franchise that hadn’t produced anything new since the underwhelming trilogy of 2005. However, three years later, the same analysts would come to believe the exact opposite. When ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ was released in 2015, it grossed a solid $2 billion at the box office.

Even as it declines to a slim 21% from its opening frame, the science fiction film of Ridley Scott's 'The Martian,' had no problems holding the top spot at the UK box office. After 12 days, the 'The Martian' has reaped an impressive £13.21m.

Still, the Avengers has noticeably been without one of its key ingredients. Of course, that's a reference to Ant-Man - a character that helped establish the Avengers from the ground level, at least in the pages of the source material.

Tis' the season to be generous and Marvel did exactly that with Ant-Man's release of bonus features on digital HD this November 17 and 3D Blu-Ray on December 8 with exclusive commentary from Paul Rudd.

When the film was released on May 25th 1977, it earned $461 million in the U.S and around $314 million overseas with a total of $775 million. Within a year Star Wars: A New Hope became the second highest grossing in North America and the third highest grossing film in the world from a budget of 11 million. In the 1970s America was in economic bloom as the vietnam war had given them so much money that children and parents had enough money to go the films as the average income had doubled since the end of the second world war. The Star Wars Corporations was eventually bought by Disney in 2012 when Lucas retired, Disney bought the franchise as they knew they could gain large economic benefit as the fanbase was so loyal to the franchise that they would go see every movie made even if Disney was producing the films. When Disney released their newest film for the Star War in 2015 directed by J.J Abrams, the film made $2.068 billion in the box office breaking many box office records from a budget of $306 million USD compared to Star Wars: The Clone War which had a budget of 8.5 million and made 68.3 in the box office, a lot the success of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is because of the franchises pre-existing fanbase. Star Wars: The Force Awakens. There have been 9 Star Wars films with another 2 expected to come out in the next three years, this is because of Star Wars large franchise so the company knows that it can make millions of dollars from the box office with each film they release. The first Star Wars has been a large influence on fox grossing $100 million in three months, Fox's stock soared from $6 to $25 per share and generated revenues of $1.2 million a day for the studio. However because the Sci-fi films are so overexposed in the media because so many new films are coming out such as; The Martian, Mad Max: Fury

Despicable Me 2, an animated film distributed by Universal Studios and Illumination Entertainment in July of 2013 grossed $970,065,385 world-wide (BoxOffice, 2014). The film was a success for its distributors and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2014 for Best Animated Feature Film. Chris Meledandri, who is the president and CEO of Illumination Entertainment, has an exclusive working agreement with Universal Studios and does the production and animation work on feature films (Barnes, 2011). Universal Studios will be considered the main distributor of the Despicable Me 2 film and will constitute the bulk of the research completed for this paper.

LEGO has continued this same strategy as it brings many fans from different brands to be able to build and play with sets that are replicas of the movies actual vehicles and various other parts from the movies or the games. To put into perspective, the LEGO Star Wars product grossed a net profit of 648.7 million euros in 2012.

Whooping total net income of $754 million, which was nearly double the performance of 2012 with a record increase of 95%, grossed $17.7 billion in

This company have released over 30 feature films and have made over 12 billion dollars worldwide. DreamWorks had a massive impact on the film and animation industry in 2001 with the release of the immensely successful film Shrek which grossed a total of $491,812,794 in the box office. This was game changer for the industry and the company as it showed that DreamWorks could challenge the likes of Disney and became one of the top animation studios in the world. Today DreamWorks has grossed $11.5 in the global box office showing it impacts the industry through its global success.

The table above is a descriptive statistics analysis of 30 random box office movies from 2016. The average domestic gross revenue is around 62.96 million while the average of the production budget is around 59.37 million. On average, all the movies stay in the theaters for about 73.5 days and in a mean of 2781 theaters.

The Bugs Bunny Film Fest, released on May 4, 1998 had generated a total of $352,000 in the domestic box office (“Movies Released in 1998”). The movie with the highest production budget during the month of May, 1998 was Godzilla with a total of $125,000,000. Godzilla racked up a estimated total of $136,314,000 in the domestic box office (‘Movies Released