1 Billion Dollars - that's the official worldwide gross for Marvel's The Avengers. Friday, May 11th 2012, U.S. estimates are in at $29 million beating out Tim Burton's Dark Shadows. It also beat Dark Knights second week gross, which earned $26 million US in it's 2nd week. The Avengers set a new record with its $299.1 million total through eight days in theaters. Over all Avengers took in $103.2 million to lead for a second-straight weekend and raised its domestic total to $373.2 million while raking in $95.4 million overseas lifting its international receipts to $628.9 million. Together the reported take for the super hero team-up battle fest comes to a whopping $1,002,082,000. Not only is this excellent news for Marvel/Disney and geeks around the world, and crazy thing is it's just the 2nd weekend and the numbers look like they are going to kick ass and take many names before this is all done.
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