Comic Book Movies Rake in Over 3 Billion Dollars in 2009

Comic Book Movies Rake in Over 3 Billion Dollars in 2009

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By grif - Jan 01, 2010 12:01 AM EST
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Astroboy 21 million
Dragonball 57 million
STREET FIGHTER:THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI 13 million
Watchmen 185 million
Star Trek 385 million
Final destination 4 152 million
X-MEN ORIGINS:WOLVERINE 373 million
Push 48 million
Whiteout 12 million
JENNIFER'S BODY 19 million
G.I. JOE:THE RISE OF COBRA 301 million
TRANSFORMERS:REVENGE OF THE FALLEN 835 million
TERMINATOR SALVATION 372 million
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS:THE SQUEAKQUEL 168 million
SHERLOCK HOLMES 93 million in the us
Saw VI 31 million
Toy Story/ Toy Story 2 in 3d 31 million
SURROGATES 61 million

If I missed anything. Let me know.

And for those curious.
Avatar 745 million
District 9 204 million

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ThisFan
ThisFan - 1/1/2010, 12:51 AM
Thats a lot of money
TheGambitFreak
TheGambitFreak - 1/1/2010, 3:16 AM
can i have some of that money? lol
Instantclassic
Instantclassic - 1/1/2010, 3:53 AM
Looks very accurate
jazzman
jazzman - 1/1/2010, 4:51 AM
hold on aint some of them aint comic book movies
TheBumblingIdiot
TheBumblingIdiot - 1/1/2010, 4:58 AM
toy story saw push Fd JENNIFER'S BODY i may be wrong but there not cbms y are they up here
TheBumblingIdiot
TheBumblingIdiot - 1/1/2010, 5:01 AM
great scotts jazzman your wright sorry for repeting what you said
ThunderCougarFalconBird
ThunderCougarFalconBird - 1/1/2010, 5:34 AM
@ Jazzman & darkknight - You'd be suprised at some of the films and even tv shows that are also comics, even Supernatural has a comic series.
DJGemma
DJGemma - 1/1/2010, 7:49 AM
can i see some of that $??
1chris2
1chris2 - 1/1/2010, 8:32 AM
i liked terminator best of all of them,and x-men wolferine after that and transformers after that but those three being the best still needed work on story,and characters,and a little less action.
jazzman
jazzman - 1/1/2010, 8:36 AM
@grif

ok i did not know Saw and Jennifer's Body have one

GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 1/1/2010, 8:48 AM
ITS THE RECESSION I GUESS, PEOPLE WANT AN "ESCAPE"
Minotauro
Minotauro - 1/1/2010, 9:20 AM
I predict by 2014 the fad dies down..
ThisFan
ThisFan - 1/1/2010, 9:21 AM
@grif doesnt avatar have a comic book on its way?
Sonny
Sonny - 1/1/2010, 9:26 AM
Final destination was a comic ?
jjmeylar
jjmeylar - 1/1/2010, 9:26 AM
Chun Li only got 13 mil? You know, I really liked that film. *suits up in War Machine armor and prepares to be bombed by following posts*
Minotauro
Minotauro - 1/1/2010, 9:49 AM
@Axl - Probably..
Betty
Betty - 1/1/2010, 10:47 AM
grif-- You made an article?!
foxfan
foxfan - 1/1/2010, 11:16 AM
idk it's hard for me to call some of these movies CBMs. how should we define a CBM? perhaps a movie whose origin is in comic books? chun li, for example, has her origin in a video game (unless i've overlooked something). but, if the movie was taken directly from a graphic novel or something, i'd say "okay, that's a CBM." but i'm thinkin' chun li is more like, well, a video-game-movie. right?

not trying to argue, just some food for thought. like to know what others think.
Phinehas
Phinehas - 1/1/2010, 11:48 AM
I suppose that there is a general assumption that such products as Street Fighter or Alvin and the Chipmunks find their repective demographics with CBMers.
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 1/1/2010, 12:25 PM
GRIF @ Dude they may have comics but most ain't classed as CBM's if the comic comes out after the movie or the comics from a cartoon or something, anyway nice to know what all them movies made!

Happy New Years!!
flames809
flames809 - 1/1/2010, 1:10 PM
saw g.i.joe and avatar in the movies and saw [frick]ing district 9 in the movies lucky i didn't pay for the tickets
Benji
Benji - 1/1/2010, 1:30 PM
avatar [frick]'n blows the only reason that it made so much money is cause the advertised the shit out of it. when you push something that hard people are gonna have to go see it. the seven hundred and forty something people that saw it probably thought it was garbage
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 1/1/2010, 2:08 PM
Benji @ your thinking sherlock holmes lol!
DDD
DDD - 1/1/2010, 2:23 PM
Fantastic Axl@ Soundgarden's reunited!

Avatar and District 9 are in no way shape or form a CBM but
I guess we're doin' all sci-fi on here now!

I still don't think Avatar is much of a movie and I hate
3-D with a passion! My eyes have a problem with it and
its a cheap parlor trick to make you think a movie is
better than it really is! Good movies don't need 3-D!!

And I'm liking Worthington less and less with each
movie he does but other than that....HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Gose
Gose - 1/1/2010, 2:27 PM
James Cameron for the next SPIDERMAN movie ...
Happy New Year !!!
CRITIC17
CRITIC17 - 1/1/2010, 2:49 PM
@DDD: Clash of the Titans looks pretty good though...

@Gose: Hell yeah to that!!!

@BulliedNerd: Don't be an asshole. Unless you were just kidding.

@Flames: Why man?? Avatar and District 9 ROCKED!!!!
valeriesghost
valeriesghost - 1/1/2010, 3:02 PM
@AXL SOUNDGARDEN!! YIIPPPEEEEE
DDD
DDD - 1/1/2010, 3:15 PM
TheCritic@ I'm not saying that Avatar
is a piece of crap I'm just saying
3-D is not necessary if a movie is
done well. My eyes have trouble with 3-D
so hopefully they will have a non 3-D
form of Avatar on blue ray!

Movies for me at home are not that bad
'cause I have my company's awesome surround
sound theater speaker prototypes in my living room-
A-V room and a huge widescreen! Its almost like
being at the movies with the screen and our
speakers are superior and louder than theater
speakers. They're frightening in the small room of
my A-V-room/living room when I turn them up loud!

Our subwoofer is 2000 watts into 1 ohm impedance,
which would be equivalent to 8000 watts into 8
ohms, which 8-ohms is the norm. Its a monstrous
subwoofer!
lol
lvlheaded
lvlheaded - 1/1/2010, 3:29 PM
i would say there is a big difference between comic book movies and movie comic books.
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 1/1/2010, 4:35 PM
Wow, thats one hell of a lot of cash! Good article grif!

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Pojack
Pojack - 1/1/2010, 5:41 PM
Yeah calling Sherlock Holmes a comic book movie is a little bit of stretch, he is a public domain character with a lot of different interpretations in current media.
Nightwing09
Nightwing09 - 1/1/2010, 5:46 PM

WOW
jjmeylar
jjmeylar - 1/1/2010, 7:58 PM
Since when are the "Saw" films comic book movies? Same for "Toy Story", "Sherlock Holmes", "Street Fighter", and quite a few others.
jusme6
jusme6 - 1/1/2010, 10:14 PM
@JJMeylar: I'm pretty sure the concept for the Sherlock Holmes movie came from a Sherlock Holms comic book. Street Fighter MAY have been a comic book, but to say the same for Saw or Toy Story would be a huge stretch.

Wow! Transformers dominated the hell out this year.
KeepItReal
KeepItReal - 1/1/2010, 11:24 PM
hey everyone..



JJMeylar & jusme6: ikr! :D
CRITIC17
CRITIC17 - 1/2/2010, 12:29 AM
@DDD: Its funny that I actually understood some of what you just said... ;) Nuff said though man!
parascythe
parascythe - 1/2/2010, 8:24 AM
i wonder how much iron man 2 would do...
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