Update: 'Iron Man 2' Likely Thanks to Box Office Reports

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Mon May 5, 2008 — by Matt Raub

Update: 'Iron Man 2' Likely Thanks to Box Office Reports

It's official: Iron Man is a pretty popular film...

Following up on the previous story that Iron Man placed 14th in the "highest grossing opening day," reports are now coming in that Marvel Studios' first production brought in an estimated $104 million since Thursday here in the states and an estimated $96 million overseas.

This ranks Iron Man as the 10th highest grossing film on opening weekend, and easily the highest-grossing film for 2008 thus far. The film also produced the fourth highest-grossing opening weekend ever for a superhero movie.

This will no doubt provide the go-ahead for the proposed sequel, getting Robert Downey Jr. back into the suit in around five months for an expected May 2010 release.

We'll be tracking the box office numbers for all of the big comics-related films this summer, so check back here at ComicMix for more to come!

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Adriane Nash (4:42 PM on Mon May 5, 2008)

this is what I've heard:
t even has a release date!

Iron Man 2 is set tentatively scheduled to be released on April 30, 2010.

Talk about moving quickly!

And Marvel's movie, titled The Avengers, even has a release date. It's set to come out in July 2011. We smell a 4th of July release date happening.

Things are looking well for Marvel, who's also set to release The Incredible Hulk later this summer, along with Punisher: War Zone in December.

It appears 2011 will mark an "Avengers"-themed summer for Marvel. It's The First Avenger: Captain America is set to be release on May 6, 2011, followed of course by the July release of The Avengers.

Adriane Nash (4:43 PM on Mon May 5, 2008)

*** that's thanks to PerezHilton.com

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