Tony Stark dressed in his new armor is ready to do battle in IRON MAN(2008).
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IRON Hits $300 Mil Mark, INDY Close Behind
By: Jarrod SarafinDate: Thursday, June 19, 2008
As indicated in Sunday's Mania box office report, Iron Man is crossing the $300 mil domestic mark this week. In fact, the Jon Favrea-directed adaptation of the Marvel superhero is crossing that mark today and is expected to be somewhere around $301.0 by this afternoon. Through Tuesday's closing numbers, the film was sitting at the $299.3 mil and it's averaging $700,000 on weekdays entering its 8th week of release.
The film will be the first one to hit that plateau of 2008. If you include the $249.5 mil foreign gross as of last weekend, the film has pulled in $548.8 mil (likely $550 mil as of this afternoon). Iron is still showing on 2,403 theaters across the nation.
Meanwhile, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will likely be the 2nd film of 2008 to cross the $300.0 mil domestic mark in the next few weeks. While the Robert Downey Jr. film is entering its 8th week of release, Indy is only in its 5th week and it already has $279.4 mil as of Tuesday. It's averaging $1-$2 mil a day and still showing on 3,804 theaters across the nation. If you include the foreign gross of $359.4, the film is the highest worldwide grosser of 2008 with $638.9 mil.
Both films are being distributed by Paramount Pictures. Add on the fact that Paramount also has Kung Fu Panda sitting at the $126.0 mil mark in its second full week of release and it's easy to say which studio is the top performer of 2008 thus far. There's two more Paramount films this summer, one being Michael Myers' Love Guru this weekend and the other being Tropic Thunder on August 15, 2008.
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