AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Crushes The Weekend Box Office With $187.7 Million

Moviegoers were ready to kick the 2015 summer box office into high gear over the first weekend in May.

While it didn’t top it’s 2012 predecessor ($207.4M), AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON saw domestic ticket sales in the neighborhood of $187.7 million in it’s opening weekend.

Even SNL got in on the AVENGERS hoopla with this Black Widow/Ultron spoof.

Rentrak’s Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian commented, “Disney/Marvel’s ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ has assembled an amazing box office performance since its debut, grossing an estimated $627 million in 12 days of global release. Debuting at #1 in every market since beginning its international rollout on April 22, the film has generated an estimated $439 million at the international box office overall. Universal’s ‘Furious 7’ with a current worldwide gross of $1.429 billion, this week has become the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time worldwide.”

The top 12 domestic weekend box office estimates, listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, May 3, 2015, are below.

1. Avengers: Age Of Ultron – Disney – $187.7M Read Jim Batts’ review here.
2. Age Of Adaline, The – Lionsgate – $6.2M
3. Furious 7 – Universal – $6.1M
4. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 – Sony – $5.5M
5. Home – 20th Century Fox – $3.3M
6. Cinderella – Disney – $2.4M
7. Ex Machina – A24 Films – $2.2M
8. Unfriended – Universal – $2.0M
9. Longest Ride, The – 20th Century Fox – $1.7M
10. Woman In Gold – The Weinstein Company – $1.7M
11. Monkey Kingdom – Disney – $1.2M
12. Get Hard – Warner Bros. – $1.1M

The top 12 worldwide weekend box office estimates, listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, May 3, 2015, are below.

1. Avengers: Age Of Ultron – Disney – $355.7M
2. Furious 7 – Universal – $58.9M
3. Silent Separation – Levinson Prod – $28.0M
4. Home – 20th Century Fox – $20.3M
5. Helios – Multiple – $16.9M
6. Left Ear, The – Multiple – $15.5M
7. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 – Sony – $9.8M
8. Cinderella – Disney – $9.4M
9. Age Of Adaline, The – Multiple – $7.8M
10. Unfriended – Universal – $5.6M
11. Longest Ride, The – 20th Century Fox – $5.2M