Guardians Of The Galaxy Opening Weekend Box Office Is Tracking For $60 Million Plus

The Wrap is reporting that Guardians of the Galaxy is projected for an opening weekend take of at least $60 million at the U.S box office.

This is a good sign for Marvel, as Guardians of the Galaxy stars the most obscure set of characters to be featured in their cinematic universe so far, with a sizable budget of $170 million. Marvel has already had one big success this year, with the record-breaking April opening of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and is surely hoping that their Guardians of the Galaxy gamble pays off by launching another successful franchise.

Guardians of the Galaxy is directed by James Gunn, and stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Lee Pace, Djimon Hounsou, Benicio del Toro, Karen Gillan and the voices of Bradley Cooper and Vin Deisel.

From Marvel, the studio that brought you the global blockbuster franchises of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, comes a new team—the Guardians of the Galaxy. An action-packed, epic space adventure, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the cosmos, where brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade the ever-persistent Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits—Rocket, a gun-toting raccoon, Groot, a tree-like humanoid, the deadly and enigmatic Gamora and the revenge-driven Drax the Destroyer. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand—with the galaxy's fate in the balance.

Guardians of the Galaxy opens August 1, 2014.