Four Of The Eight Highest Grossing Movies This Year At Box Office Are Based On Marvel Characters

This weekend Marvel Studios is celebrating Guardians of the Galaxy rising to the #1 spot at the U.S. box office for 2014. To reach the top spot, Guardians of the Galaxy had to knock Captain America: The Winter Solider another Marvel Studios film to the #2 spot.

But Marvel’s dominance of the box office goes far beyond just what Marvel Studios is doing. Four of the top eight highest grossing movies of the year at the U.S. box office are based on Marvel Comics characters.

X-Men: Days of Future Past from Twentieth Century Fox is the sixth highest grossing movie of the year at the U.S. box office, while The Amazing Spider-Man 2 from Sony Pictures is the eighth highest grossing movie of the year.

Combined the four films based on Marvel Comics characters have grossed a total of $970,495,505, and there’s a very good chance the total will cross over a billion dollars by the time Guardians of the Galaxy finishes its run.

The box office dominance isn’t just limited to the U.S. Marvel also has four of the eight top spots at the worldwide box office. At the worldwide box office, the four films based on Marvel Comics characters have grossed over $2.71 billion.

With Marvel Studios going to three films in some upcoming years, Warner Bros. releasing at least two DC Comics films a year, and Sony Pictures and Fox releasing at least one each, we could soon be looking at a U.S. and worldwide box office where seventy percent of the top ten films are comic book movies.