There's one Hollywood-produced blockbuster dominating in China, one waiting patiently in the wings, and one that will soon use the country as a backdrop as its studio looks to connect with the world's fastest growing cinematic scene.

The second weekend of May is sometimes thought of as having a weird jinx, because there have been a number of movies released this weekend that haven't done very well and/or outright bombed, many times because they were overshadowed by the second weekend of the much higher profile summer opener ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Superhero movie "The Avengers" flexed its muscle a bit more on Monday, pushing its total debut weekend box office revenues to a new record $207.4 million in the United States and Canada from about $200.3 million one day earlier. The film featuring several Marvel comic book ...

Marvel's The Avengers has posted the biggest domestic opening weekend of all time with $207.4 million for May 4-6, The Walt Disney Studios announced today. The Super Hero team-up crossed the $600 million threshold at the global box office in 12 days, and its cumulative worldwide box office gross is ...

With a huge international debut last weekend, The Avengers held its grip on the box office as the No. 1 hit around the world, adding another $151.5 million to last week's tally and raising the bar on blockbusters.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:1$200.3 millionThink Like a Man $8 millionThe Hunger Games $5.7 millionThe Lucky One $5.5 millionThe Pirates! Band of Misfits $5.4 millionThe Five-Year Engagement $5.1 millionThe Raven $2.5 millionSafe $2.4 millionChimpanzee $2.3 millionThe Three Stooges $1.8 millionMarvel's The Avengers99%MovieWeb:   29 reviews94%RottenTomatoes:   233 reviews2Think Like a Man100%MovieWeb:   0 reviews52%RottenTomatoes:   77 reviews3The Hunger Games97%MovieWeb:   24 reviews85%RottenTomatoes:   244 ...

Earth's mightiest comic book heroes shattered North American box office records in the just-released "The Avengers" which debuted this weekend with an estimated $200.3 million in ticket sales, industry analysts said Sunday.

BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS:1$168.6 millionThink Like a Man $9.5 millionThe Pirates! Band of Misfits $9.1 millionThe Hunger Games $8.9 millionThe Lucky One $7.3 millionThe Five-Year Engagement $6.3 millionSafe $4.8 millionThe Raven $2.7 millionThe Three Stooges $2.2 millionThe Cabin in the Woods $1.9 millionMarvel's The Avengers99%MovieWeb:   17 reviews93%RottenTomatoes:   199 reviews2Think Like a Man100%MovieWeb:   0 reviews52%RottenTomatoes:   77 ...

It's been an interesting year so far, mainly for reasons we already discussed last week, but now we're onto the lucrative summer movie season, and it's kicking off with what's likely to be one of the biggest movies of the year and that's Marvel's The Avengers (Disney). Obviously ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "The Avengers" flexed its muscles overseas, opening at No. 1 in all 39 markets and rolling up $178 million a week ahead of its U.S. debut. Joss Whedon's superhero spectacular earned a whopping $24.7 million in the U.K., Disney's best three-day weekend ever there. It also ...

A week ahead of the North American debut, The Avengers in 3D took over the world box office, winning a huge record take of $178.4 million and gripping the No. 1 spot in all 39 markets where it opened, from Iceland to New Zealand, for the biggest haul of 2012.

The romantic comedy "Think Like A Man" topped the North American box office for the second weekend in a row, industry estimates showed Sunday.