Tuesday, April 5, 2016

The column line above compares the domestic gross between the best 4 Marvel/Disney movies versus the best 4 DC/WB movies. There isn't a big difference in the top #1 & #2 of each company. TDK made $534,858,444 vs the $623,357,910 by The Avengers. Next it is TDK Rises ($448,139,099) vs The Avengers 2 ($459,005,868). Now, in the third category (Man of Steel vs Iron Man 3) we can see a good difference. MoS made $291,045,518 vs the whooping $409,013,994 Iron Man 3 made. There is a $100,000,000+ difference between these movies in favor of Iron Man 3. The last two movies to compare are Batman v Superman: Dawn of the Justice ($260,408,047) vs Guardian of the Galaxy ($333,176,600). BvS still out right now, so this numbers can increase with the pass of the weeks, but to put this in context: This is Batman and Superman vs a group of unknown characters to the movies goers. That difference, almost $75,000,000, is huge if we put the different characters in these two movies. It is right to say that Marvel has the advantage in this division.

Saturday, April 2, 2016


This pie chart represents the total retail shares between comic books studios in 2015  (In parenthesis the numbers from 2014). Marvel dominated the retail share department in 2015 (38.74%). That, almost 40%, represents a huge amount if we look at the other studios such as Image (9.93%), IDW (5.59%) and Dark Horse Comics (3.79%). Even DC (25.75%) was dominated by Marvel. That is a difference of almost 13%. The cinematic universe helped Marvel to grow more and more the last couple of years because of the success of its movies. 

This line chart represents the domestic gross of the movie Batman v Superman. During its first weekend the movie was breaking records ( getting a total of $166,007,347) thanks to the anticipation of the film and the preorders, but after the Easter weekend was over, the domestic gross dropped to $44,600,446 (from March 28th to April 1st). That is almost ¼ of what the movie made the previous weekend. The movie went down 81.6% during the last week. The horrible reviews and the lack of a main plot were the main reasons why people decided to stay away from the movie.