Marvel Avengers Assemble Smashes In At No1 Taking £15.8M At UK Box Office.

BIGGEST DISNEY 3 DAY OPENING OF ALL TIME

BIGGEST SUPERHERO MOVIE OPENING OF ALL TIME

BIGGEST SINGLE DAY TAKING FOR A DISNEY FILM OF £5.4M

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE ALONE BEATS THE ENTIRE RUNS OF THE HULK, CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THOR

NO.1 ACROSS ALL 39 INTERNATIONAL OPENINGS

Marvel Avengers Assemble smashed in at No.1 at the UK box office with a phenomenal Hulk sized 4 day weekend of £15.8m. Audiences flocked to be first to see the critically loved movie, making it the biggest opening for a superhero movie in the UK of all time and the second biggest 4 day weekend ever (behind Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix £16.5m). The hugely anticipated Marvel Avengers Assemble has already taken more than the entire UK box office runs of The Hulk (£8.29m), Captain America (£9.5m) and Thor (£14.05m).

The international box office totalled a massive $178.4 million and saw Marvel Avengers Assemble open at No.1 in all 39 countries released so far, with many countries seeing their biggest opening weekends of all time, including Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Central America, Bolivia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, New Zealand and The Philippines.

The only movie with 6 stars, Marvel Avengers Assembles Hollywood talent including Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Chris Evans as Captain America, Mark Ruffalo as The Hulk, Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye.

UK press have called Marvel Avengers Assemble “spectacular” and “the first blockbuster of the year”:

“Phenomenal,” The Sun, 5 stars

“the best comic book movie ever made” The Daily Star, 10/10

‘Avengers Assemble has emerged as the smartest, wittiest, and most unapologetically entertaining comic-book adaptation of the modern era.’ The Times, 5 stars

“fantastic superhero entertainment,” Sunday Mirror, 5 stars

“supremely entertaining,” Heat, 5 stars

‘All kinds of awesomeness goes down!’ Nuts 5 stars

“tremendous fun, thanks to a clever and witty script,” Mail on Sunday, 4 stars

Marvel Avengers Assemble is the eagerly anticipated first Avengers film, bringing together some of Marvel’s most loved superhero characters in the biggest superhero movie in history. Directed by Joss Whedon, the film stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Tom Hiddleston, with Stellan Skarsgård and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, from a story by Zak Penn and Joss Whedon with screenplay by Joss Whedon, “Marvel Avengers Assemble” is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series “The Avengers,” first published in 1963 and a comics institution ever since.