Amazing Spider-Man 2 or Captain America 2, which will reach $1billion mark.

[Parasondox]

Helloo To you all,

Now lets have another bit of fun (I think) and something has grabbed my attention. I keep looking on many sites and in the comment section, people have already been predicting box office numbers. Some say either The Amazing Spider-man 2 will reach the $1billion mark internationally and others think it will be Captain America 2.

You see the thing is, I don't know.
The first Amazing Spider-man movie made, $696,859,765 Worldwide (26 August 2012), according to IMDB.
Captain America: The First Avenger made, $368,608,363 Worldwide (31 December 2011) according to IMDB.

I don't think either will make the $1billion mark so quickly and maybe Captain America 2 has a chance due to the success of the Avengers Movie but then again Thor: The Dark World didn't reach a billion. Sorry I didn't put X-Men: Days of Future Past. It's were these two movies that I say had the most comment about highest grossing profit.

What do you all think, and even if you think they won't reach $1billion, what do you think there gross profit could be?

PREDICTIONS: The Amazing Spider-man 2: $800,000,000 worldwide
Captain America: Winter Soldier: $900,000,000 worldwide

 

[Tom_green_day]

It'll be Spider Man which makes more I think. The marketing campaign is much, much better. In fact, I don't think I've seen anything at all for Captain America.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I'm thinking Spiderman. Character's been around longer and has a broader appeal. A lot of people around the world roll their eyes at "Captain America" for all the perceived jingoism.

 

[King Aragorn]

Captain America isn't as big of a household name as Spider-Man which has established itself across all forms of media, Captain America is still a baby, so to speak.

 

[B5Alpha]

I'm thinking Spiderman. Character's been around longer and has a broader appeal. A lot of people around the world roll their eyes at "Captain America" for all the perceived jingoism.

Ironically, based on what I've seen from the new movie, Captain America believes in the principles of democracy while Shield are the tyrannical jingoists.

 

[suitepee7]

i hope its not spiderman 2, the first one was fucking awful, whereas i really liked the first captain america.

i genuinely preferred spiderman 3 to the amazing spider man

 

[viranimus]

Ill go with neither.

The spiderman reboot was pretty negatively received. Captain America has always been a second string hero.

Spiderman has the advantage of bigger name recognition but disadvantage of invariably going up against other early summer blockbuster competitors. Cap has a slight advantage of being a little early, but that second string hero and being portrayed in such an unrelatable and unlikable manner as in the prior film and the Avengers followup.

So I am guessing neither will break it. Especially with Disneys oversaturation agenda pushing the marvel film universe to anime levels of repetitive, audiences can only be convinced to shell out money to see something only passingly distinguishable from what they had already paid for before.

If it does happen, it would only be on the weakness of any viable competition, from other films and even potentially game releases.

 

[TekMoney]

I'm thinking Spiderman. Character's been around longer and has a broader appeal. A lot of people around the world roll their eyes at "Captain America" for all the perceived jingoism.

Uh... Captain America first appeared in 1941. Spider-Man in 1962.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I'm thinking Spiderman. Character's been around longer and has a broader appeal. A lot of people around the world roll their eyes at "Captain America" for all the perceived jingoism.

Uh... Captain America first appeared in 1941. Spider-Man in 1962.

Spiderman's been steadily pushing movie after movie for the past 12 years. He's his own franchise. He's about to star in his 5th lead. Not to mention the immensely popular animated TV show from the 90s (1994-1998), and the 1999, 2003 and 2008 shows. Captain America on the other hand is barely making his 3rd year since his mainstream inception and has been so far the center of a single movie (with the exception of a lone 80s nostalgia trip to camp land).

Spiderman is a vastly more recognizable and popular character with the last couple of generations, up to and including this one. He was the face of the superhero revival thing in the early 2000s. He pretty much helmed it with Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 until Batman took over, and Iron Man and his buddies after that.

 

[TekMoney]

I'm thinking Spiderman. Character's been around longer and has a broader appeal. A lot of people around the world roll their eyes at "Captain America" for all the perceived jingoism.

Uh... Captain America first appeared in 1941. Spider-Man in 1962.

Yes but Spiderman's been steadily pushing movie after movie for the past 12 years. He's his own franchise. He's about to star in his 5th lead. Not to mention the immensely popular animated TV show from the 90s (1994-1998), and the 1999, 2003 and 2008 shows. Captain America on the other hand is barely making his 3rd year since his mainstream inception and has been so far the center of a single movie (with the exception of a lone 80s nostalgia trip to camp land).

Spiderman is a vastly more recognizable and popular character with the last couple of generations, up to and including this one. He was the face of the superhero revival thing in the early 2000s. He pretty much helmed it with Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 until Batman took over, and Iron Man and his buddies after that.

I absolutely agree with all that. Spider-Man is more popular by far. But he hasn't been around longer.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I'm thinking Spiderman. Character's been around longer and has a broader appeal. A lot of people around the world roll their eyes at "Captain America" for all the perceived jingoism.

Uh... Captain America first appeared in 1941. Spider-Man in 1962.

Yes but Spiderman's been steadily pushing movie after movie for the past 12 years. He's his own franchise. He's about to star in his 5th lead. Not to mention the immensely popular animated TV show from the 90s (1994-1998), and the 1999, 2003 and 2008 shows. Captain America on the other hand is barely making his 3rd year since his mainstream inception and has been so far the center of a single movie (with the exception of a lone 80s nostalgia trip to camp land).

Spiderman is a vastly more recognizable and popular character with the last couple of generations, up to and including this one. He was the face of the superhero revival thing in the early 2000s. He pretty much helmed it with Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 until Batman took over, and Iron Man and his buddies after that.

I absolutely agree with all that. Spider-Man is more popular by far. But he hasn't been around longer.

I mean he's been around longer at the movies (and TV), which is all that matters if we're gonna guess which movie is going to make more money.

 

[Tomeran]

Spiderman, probably. Despite the horrible reboot, he has waaay broader appeal then captain America. Like someone pointed out, there's a fair few people that'll roll their eyes at the mere name and probably skip it just because of that.
And then there's of course the fact that captain america at best is a "B-rate" hero, at least compared to spiderman.


Maybe captain America will get a boost due to the incredible success of the Avengers-movie, while spiderman's profits will get reduced by the dreadful reboot, but I doubt its gonna be enough to equal the two out in terms of blockbuster profits, at least not yet.

 

[Doom-Slayer]

Worldwide Box Office Figures

Captain America - $370,569,774
Amazing Spiderman - $752,216,557

/thread

Personally I would prefer Captain America do better, but it wont.

 

[gorfias]

It'll be Spider Man which makes more I think. The marketing campaign is much, much better. In fact, I don't think I've seen anything at all for Captain America.

Feast your eyes!

Worldwide Box Office Figures

Captain America - $370,569,774
Amazing Spiderman - $752,216,557

/thread

Personally I would prefer Captain America do better, but it wont.

Yeah, I think you are likely right. Both on numbers and that Cap will be better.

 

[Funyahns]

Neither will reach a billion. Captain America will probably out do Spiderman this time around due to riding the wave of success from the rest of Marvels Avengers. Thor 2 outdid the original by quite a bit. I would expect the New Captain America to earn around 5 - 550million this year.

 

[Sandernista]

While the first Amazing Spiderman did significantly better than the first Captain America, I doubt the sequel will do as well. AS was terrible and Captain America TFA was actually decent, and it has the Avengers/Scarlet Johansson buff.

 

[AD-Stu]

The first Thor movie made $449M and the second one, after The Avengers, made $633M: an increase of about 50%.

I can absolutely believe that Captain America gets a similar post-Avengers jump in profits, but that still won't get it anywhere close to a billion.

 

[Zontar]

I'd have to lean towards Cap getting more for 3 reasons: 1st is the release date, which is better for the all important first 2 weeks at the box office. The timing is much better for the all important just out of school/just on vacation clindren, teen and young adult audiance which make the bulk of these movies audiances.

2ns is the buzz. Everyone is always talking about the MCU, be it about the show, who the next movie after Ant-Man is going to be about, or just the fact that later this year there's going to be a movie with a talking racoon with a bazooka. With all the word of mouth going around, all it took was a few trailers on the internet and Winter Soldier is already the most advertised movie this year. By comparison the ads for AS 2 haven't had the same level of resenonse and the word of mouth isn't as positive (much of it being "is this going to be another Iron Man 2?" or "To many villains, not enough story").

3ed is the markets. Sony seems to be consintrating on the US domestic market, which will a large one isn't the largest nor the only one that matters. Disney seems to be going more international with its marketing, and despite what people may think the view of Cap out here in "not America" land is actually pretty possitive.