Will "Iron Man 2" beat "Dark Knight"?

29 April 2010 on the big screens back Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, and other characters in "Iron Man". The story about another superhero is artless name with serial number 2 and again invites the viewer to immerse themselves in an ingenious and eccentric atmosphere of comics.

And there is every reason to believe that the charges will install a new sequel box office record.

Even the Stark, despite the absence of allegations of false modesty, can hardly afford such a loud statement. But, nevertheless, this prediction feasible.

According to newly released polls that track the audience's expectations of future prime minister, the second part marvelovskoy franchise from director John Favreau just can boast impressive results. All statistics confidently say that "Iron Man 2" could surpass the achievement of " Dark Knight "two years ago. Recall that the famous film by Christopher Nolan so far is the record for the charges first weekend (158,4 million - excluding inflation) and is deservedly considered a role model in the issue of "cream skimming".

Recall also that the second place in this ranking is the third (and last to date) of the adventures of Spider-Man (151.1 million), and an honorary third step of the podium - a sequel to the youth vampire film " Twilight. New Moon "(142,8 million). As you can see, all three first places are occupied not the originals, and sequels. Moreover, in the top ten films in general, only two non-sequel or trikvelom. This recent "Alice in Wonderland" (6-th result - 116,1 million) and followed by a tale Tim Burton sat down the very first "Spider-Man" (7 th - 114,8 million).

But "The Lord of the cash", " Avatar "from James Cameron, this list is only 29 th place with a modest financial result in 77 million. However, as history has shown, sometimes stability presents a much more impressive performance.

"Dark Knight" was launched in July a three-day weekend in 2008. The first picture is about the adventures of Iron Man came out in the same year, but a little earlier in the spring. The character for the audience was new and unknown for the bulk of the audience. Movie star Robert Downey Jr.. was just beginning its dizzying return to Hollywood (and then came "Tropic Thunder" and "Sherlock Holmes", finalized the actor in the superstar status). Yes, and the director Jon Favreau to "Iron Man" was nothing remarkable in his career (who remembers that "Zathura: A Space Adventure" - is also his offspring ").

And despite all of the above, the first weekend of "Iron Man" spent a very confident - $ 98 million (15-ranked), and eventually collected in his native rolled over 318 million.