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The Avengers(2012)

Released

2012 · FILM

The Avengers

A vengeful Loki, armed with the Tesseract and a mysterious alien army, descends on Earth, forcing S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury to assemble a ragtag team of heroes for a high-stakes battle against the forces of Asgard and the unknown.

“Some assembly required.”

Directed by

Joss Whedon, Julian Brain

Written by

Joss Whedon, Zak Penn

Rated

MPA · PG-13

Runtime

143 min

ActionSci-Fi

Synopsis

When an unforeseen adversary appears and endangers worldwide safety and security, Nick Fury, the director of the international peacekeeping organization S.H.I.E.L.D., must assemble a team to avert disaster. A global recruitment effort then commences.

Credits

Actors

Editor

Production Designer

James Chinlund

Director of Photography

Seamus Mcgarvey

Writers

Directors

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 580+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Jeffrey FordShot by Seamus McgarveyScored by Alan SilvestriDesigned by James ChinlundSound by Christopher BoyesCostumes by Alexandra Byrne

Box Office

2012 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.52B

Budget$220.0M

Worldwide gross$1.52B

break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $623.4M — 41% of worldwide · International: $895.5M (59%)

Opening weekend: $207.4M — 33% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $270.0M — 43% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 4,349 theaters

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Also known as

Marvel's The Avengersde
Avengers Assembleen
Marvel Avengers Assembleen
Avengersfr
(English)The Avengers

Release dates around the world5 countries · show

United StatesApr 11, 2012
AustraliaApr 25, 2012
BelgiumApr 25, 2012
FranceApr 25, 2012
ItalyApr 25, 2012

Companies

ProductionMarvel Studios, Paramount Pictures

DistributionWalt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, B&H Film Distribution, Cineforum

Special effectsCantina Creative, Digital Domain, Evil Eye Pictures, Fuel VFX, Hydraulx

Other companies.1 Studio, 20th Century Fox Studios, 20th Century-Fox Studios, Hollywood, 5th Kind, Abbey Road Studios

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