Welcome to another periodic installment of "box office catch-up," where I look at some of the older releases further down the charts and see how they have held up. As the title states, Walt Disney's Guardians of the Galaxy is now the third-biggest Marvel movie ever. It has earned $69 million since opening in China on October 10th and has thus raised its worldwide cume to $732.6 million, passing Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($714m) and now behind only Iron Man 3 ($1.21 billion) and The Avengers ($1.5b) in the ten-film Marvel Studios library. At this rate, it is a week or so away from passing X-Men: Days of Future Past ($746m) and Angelina Jolie's Maleficent ($757.2m) to become the year’s second-biggest global blockbuster behind Transformers: Age of Extinction ($1.08b).At this rate, the Marvel ensemble space fantasy could end up over $800m, although caution should be noted as X-Men: Days of Future Past and Captain America: The Winter Soldier ended their run in China with $115m/$116m respectively so a similar performance would give Guardians of the Galaxy a $780m worldwide cume, which is obviously nothing to sneeze at. Oh, and if I neglected to mention this a couple weeks ago, it passed The Sixth Sense ($672m back in 1999) to become the biggest-grossing film ever released in August. Your move, Goosebumps!
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