{"id":4372,"date":"2014-09-09T16:41:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T16:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=4372"},"modified":"2023-01-24T08:57:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:57:48","slug":"guardians-galaxy-surpasses-iron-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/guardians-galaxy-surpasses-iron-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians of the Galaxy Surpasses Iron Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Guardians of the Galaxy<\/strong> has done it again! After only a month in theaters, Guardians has surpassed Iron Man in the global box office, making it Marvel&#8217;s biggest-earning franchise-starter yet! Even though Guardians of the Galaxy has yet to open in some large markets, it has earned $586 million worldwide, surpassing Iron Man&#8217;s $585.1 million total.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the worldwide success of Guardians of the Galaxy, director James Gunn had this to say:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/feature-hurleyfx.jpg\" rel=\"prettyphoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4046\" style=\"margin: 15px 15px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/feature-hurleyfx.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon Con HurleyFX\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/feature-hurleyfx.jpg 640w, https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/feature-hurleyfx-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/feature-hurleyfx-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><em>&#8220;Guardians of the Galaxy box office just passed up Iron Man, making us the biggest Marvel franchise-starter yet. And we still haven&#8217;t opened in Japan, China, or Italy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If I had a penny for every time someone said making a Marvel movie with a talking raccoon was dumb and that Guardians was going to bomb, I&#8217;d probably have just about the amount of money Guardians has made so far. So I&#8217;m glad I spent that time making a film instead of counting people and their opinions, because we&#8217;re still going strong. Also, making the movie was a little more productive, and people seem to enjoy it. Not to mention that I would have had a difficult time collecting all those pennies, and the bank would have been pissed off at me when I tried to exchange them for large bills.<\/p>\n<p>But, once more, YOU ALL are the ones who bought the tickets. We provided the material, but you took it into your hearts and made it a hit. So THANK YOU, and love to you all (even those of you from whom I&#8217;d otherwise be collecting pennies).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Guardians of the Galaxy is now the top-grossing Marvel Studios movie without Iron Man in it, placing it fifth on the all-time list, at the domestic box office.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2LIQ2-PZBC8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardians of the Galaxy has done it again! After only a month in theaters, Guardians has surpassed Iron Man in the global box office, making it Marvel&#8217;s biggest-earning franchise-starter yet! Even though Guardians of the Galaxy has yet to open in some large markets, it has earned $586 million worldwide, surpassing Iron Man&#8217;s $585.1 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,388],"tags":[3145,112,249,161,253,247],"yst_prominent_words":[6310,8244,8242,10793,6703,7632,7586,10791,10790,6997,6073,5885,10792,6636,5825,10794],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68943,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions\/68943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}