Guinness World Records 2018

HIGHEST-GROSSING SUPERHERO MOVIE

The most successful superhero movie at the international

box office is Marvel’s

The Avengers (USA, 2012), which took

$1,519,479,547 (£943,278,000) in its 22 weeks on general

release between 4

May and 4^ Oct 2012. The film, directed

by Joss Whedon (USA), accounted for 52% of

all domestic

box-office takings in the USA for the month of May.

HIGHEST-GROSSING

R-RATED MOVIE

No other R-rated movie has earned more

at the worldwide box office than Marvel’s

risqué superhero film

Deadpool (USA, 2016),

starring Ryan Reynolds. By 8

Dec 2016, it

had grossed $783,770,709 (£553,444,000),

according to The-Numbers.com.

HIGHEST-GROSSING ANIMATED

SUPERHERO MOVIE

Big Hero 6 (2014) earned a huge $652,127,828

(£424,129,000) at the global box office,

topping Pixar’s 2004 movie

The Incredibles

($614,726,752; £328,748,000). The film sees boy

genius Hiro transform himself, health-care robot

Baymax and a gang of nerdy kids into high-tech

superheroes to

save their home city of San Fransokyo.

In 2008, a

British teenager

changed his name to

“Captain Fantastic Faster

Than Superman Spiderman

Batman Wolverine Hulk

And The Flash

Combined”!

grossing $757,890,267
(£471,460,000) according
to The-Numbers.com,
as of 4 Nov 2016.

Most-watched
superhero movie
trailer
The online trailer for
Marvel’s Avengers: Age
of Ultron (USA) film –
which was released at
cinemas in Apr/May 2015

• had 79,919,212 views
  as of 15 Dec 2016.

Highest death toll in
a superhero movie
There were a total of
83,871 on-screen fatalities
in Marvel’s Guardians
of the Galaxy
(USA, 2014).
The mammoth
death toll is boosted
by the inclusion of the
entire Nova Corps on
the casualty list.
Man of Steel (USA/CAN/
UK, 2013) sees massive
loss of life in Metropolis
and Smallville, but also the
death of every living thing
on the planet Krypton (its
destruction also features in
Superman [USA/UK, 1978]).
If Krypton is comparable
to Earth in terms of variety
and abundance of life, then

the individual death toll

of that film is incalculable

• but could be equivalent
  to 1 trillion species.

Highest box-office film

gross for a composer

The 94 movies scored

by Hans Zimmer

(DEU) – including superhero

spectaculars such as

Batman v Superman: Dawn

of Justice (USA, 2016),

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

(USA, 2014) and The

Dark Knight Rises (USA/

UK, 2012) – had topped

$26.3 bn (£21.1 bn) at

the global box office as

of 1 Mar 2017, according

to The-Numbers.com.

Longest score

for a superhero film

Including the 28-min

16 - sec piece “Man of Steel:

Hans’ Original Sketchbook”,

the score for the film

Man of Steel (USA, 2013),

composed by Hans Zimmer,

enjoys an overall running

time of 118 min.

In the list

of the 100

most successful

movies, 17% feature

superheroes.

The Avengers sits at

No.5 in the list, as

of Nov^ 2016.