Nightly News | May 07, 2012
‘Avengers’ smashes box office record
The Marvel Comics adaptation has taken in more than $207 million in its opening weekend in the U.S. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.
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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: And we now know what a lot of you did this weekend. You went to see " The Avengers ." We know this because it set a big new record for opening weekend box office. Brought in $207 million, smashing the old record held by " Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ." Because it already opened overseas, this movie has already made over a half billion dollars without breaking a sweat, and over half of the folks who saw it this weekend in the US paid extra to see it in 3-D.