And when it comes to ratings, they score high too. Avengers: Endgame earned a 94% Rotten Tomatoes score, and the lowest-rated film of the series, Avengers: Age of Ultron, still managed to get a 75% rating. Avengers: Endgame, which was the final film of the series, made nearly $750 million more than the second-highest box office performer, Avengers: Infinity War. While Avengers: Endgame may have ended on a down note, it’s the favorite film of the Avengers franchise for most critics, as well as the highest-grossing movie of all time, beating out Avatar, Titanic, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Before Aquaman, The Dark Knight was DC’s moneymaker, bringing in almost one billion dollars ($981,860,046) domestically, which is nearly one-third of the total profits brought in from DC’s top 10. DC’s Joker holds the number one spot for ROI at a whopping 1,949%, showing that a $55 million budget might be better than a $200 million budget in some instances. Joker didn’t require a ton of CGI or fancy production, and it’s a somewhat minimalist film in contrast to the grand productions of the Avengers series. Curious to find out how DC’s latest film Harley Quin: Birds of Prey did? Harley had an $84,500,000 budget and brought in $201,858,461 worldwide at the box office. With a return on investment of 240%, or $2.40 for every dollar invested in production, the film didn’t make Warner Bros. any big bucks, but it didn’t lose the studio money, either. And since the Wakandan warrior joined up with the Avengers, too, chances are Marvel was happy with their investment. (Black Panther took in $1,346,913,161 compared to Avengers: Endgame’s $2,797,800,564). After that, there’s a tie for the second-highest Rotten Tomatoes score between Avengers: Endgame (Marvel), The Dark Knight (DC), and Iron Man (Marvel), which all scored 94. Marvel beats DC . . . so far. Both studios will produce more films over the years, so let us know what you’re excited about, what you’d like to see more of, or what you would like to see Thanos snap out of existence.
