‘Avengers: Endgame’ Tramples the Competition with a $1.2 Billion Opening Weekend
“Avengers: Endgame” a massive ending for many storylines in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was always expected to be huge! However, no one really knew just how popular. The film, which was released last Thursday to much fanfare raked in an unbelievable $1.2 billion worldwide in its opening weekend. That’s $356 domestic and $866 million overseas!
This means Endgame’s release is one for the history books as it became the first film to surpass $1.2 billion globally over an opening weekend. To put that in perspective it reached $1 billion in box office revenue in just five days. The previous record-holder ‘Infinity War’ ran for 11 days before it hit the same figure.
According to a recent post in Variety, Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn had this to say about the film’s impressive opening weekend, “Though ‘Endgame” is far from an end for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, these first 22 films constitute a sprawling achievement and this weekend’s monumental success is a testament to the world they’ve envisioned, the talent involved and their collective passion, matched by the irrepressible enthusiasm of fans around the world.”
Marvel films now hold the title of having the two biggest film launches worldwide ever. “Avengers: Endgame” and “Avengers: Infinity War.” All 22 films in the franchise have collectively made $19.9 billion at the box office and 8 went on to cross over $1 billion at the box office including “Avengers: Infinity War,” “Black Panther,” “The Avengers,” “Captain America: Civil War,” “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” and “Iron Man 3.”
It is yet to be seen whether Marvel will quash Avatar’s record of being the highest grossing film of all time having earned over $2.7 billion worldwide but it’s definitely something we’ll be monitoring closely!
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