“It looks like the demand is going to outstrip the supply but theaters are doing their best to keep up with that,” said Dergarabedian. With a running time of three hours and one minute, theaters won’t be able to fit as many screenings in per day as they’d like to. Ultimately, the only thing standing in the way of “Endgame” is “Endgame,” itself. And no other wide release is daring to open against “Endgame.” Ironically, though, the weekend won’t be much an improvement over the same time frame last year since that’s when “Infinity War” opened. “Endgame” will give a much-needed jolt to the box office, which is running about 16 percent behind the pace of 2018. Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox brings Marvel’s X-Men and Deadpool under the same roof. “Endgame” concludes not just the arc of the “Avengers” movies but signals the completion of the 22-movie Marvel Cinematic Universe, as mapped out by Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige.įeige has been tight-lipped about what the next phase will be, though he has new reinforcements. Helping the cause is that reviews, at 97 percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, have been among the best for any Marvel movie. “Endgame” is opening worldwide more or less simultaneously everywhere except Russia.Įstimates range from $260 million to $300 million domestically, and between $800 million and $1 billion globally. The worldwide haul is certain to be obliterated that because “Infinity War” didn’t debut in China until two weeks later. The current opening weekend record is held by the last “Avengers” movie - the 2018 preamble to “Endgame,” ″Infinity War.” It debuted with $257.7 million domestically and $640.5 million worldwide.īoth of those records are likely toast. “This is like the 100-year-flood of movies.” Ragnarok, next year’s Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War and Ant-Man and the. “This is a seismic box-office event,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore. &0183 &32 The two best recent movies in Fox’s X-Verse. So let me do the plan and that way it might be really good.' Peter Quill (Avengers: Infinity War) Click To Tweet 'The hardest choices require the strongest wills. Only “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” had a larger single day gross, and its one-day $119.1 million haul came from both U.S. Our Favorite Quotes: 'Let's talk about this plan of yours. That’s already the most lucrative single day ever in Chinese theaters. Disney said Wednesday that “Avengers: Endgame” grossed about $107.2 million in China on Wednesday, where it first opened. Regardless, records will fall - and they have already started to. Can it clear $300 million domestically? Is a $1 billion worldwide weekend possible? Will “Avengers: Endgame” eventually rival the $2.8 billion total gross of “Avatar” in 2009? Just how massive the ticket sales will be by the end of Sunday has been one of the one of the industry’s favorite guessing games. “It looks like we’ve gotten Thanos’ snap,” AMC said at the time.