Avengers: Endgame Crosses $2 Billion to Become the 2nd Highest Grossing Film Worldwide of All Time

Avengers: Endgame

Its taken just eleven days for Avengers: Endgame to become the second highest grossing worldwide release of all-time. The film has earned $2.189 billion total on its march to topple Avatar‘s $2.788 billion from the top spot. Avatar took 47 days to reach $2 billion.

The filmed earned an estimated $145.8 million over the weekend which is just shy of $149.2 million record setting second weekend of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It is possible this will change once final numbers are released.

The film has earned $619.7 million domestically making it the top grossing film of the year and it currently ranks #9 for all time lifetime domestic gross.

Internationally, the film added $282 million to bring that total to $1.569 billion, 71.7% of its earnings.

New films filmed the top five as The Intruder debuted in second with an estimated $11 million off of an $8 million budget.

In third place was another new film, Long Shot, which delivered an estimated $10 million. That film also opened in 22 markets where it earned an estimated $3.3 million.

Uglydolls struggled coming in fourth place with an estimated $8.5 million and with a budget between $45-$53 million, the film will have to fight to turn a profit.

Rounding out the top five was Captain Marvel which earned an estimated $4.2 million pushing its domestic total $420.8 million and it also earned an estimated $1.2 million internationally to drive that number to $699.3 million and $1.120 billion total.

Other comic related films at the box office…

Shazam! came in at #8, dropping from last week’s #5, earning an estimated $2.5 million to bring its domestic total to $135.2 million.

Alita: Battle Angel improved from last week’s #35 to come in at #34 earning an estimated $21,000 to bring its domestic total to $85.7 million.

We’ll be back in an hour for a deeper dive into this year’s and last year’s comic film adaptations.


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