Avengers: Endgame Tracking to Smash Opening Weekend Box Office Record
Hulk smash? Maybe. Avengers: Endgame smash? Almost certainly.
It will not surprise you to learn that Disney currently holds nine of the biggest US box office opening weekends of all time. Currently, Star Wars: The Last Jedi with $220 million.
However, Marvel’s forthcoming event film Avengers: Endgame is currently tracking to blast its way to number one when it opens on April 26 with a whopping $282 million, which will likely lead to another $2 billion+ hit for Disney worldwide.
“Infinity War left audiences with a cinematic cliffhanger,” Jeff Bock at Researcher Exhibitor Relations told Bloomberg about the Endgame prediction. “The only thing that could really affect the opening weekend would be a running time that exceeded three hours, which has yet to be confirmed by Disney.”
Mm. About that, Jeff? It Endgame could be 100 hours in length and they’d still buy a ticket – it’s that theaters won’t be able to fit in as many screenings per day when the film opens.
In the meantime, Captain Marvel is set to open next week – the first hit of Marvel’s one-two early-2019 box office punches. Pilot-turned-Kree-warrior Carol Danvers’ big screen solo outing is tracking for a $118-$160 million opening weekend box office at present, with full critic reviews set to be published in the coming days.
After Endgame, the studio’s Phase 4 plans until later this year.
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Kirsten Howard has paid their dues. Yes sir, the check is in the mail.