Shadow1980 said: Looking back at Avatar's global box office figures, it appears that it made $2.74B from the original theatrical run, with the Special Edition release adding another $48M. So, if you exclude the SE re-release of Avatar, Endgame has already surpassed it. Of course, while Avatar benefited from a re-release, Endgame benefits from a decade's worth of ticket price inflation. In inflation-adjusted terms, Endgame will end up far short of Avatar. It might have had the huge opening, but its legs weren't nearly as strong as Avatar's, which were turbo-charged. |
A lot of people are forgiving the drop off because of the "must see it before I get spoiled" approach that presumably frontloaded the movie so much. Endgame was the final movie of an 11 year movie chain, with the next Spider-Man movie serving as the epilogue. TLJ is a Star Wars movie, which means that it opens to too much hype, unrealistic expectations, and a segment of vocal cannibalistic fans that I think now hate the franchise more than they ever loved it just because its the cool thing to do.