Can Avengers: Endgame take the #1 spot beating Avatar? ...It just did !!!!

[Mandalore76]

the-pi-guy said:

Mandalore76 said:

Easily? 

A lot of people were expecting over 3 billion for a total run. 

But Endgame didn't have anything for legs.  

Mandalore76 said:

Avatar was in theaters for 46 weekends through 2 releases.  Endgame has only been out for 12 weekends and is playing in 700 less theaters than Avatar was at this point in its run.  The global box office record was always going to be a tough nut to crack, but it has already passed Avatar's initial run without counting the "Avatar: Special Edition" which released 9 months after Avatar.

Most of those weeks though, Avatar made less than 2 million.  In the US, Avatar made almost 94% of it's total + special edition total in 11 weeks.  

I don't think those were tempered expectations though.  It's very difficult to have "legs" in a crowded release schedule. The Worldwide and Domestic box office records are both held by "Christmas release" films.  It's much easier to have better weekend to weekend holds during the barren release schedules of January-February than it is for a movie that releases at the end of April. 

Avatar's only competition was Alvin and the Chipmunks:  The Squeakquel (12/23/09 - $443m lifetime worldwide), Sherlock Holmes (12/25/09 - $524m lifetime worldwide), and Shutter Island (2/19/10 - $294m worldwide) until Alice in Wonderland came out in March.

And The Force Awakens only competition came from The Revenant (12/25/15 - $532m worldwide), Daddy's Home (12/25/15 - $242m worldwide), and Kung Fu Panda 3 (1/29/16 - $521m worldwide) until Deadpool came out mid February. 

Compare this to Endgame which has faced the releases of Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (5/10/19 - $429m worldwide), John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum (5/17/19 - $316m worldwide), Aladdin (5/24/19 - $961m worldwide), Godzilla: King of the Monsters (5/31/19 - $383m worldwide), Toy Story 4 (6/21/19 - $773m worldwide), and Spider-Man: Far From Home (7/2/19 - $847m worldwide).