With the final numbers to come out later today, the estimates are in and Avengers: Endgame has taken the top spot at the box office. With $350 million last weekend, this weekend saw it make another $145.8 million this weekend. But let’s also note that its weekday numbers have it bringing in almost $120 million total across the four days, which is pretty fantastic. The film is now just under $620 million domestic and it’s looking more and more like it may have the potential to break the $900 million mark by the time is all said and done – but breaking the record of $936 million of The Force Awakens remains in doubt.
The film did another $282 million this weekend and with all of the weekday showings and minor expansions that were left, it’s at $1.5 billion overseas for a worldwide total of $2.1 billion in ten days. This puts it firmly in the second position slot for the largest worldwide release of all time and has just $600 million to go to break Avatar‘s record. It took Avatar forty-seven days to break the $2 billion mark but that film had some real legs with the way it drew people into the early days of how 3D could be done right.
Once past that, the new film The Intruder took the second place spot at $11 million while Long Shot landed at $10 million. Ugly Dolls came in at $8.5 million and it’s easy to imagine across all of these that if you weren’t seeing Endgame, you were avoiding the theater and its crowds, which impacted the new releases.
The fifth place slot is where Captain Marvel fell to after hitting a boost last weekend at second place. It brought in another $4.2 million to bring it to $420 million. This places it fifth highest female action heroine lead film and the eighth position slot for comic book adaptation.
This coming week will see more attempts to break the Endgame dominance or at least free up some oxygen for other works. Warner Bros. goes big with Detective Pikachu in 4,100 screens while STX Entertainment goes for Poms in 2,700 screens. United Artists has The Hustle sliding into 2,750 screens while Fox Searchlight looks for audiences in 1,300 screens. Not looking at wide releases are All is True from Sony Classics, Biggest Little Farm from Neon, Charlie Says from IFC, My Son from Cohen Media Group, The Professor and the Madman from Vertical, and FIP with 175 screens for Student of the Year 2.
