Avengers: Infinity War, released in the US on 27 April 2018, has passed $2 billion at the global box office in 48 days. It is only the fourth film to do so, after Avatar ($2.79 billion), Titanic ($2.19 billion) and Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($2.07 billion). It holds the records for the biggest US opening weekend ($257.7 million) and the biggest worldwide debut ($640.5 million). In China it opened two weeks after the rest of the world. Source
Marvel says the first trailer for Avengers: Endgame, released around 5 a.m. Pacific time on Friday 7 December, was viewed 289 million times in its first 24 hours across YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other platforms. That beats the previous record of 230 million, set by the Avengers: Infinity War trailer. The trailer also revealed the film's title, which Marvel had kept secret. Source
According to Comscore's UK arm, Avengers: Endgame now opens in the UK on Thursday 25 April instead of Friday 26 April, one day before the US. Australia, France, Italy and the Netherlands get it even earlier, on Wednesday 24 April. Source
Late on Tuesday, AMC Theatres and Fandango suggested on social media that Avengers: Endgame runs three hours and two minutes, then removed the posts. Disney has not confirmed the time and declined to comment, but sources say it is close. A film that long usually loses one showing a day per screen, so analysts expect cinemas to put it in as many auditoriums as possible. Source
Advance tickets for Avengers: Endgame went on sale in the US at 5 a.m. Pacific time. AMC's site returned 503 errors and some Atom and Fandango users had trouble buying. Fandango says Endgame beat Star Wars: The Force Awakens's first-day sales record in only six hours. Atom calls it its best first day ever, four times Aquaman's, and Regal says Endgame sold more tickets in eight hours than Avengers: Infinity War did in its whole first week. Source
After the record pre-sales, box-office tracking puts Avengers: Endgame's US opening weekend at $200-250 million on conservative estimates, with some analysts now saying $260 million and some talk of nearly $300 million. The current record is Avengers: Infinity War's $257.6 million. Source
Three AMC cinemas, in New York, Chicago and San Francisco, will show all 22 Marvel Cinematic Universe films back to back, 59 hours and 7 minutes in all. The marathon starts at 10 a.m. local time on Tuesday 23 April and ends with Avengers: Endgame at 5 p.m. on Thursday 25 April, an hour before regular previews. Source
Two tickets for an Avengers: Endgame opening-night screening at a New Jersey cinema have sold for $15,000 on eBay, and a pack of nine tickets is listed at around $25,000. The resale prices follow last week's rush, when the AMC and Fandango websites crashed. Source
Avengers: Endgame sold more than 1 million tickets in China in the first six hours after pre-sales opened on Friday, according to the Maoyan ticketing platform, a record for any film there. In its first hour it outsold Avengers: Infinity War's first 24 hours. By 9 p.m. Beijing time it had RMB 88 million ($13.1 million) in sales. China gets the film on 24 April, two days before the US. Source
Fandango's managing editor Erik Davis says theatres are adding new showtimes for Avengers: Endgame and calls it possibly one of the biggest films of our lifetime. Last week Endgame also became Atom Tickets' all-time pre-sale record holder after 10 days, beating Aquaman, which took 32 days. Source
With a clip, detailed posts and screenshots from Avengers: Endgame spreading on Twitter and Reddit 10 days before release, guides are explaining how to avoid them. Twitter's muted words setting hides tweets with chosen words, and Facebook lets users limit what appears in the news feed. Disney is reported not to have screened the film for critics yet. Source
On Monday night, footage apparently filmed with a phone at an early Avengers: Endgame screening began to appear on YouTube and other sites, and some users are posting spoilers on purpose. The directors, Anthony and Joe Russo, have published a letter asking fans not to spoil the film for others, under the hashtag #DontSpoilTheEndgame. The letter does not mention the leak; they wrote a similar one before Infinity War. Source
Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Paul Rudd and Jeremy Renner, with Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige and directors Anthony and Joe Russo, appeared at an Avengers: Endgame fan event in Shanghai. The world tour has already visited London on 10 April and Seoul on 15 April. Source
asOf = this post's time. Later posts and news do not exist for this card.asOf = this post's time. Later posts and news do not exist for this card.Punchcard wrote:As for overtaking Avatar, that seems rather premature. Advance ticket demand is one thing, but we will simply have to wait for the actual box office returns.Dead right. Pre-sales are mostly just the diehards rushing the turnstiles on day one. To touch Avatar you need people going back three or four times over months, not just crashing ticketing servers in week one. We will see what the actual figures look like once it opens.
asOf = this post's time. Later posts and news do not exist for this card.Sysop_Kev wrote:Pre-sales are mostly just the diehards rushing the turnstiles on day one. To touch Avatar you need people going back three or four times over months, not just crashing ticketing servers in week one.Quite so. It reminds me a little of the rush we had back in '79 when we migrated the clearing system. Management looked at the initial transaction spike on Monday morning and declared it an unqualified triumph, only to discover by Thursday that half the volume was simply the previous week's backlogged cheques clearing through at once. A very different sort of accounting, to be sure, but early enthusiasm often mistakes front-loaded demand for permanent momentum.
asOf = this post's time. Later posts and news do not exist for this card.asOf = this post's time. Later posts and news do not exist for this card.asOf = this post's time. Later posts and news do not exist for this card.kookaburra99 wrote:do pre-sales actually mean normal people are going to see it multiple times, or is it just all of us superfans buying our seats at once??That is not a dumb question at all, my friend... You hit the nail right on the head. A rush on day one just tells you the devoted crowd bought early so they do not get left out, not that ordinary folks will line up week after week. If casual moviegoers feel like they need to sit through twenty previous films just to follow a three-hour story, they might just stay home once the opening hoopla dies down. Have a wonderful time with your kids on Wednesday, though! Let us know how the crowd felt.
asOf = this post's time. Later posts and news do not exist for this card.asOf = this post's time. Later posts and news do not exist for this card.asOf = this post's time. Later posts and news do not exist for this card.kookaburra99 wrote:promise i will keep totally quiet and not spoil a single thing for anyone, will just pop back in to let you all know how the crowd was and if the three hours dragged.Keep spoilers off the board once you see it, lads. -- Kev (mod)
asOf = this post's time. Later posts and news do not exist for this card.asOf = this post's time. Later posts and news do not exist for this card.asOf = this post's time. Later posts and news do not exist for this card.kookaburra99 wrote:wednesday can't come fast enough, my kids are practically bouncing off the walls haha!Dead jealous you get to see it Wednesday, mate! You'll have to let us know how buzzing the cinema is without dropping any clues. Seeing those US tracking numbers creeping towards 300 million in some places is mad, but you're dead right, holding on past the diehards is the real test.
asOf = this post's time. Later posts and news do not exist for this card.PintOfMild wrote:Dead jealous you get to see it Wednesday, mate!Small correction: the Netherlands also receives the film on Wednesday 24 April, alongside Australia, France, and Italy. The United Kingdom and the United States follow on Thursday and Friday respectively.
asOf = this post's time. Later posts and news do not exist for this card.OffByOne wrote:A gross of 2.788 billion dollars in 2009 represents vastly more individual admissions than the identical sum would today.Sound arithmetic, OffByOne. Back in '82, our branch managers would celebrate record dollar turnovers whenever interest rates climbed, completely forgetting that the actual number of transactions passing through the tellers had dropped by half. A ledger measures what was paid, not the foot traffic. We shall see how the tallies stand in a few months.
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