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Avengers: Endgame Encore and Primetime Eye Strong Previews This Weekend
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In Short: Avengers: Endgame Encore, featuring new scenes and footage, and A24's Primetime are set to open with strong previews this weekend.
Avengers: Endgame Encore, a re-release of the 2019 film, includes three minutes of never-before-seen footage that connects directly to the events of Avengers: Doomsday, according to multiple industry insiders.
The new scenes in Avengers: Endgame Encore will feature Doctor Doom recruiting the Hulk, as revealed by Alex Perez and James Mack.
Avengers: Endgame Encore is tracking to earn between $25 million and $30 million in its opening weekend domestically, according to Variety.
The film's preview screenings on Thursday are expected to generate around $4 million, with strong word-of-mouth described as extremely positive.
A24's Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen from 'To Catch a Predator,' is also set to open this weekend with previews.
Primetime earned $2.7 million in Thursday previews, according to IndieWire, putting it ahead of recent Robert Pattinson films.
The weekend is expected to see strong competition among Avengers: Endgame Encore, Primetime, Resident Evil, and Heart of the Beast, with each film potentially earning over $20 million.
Avengers: Endgame Encore is booked in around 3,000 theaters, boosted by Disney/Marvel Studios' new certification on 1,300 premium large format screens and 390 Imax hubs.
The overseas outlook for Avengers: Endgame Encore is $25 million, with the film expected to perform well in France, Germany, Austria, Taiwan, Iceland, India, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
What this adds
The new scenes in Avengers: Endgame Encore are designed to build anticipation for Avengers: Doomsday, particularly the arrival of Robert Downey Jr.'s Victor von Doom.
Avengers: Endgame Encore's strong performance is attributed to its designation as a 'critical companion story' to Avengers: Doomsday, according to Joe Russo.
What's confirmed
- According to multiple industry insiders—such as X0XLEAK, ProjectHurts, and Blue Minutes —one of the new scenes in Avengers Endgame: Encore will feature Doctor Doom recruiting the Hulk just ahead of the events of Avengers: Doomsday.
- Back on Apr. 15, 2026, renowned scooper Alex Perez revealed that Marvel planned to bring back multiple characters (including Wanda Maximoff) as Doom's followers in Avengers: Doomsday.
- Incidentally, insider James Mack revealed all the way back in January 2026 that Avengers: Doomsda y would feature a group of several "Dooms," and that one of them looks like the Hulk.
- Warning : This post contains potential spoilers for Avengers Endgame: Encore Warning : This post contains potential spoilers for Avengers Endgame: Encore After the release of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, all eyes immediately switched to the next Marvel Cinematic Universe film: Avengers: Doomsday.
- Avengers Endgame: Encore will be a re-release of the original 2019 ensemble film and is set to hit theaters on Sep.
- Directors Joe and Anthony Russo even deemed it a "must-watch" before Doomsday arrives, stating that "there's a natural progression from Endgame into Doomsday, which is also inclusive of all the other stories that have been playing out." Before the Multiverse Saga begins its final chapter, we'll be able to re-experience the end of the Infinity Saga one more time.
- Avengers Endgame: Encore won't just retell the tale that played out seven years ago, but it will feature three minutes of never-before-seen footage that will connect directly to the events of Avengers: Doomsday.
- They watch two Earths start to collide in an incursion, which is what happens when two universes smash into each other.
- That confirms what filmmaker Robert Meyer Burnett said days ago, that Hulk and Doom share a new scene in Encore.
- All four new scenes in Avengers: Endgame Encore have now been detailed, via Variety, as the re-release arrives in theaters.
- The A24 release earned $2.7 million in Thursday previews.
What's still developing
- But there are curveballs: It’s the year of Pattinson in The Drama and beggers getting out of here memes in The Odyssey, and though A24 is eyeing $12M-$16M for his latest movie Primetime about To Catch a Predator ‘s Chris Hansen and his case gone wrong, the $15M net production has a shot at a $20M opening in North America at 2,814 theaters.
- We’re hearing that previews tonight for the first feature narrative title from documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim are chasing Avengers: Endgame: Encore ‘s $3M+ previews with a figure between $2M-$3M.
- Previews for the R-rated Primetime began at 4PM today and Rotten Tomatoes reviews and critics are great at 86% certified fresh and 85%.
- Previews began today for the PG-13 David Ayer directed movie at 2PM and we hear from sources they’re around $1.8M (that includes Monday Mystery screenings).
- Previews today stateside began at 2PM and are estimated between $800K-$1M, we hear.
- Those previews for Primetime are ahead of Pattinson pics The Drama ($1.7M, $14.3M opening), and possibly Mickey 17 ($2.5M, $19M opening), in addition to the Gen-Z summer horror surprise Obsession ($2.6M, $17.1M opening).
- Meanwhile, Avengers: Endgame: Encore, boosted by four extra minutes of the Russo Brothers’ upcoming Avengers: Doomsday, has preview cash that could possibly surpass that of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith ‘s re-release which was $3.4M (that turned into a $25.4M opening).
- We heard presales for Encore were ahead of Revenge of the Sith ‘s re-release.
- The asterisk here is that sometimes these re-releases could be front-loaded, so we’ll see how Encore plays out.
- The scene shows Doctor Doom crafting his famous metal mask by hammering it into shape on an anvil, and the sound in the scene matches the metallic hammering heard in the Endgame credits.
- Marvel Studios has provided fans with yet another reason to go back and watch Avengers: Endgame.
- These new scenes address some of the major questions left unanswered in the movie and, at the same time, set up various plotlines for Avengers: Doomsday.