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Avengers: Endgame Overtakes Avatar as Highest-Grossing Film
Confirmed
In Short: Disney's Avengers: Endgame has surpassed Avatar to become the highest-grossing film of all time, earning $2.925 billion.
The film's success is attributed to its recent re-release, which featured new scenes and footage, and a strong international performance.
Marvel Studios announced its next 10 superhero movies at Comic Con in San Diego, with seven set for release in 2021 alone.
Avengers: Endgame, directed by the Russo brothers, has been a critical and commercial success, earning a 'Certified Fresh' 90% critics' score and a 'Verified Hot' 98% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Disney boss Alan Horn praised fans for taking the film to 'historic heights', while actor Chris Hemsworth congratulated fans on Instagram.
The re-release of Avengers: Endgame is timed between two major 2026 Marvel titles: Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Avengers: Doomsday.
Endgame's re-release strategy mirrors Avatar's, which has earned over $170 million from re-releases since 2009.
In China, Avatar's re-release over the weekend helped it reclaim the top spot, but Endgame's strong international performance has now surpassed it.
Endgame's success is part of Marvel's broader strategy to maintain its dominance in the superhero film market, with plans for a bumper crop of 10 new superhero movies.
Endgame's re-release has drawn widespread acclaim, with reviews describing it as 'glorious', 'irresistible', and 'intensely satisfying'.
What this adds
Endgame's re-release strategy is part of a larger plan to maintain Marvel's dominance in the superhero film market.
Endgame's success is a testament to the enduring popularity of the MCU, which has become a cultural phenomenon with a dedicated fanbase.
Background
Avengers: Endgame Encore, featuring new scenes and footage, returned to theaters on September 25, 2023, ahead of the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday.
Avengers: Endgame Encore, featuring new scenes and footage, and A24's Primetime are set to open with strong previews this weekend.
Avengers: Endgame is a 2019 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the direct sequel to Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and the 22nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
Avatar is a concept within Hinduism that in Sanskrit literally means 'descent'. The concept, with a different name, can also be found within Buddhism and Yazidism.
What's confirmed
- The film's success is attributed to its recent re-release, which featured new scenes and footage, and a strong international performance.
- Marvel Studios announced its next 10 superhero movies at Comic Con in San Diego, with seven set for release in 2021 alone.
- Avengers: Endgame, directed by the Russo brothers, has been a critical and commercial success, earning a 'Certified Fresh' 90% critics' score and a 'Verified Hot' 98% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
- Disney boss Alan Horn praised fans for taking the film to 'historic heights', while actor Chris Hemsworth congratulated fans on Instagram.
- The re-release of Avengers: Endgame is timed between two major 2026 Marvel titles: Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Avengers: Doomsday.
- Endgame's re-release strategy mirrors Avatar's, which has earned over $170 million from re-releases since 2009.
- In China, Avatar's re-release over the weekend helped it reclaim the top spot, but Endgame's strong international performance has now surpassed it.
- Endgame's success is part of Marvel's broader strategy to maintain its dominance in the superhero film market, with plans for a bumper crop of 10 new superhero movies.
- Endgame's re-release has drawn widespread acclaim, with reviews describing it as 'glorious', 'irresistible', and 'intensely satisfying'.
What's still developing
- Most of the storylines in the Marvel movies since then have had objects called Infinity Stones playing a significant role.
- Avatar's 10-year reign as the world's highest-grossing film has ended.
- On Sunday, Marvel's Avengers: Endgame crossed $2.7902bn (£2.23bn) at the box office, pushing it over the $2.7897bn earned by James Cameron's sci-fi epic.
- Star Wars; The Force Awakens is still the country's top-earning movie, after taking £123.2m at the box office in 2015.
- It is followed by two Bond movies, Skyfall and Spectre, and Avatar, which is £3m ahead of Endgame's current tally of £91m.
- The Force Awakens is also the box office champion in North America, meaning Endgame's record-breaking haul was down to a strong international showing.
- Reviews when it was released spawned descriptions such as "glorious", "irresistible", "intensely satisfying" and "masterful".
- "But for right now today in Hall H, thanks to you, Avengers: Endgame is the biggest film of all time."
- "Huge congratulations to the Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Studios teams, and thank you to the fans around the world who lifted Avengers: Endgame to these historic heights."
- First launched on April 26, 2019, Endgame served as the sequel to Avengers: Infinity War and marked the 22nd entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- It became a global phenomenon, amassing close to $2.8 billion and briefly holding the title of the world’s highest-grossing film, until Avatar reclaimed the crown through its own series of re-releases.
- Currently, Endgame trails Avatar by roughly $126 million on the all-time global box office chart.
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- WarpBeat — background on Avengers: Endgame Encore and Primetime Eye Strong Previews This Weekend link
- Wikipedia — background on Avengers: Endgame link
- Wikipedia — background on Avatar link