Avengers Infinity War Box Office: Marvel Film Makes $641 Million Worldwide; 10 Important Records It Has Added to its Kitty
It remains to be seen if Avengers Infinity War will manage to cross one billion worldwide in the first-week run.
Avengers: Infinity War has managed to do the unthinkable! When Marvel announced that Infinity War will feature nearly every superhero they have brought in Marvel Cinematic Universe in one movie, no one expected them to make it this good. Especially since Joss Whedon left the reins to direct the movie, after handling The Avengers and its sequel, Age of Ultron. But thanks to their incredible work in the two Captain America movies, The Winter Soldier and Civil War, the Russo brothers proved to be much more efficient replacements for Whedon. And in the process, they pulled off the near-impossible in delivering a superhero movie that is high on spectacle, emotions, boasts of a fantastic villain in Thanos and delivers a head-smacking climax that will leave us excited for the next instalment due to arrive in 2019.
Thanks to the Marvel's audience-friendly branding and the pull of the Avengers, the movie has taken a fantastic start with $641 million worldwide collections on its opening weekend itself. This is easily the best debut weekend for any movie in the history of cinema. Even in India, it has done some wonderful business making Rs 94 crore in the opening weekend. So in its money-minting blitz, here
#1 Highest Grossing Opening Weekend for a Hollywood film ever in India with Rs 94 crore
#2 Second Highest grossing opening weekend of 2018 after Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Padmaavat.
#3 Highest Opening Day weekend collections (Thursday previews included) in the USA for any movie ever (approx. $259 million; beating Star Wars: The Force Awakens' $249 million opening weekend figures)
#4 Second highest opening weekend overseas with $383 Million collections. The top record is held by Vin Diesel's The Fate of the Furious with #443 million (do note The Fate of the Furious had released in China in its opening weekend, while Avengers: Infinity War is yet to release in the country)
#5 Biggest Opening weekend worldwide for any movie ever with $641 million collections total.
#6 Biggest Opening weekend for a superhero movie
#7 Best Debut weekend for any movie releasing in 2018.
#8 Highest ever collections in the USA on Saturday and Sunday with $83m and $61 million respectively
#9 Also beats The Avengers' $207 million for the MCU movie with the best box office debut.
#10 About to obliterate Justice League's lifetime worldwide collections of $659 million
(above figures provided by BoxOfficeMojo.com, Forbes and Bollywood Hungama)
It remains to be seen if Avengers Infinity War will manage to cross one billion worldwide in the first-week run. Luckily for the movie, it will release in Russia on May 4 and in China on May 11. China and Russia are two biggest international markets for cinema. If the movie finds the same favour in these two markets as the rest of the world, expect Infinity War to not only cross the $1 billion mark smoothly but also threaten Avatar's position in being highest grossing movie ever!
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