AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR On Track To Top STAR WARS' Opening Weekend With $250M Domestic, $630M Worldwide
Despite conservative estimations in the $240M range from Walt Disney Studios, it appears as though Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War will indeed take the domestic opening weekend record from Star Wars.
Thanos dropped a moon on the Avengers and now, if all goes according to plan, Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War is about to drop a moon on every film in existence with the biggest domestic and worldwide debuts of all-time.
While Walt Disney Studios has been pretty conservative with their projections, suggesting an opening in the $230 million to $240 million range, the most recent numbers, following the film's record-breaking $82 million Saturday, are telling a much different story. They're now saying that the Russo Brothers-directed blockbuster will almost definitely reach $250 million by the end of business today, making it the biggest domestic debut of all-time.
Its gargantuan opening would top Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($247.96M) and it would become the sixth film to top $200 million in its opening frame, joining The Force Awakens, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Jurassic World, The Avengers, and Black Panther.
Internationally, Marvel's latest is eyeing a worldwide debut in the $630 million range, which is the biggest global debut in box office history, nearly $100 million better than The Fate of the Furious worldwide launch last year. It'a also worth noting that Marvel has been able to accomplish all of this without any help from the Chinese and Russian box offices, which is absolutely ridiculous. It's actually hard not to wonder exactly how high the film could've gone had it secured a day-and-date release in the Middle Kingdom, where it opens on May 11th instead, but we may find out soon enough since we can probably expect Marvel to work extra hard at securing that simultaenous release next year for the still-untitled Avengers 4.
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An unprecedented cinematic journey ten years in the making and spanning the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Infinity War” brings to the screen the ultimate, deadliest showdown of all time. The Avengers and their Super Hero allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.
Avengers: Infinity War features:
Directors: Anthony & Joe Russo
Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America
Chris Hemsworth as Thor Odinson
Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk
Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow
Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye
Chris Pratt as Peter Quill/Star-Lord
Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange
Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa/Black Panther
Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man
Josh Brolin as Thanos
Tom Hiddleston as Loki
Zoe Saldana as Gamora
Paul Bettany as Vision
Danai Gurira as Okoye
Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch
Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon
Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes/White Wolf
Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/War Machine
Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer
Letitia Wright as Shuri
Terry Notary as Groot/Cull Obsidian
Vin Diesel as Groot (voice)
Sean Gunn as Rocket Raccoon
Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon (voice)
Karen Gillan as Nebula
Pom Klementieff as Mantis
Benicio del Toro as Taneleer Tivan/Collector
Michael James Shaw as Corvus Glaive
Carrie Coon as Proxima Midnight
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Ebony Maw
Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts
Benedict Wong as Wong
Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie
Idris Elba as Heimdall
Winston Duke as M'Baku
Florence Kasumba as Ayo
Sydelle Noel as Xoliswa
Angela Bassett as Ramonda
Linda Cardellini as Laura Barton
Callan Mulvey as Jack Rollins
Isabella Amara as Sally Avril
Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds
Peter Dinklage as Eitri
Kerry Condon as F.R.I.D.A.Y. (voice)
Stan Lee as Watcher Informant
Jim Starlin in an undisclosed cameo
Avengers: Infinity War is out in theaters NOW!
Avengers 4 hits theaters May 3, 2019