Avengers: Endgame continued adding to its bulging coffers and pile of box office records as it closed out its opening week.
Finishing week one with $7,394,151 (which doesn’t include day one takings of almost $2 million), the local records it now holds include: No. 1 – Opening Days of All Time, No. 1 – Opening Weekends of All Time, No. 1 – Grossing Film of 2019 and No. 1 – Opening Weeks of All Time (for context, the previous largest opening week was Star Wars: The Force Awakens with $6,261,547).
The film is now more than halfway to all-time NZ box office champ Avatar, and its record haul of $17,367,465.
Internationally, records grabbed by Endgame include:
U.S. DOMESTIC
Biggest opening weekend – $350M
First film to cross $300M opening weekend
Fastest film to $100M – 17 hours
Highest Thursday previews – $60M
Biggest single day – $156.7M (April 26)
Biggest all-time Saturday – $109M (April 27)
Biggest all-time Sunday – $84.3M (April 28)
Widest release ever – 4,662 theaters
Biggest IMAX Marvel opening weekend – $26.5M
GLOBAL
Biggest opening weekend – $1.209B
First film to cross $1B on opening weekend – $1.209B
Fastest film to $1B – 5 days
Biggest IMAX opening weekend – $91.5M
Highest 3D opening weekend – $540M
INTERNATIONAL
Biggest opening weekend ever – $859M (54 material markets)
China
Biggest opening weekend – $330.5M (RMB 2.22B)
Biggest opening day – $107.8M (RMB 725M, including midnights)
Biggest single day, excluding midnights – $81.7M (RMB 550M)
Fastest film to RMB 2B
Biggest IMAX opening – $42.4M
Expect more records to be added to the haul in coming days and weeks.
But what of every other film that finds itself scrambling for attention this week?
1. Avengers: Endgame $7,394,151 (Walt Disney)
2. The LEGO Movie 2 $271,991 (Warner Bros.)
3. Red Joan $177,934 (Transmission)
4. Wonder Park $175,763 (Paramount)
5. Dumbo $168,894 (Walt Disney)
6. Shazam! $151,368 (Warner Bros.)
7. The Curse of the Weeping Woman $105,477 (Warner Bros.)
8. They Shall Not Grow Old $50,234 (Warner Bros.)
9. Kalank $50,157 (Forum Films)
10. Missing Link $48,678 (Roadshow)
Source: Numero. Estimated figures as at 2:06pm, 2/5/19
