‘Avengers: Endgame’ Finally Conquers King of The World James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ To Becoming The Highest Grossing Film Of All-Time
Marvel Boss Kevin Feige made it official today at the studio’s Comic-Con panel that Avengers: Endgame is clicking past Avatar‘s $2,789.7B billion global box office this weekend to become the biggest film of all-time at the box office. It took nine years, but it finally happened. There is currently a gap of $500K in global ticket sales between Avatar and Endgame and the latter will click past that tomorrow.
“Thanks to you, Avengers: Endgame is the biggest film of all-time,” Feige told Hall H at the top of the Marvel panel.
As of this minute, the global B.O. for Endgame through yesterday stands at $2,789.2 billion, while Avatar is at $2,789.7B. Why are Avatar‘s grosses higher then what’s on Box Office Mojo? Because its global B.O. was updated by Disney/Fox to reflect a small amount of reissue grosses in various territories over the years.
A great deal of the acceleration with Endgame had to do with a re-release that Disney/Marvel did with the Avengers pic on June 28 which featured a deleted Hulk sequence, a Stan Lee tribute and a post-credits scene featuring characters from Sony’s Spider-Man: Far From Home. At that time, Endgame was $37M from toppling Avatar, and many –both Disney insiders and rival distribution sources– didn’t believe the re-release would put the superhero pic over the top. Endgame foreign territories outside China and the U.S. were quite short when compared to those of Avatar. However, we understand that extra cash from offshore flowed in. This weekend, Endgame in its 13th weekend is expected to make an estimated $1.28M from 985 theaters at the domestic B.O. putting its running tally at $854.2M.
It only took Endgame 10 days to defeat Titanic‘s lifetime global record. At the domestic box office, Endgame has settled in the No. 2 spot on the all-time list, $82.5M behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ $936.6M.
When Joe and Anthony Russo were asked yesterday at their AGBO Studios Comic-Con panel about Endgame ultimately conquering Avatar, the latter answered, “The fact that people have responded to Endgame this way and they’ve been following theses characters for so long, it’s cathartic for us to see in that the storytelling has played out globally. James Cameron is an idol for us, and he’s fed our passion for filmmaking from the beginning”
Only five films have passed the $2B mark at the global B.O., and between Cameron and the Russos they own two apiece: Cameron with Avatar and Titanic in spots 2 and 3,and the Russos with Avengers: Endgame and Avengers: Infinity War in spots 1 and 5. J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens stills ranks forth worldwide with $2.068B. In total, the Russos have racked up over $6.8 billion in their directing credits at the worldwide box office.
Beamed Alan Horn, Co-Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, The Walt Disney Studios in a statement today: “A 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. Of course, even with the passage of a decade, the impact of James Cameron’s Avatar remains as powerful as ever, and the astonishing achievements of both of these films are ongoing proof of the power of movies to move people and bring them together in a shared experience. The talented filmmakers behind these worlds have much more in store, and we look forward to the future of both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Pandora.”
Disney will get the chance to upset Endgame‘s global B.O. title when it releases Cameron’s Avatar 2 on Dec. 17, 2021.
i watched spiderman: far from home today. i enjoyed it, like i did homecoming, but i just can't get that into the character. holland is talented performer and i thought the movie was well done; i've just experienced an overdose of spiderman in my lifetime (this would be his eighth visit to the silver screen, not counting appearances in other franchises). i was hoping that steve would make an appearance, even though if he did, caps of spoilers would have appeared by now. feige announced phase 4 today, and i got maudlin again. we're getting a thor 4, no cap (which, in fairness, was announced before comic-con, and was self-evident after endgame). if nothing, else, the marvel movies gave us almost a scheduled stream of quality movies, with regular appearances. that's over now. marvel is also now a completely different beast than when he joined. it's a vortex off-screen as well as on-screen, sucking up all the talent--seems like everyone wants to be in a marvel movie now. it started out as this scrapper, but now it has the likes of angelina jolie and rachel weisz. it actually shocked me to read that mahershala ali actually called feige for a meeting to be blade after her got an academy award. this struck me as odd because ali was copperhead in the luke cage netflix series. i would have just thought he was part of the "marvel family" and could just meet with feige anytime. i.e., part of the fun of growing up with marvel was that it was an unknown quantity, and it was nice seeing chris make people eat crow and help make marvel the juggernaut it is today. now marvel has academy award winners knocking down its doors and asking for meetings with feige, and he recruits top talent with the same ease ordinary people change shoes.
OTOH, while i'm sad to see him end his run, i also do recognize he has been a loyal "company man," regularly making extra appearances outside his contract. i don't doubt those appearances really did keep him tied up, and i can't blame him if he wants to spread his wings a little.
and i wouldn't doubt that he might make an appearance some time down the road. if they ever do a secret wars (which i've not read, but is basically an interdimensional showdown), i don't doubt that he would at least make a guest appearance (as would a tony from another dimension). and i wouldn't be surprised if old steve showed up now and again the same way a tony AI hologram is likely to make appearances.
Am I glad he's done? Yes. In a way. The whole Marvel ride has been a blast but all good things come to an end. It obviously transformed his career in terms of his profile (and earnings!). I'm old enough to remember having to explain who Chris Evans was and having people think I was talking about the radio personality (not applicable outside the UK, I guess). Much as I have enjoyed the Marvel films I have always got more excited about other projects. I'd rather see him starring in something like Gifted than see seven minutes of him in an Avengers film. I would also rather he went out on a high than stick around until it started going stale and people maybe lost interest. He's now in a stronger position to pick and choose without really having to just grab anything. The truth is that although he presumably wants to work for his own sense of fulfilment, financially he could retire to Concord now and spend the rest of his days doing his garden. So all in all I have enjoyed the Cap days but I'm ready to move on and am excited to see what's coming. I am also hugely happy that his Cap was so enormously successful and loved. He will be Steve Rogers for at least one generation probably more.
I've never really gone along much with those who tweet 'I miss them/him/it'. The beauty of film is that you never have to miss them. Just watch them again!! It's on fucking film!
I will not miss the circus that goes along with being at the centre of a huge franchise. Chris ended up dealing really well with it but he's never been totally comfortable with the attention. Maybe too as he moves away from Marvel the fans who confuse the Chris Evans who dates them in their heads with the real one will grow up and move on.
And this is very true -
OTOH, while i'm sad to see him end his run, i also do recognize he has been a loyal "company man," regularly making extra appearances outside his contract. i don't doubt those appearances really did keep him tied up, and i can't blame him if he wants to spread his wings a little.
and i wouldn't doubt that he might make an appearance some time down the road. if they ever do a secret wars (which i've not read, but is basically an interdimensional showdown), i don't doubt that he would at least make a guest appearance (as would a tony from another dimension). and i wouldn't be surprised if old steve showed up now and again the same way a tony AI hologram is likely to make appearances.
"The movie came to life every time you were on the screen." Stan Lee to Chris Evans.
Am I glad he's done? Yes. In a way. The whole Marvel ride has been a blast but all good things come to an end. It obviously transformed his career in terms of his profile (and earnings!). I'm old enough to remember having to explain who Chris Evans was and having people think I was talking about the radio personality (not applicable outside the UK, I guess). Much as I have enjoyed the Marvel films I have always got more excited about other projects. I'd rather see him starring in something like Gifted than see seven minutes of him in an Avengers film. I would also rather he went out on a high than stick around until it started going stale and people maybe lost interest. He's now in a stronger position to pick and choose without really having to just grab anything. The truth is that although he presumably wants to work for his own sense of fulfilment, financially he could retire to Concord now and spend the rest of his days doing his garden. So all in all I have enjoyed the Cap days but I'm ready to move on and am excited to see what's coming. I am also hugely happy that his Cap was so enormously successful and loved. He will be Steve Rogers for at least one generation probably more.
I've been mulling this over this morning, coming to grips with the fact that his time in the MCU is, indeed, over.
However on the flipside I'm so looking forward to Red Sea Diving Resort, Knives Out and Defending Jacob. I hope he gets another directing gig too.
The world is a big place, and Cap will have opened doors for him that he wouldn't have gotten through otherwise. He's had the chance to do Broadway, to direct a movie, to go back to doing TV, to not work for a year so he can remodel his house and adopt a gorgeous furbaby!! He's most definitely A-List now, rather than just a moderately successful actor, and the possibilities for his future career are endless - it's up to him to take the reigns and decide what he wants to do!
I've never really gone along much with those who tweet 'I miss them/him/it'. The beauty of film is that you never have to miss them. Just watch them again!! It's on fucking film!
Yup. And Netflix, and the new Disney+ streaming service! Plus he's not retiring like he indicated a few years ago. He's still going to act.
Personally I think that with Lobby Hero and Defending Jacob he's trying to decide where he wants his career to go - what he wants to do in the future. I still think he'll do movies, just not exclusively. I think he'll give Broadway another shot too, but maybe not for a few years yet.
I will not miss the circus that goes along with being at the centre of a huge franchise. Chris ended up dealing really well with it but he's never been totally comfortable with the attention. Maybe too as he moves away from Marvel the fans who confuse the Chris Evans who dates them in their heads with the real one will grow up and move on.
He always looks uncomfortable at the photo ops, and even the recent Defending Jacob set pics with fans he's always in the same pose.
That last part is so true. There are so many people I interact with on Facebook that can't see beyond Steve Rogers. That can't seem to seperate him as an actor from the characters he plays. He is, and has always been, so much more than Steve Rogers!
OTOH, while i'm sad to see him end his run, i also do recognize he has been a loyal "company man," regularly making extra appearances outside his contract. i don't doubt those appearances really did keep him tied up, and i can't blame him if he wants to spread his wings a little.
and i wouldn't doubt that he might make an appearance some time down the road. if they ever do a secret wars (which i've not read, but is basically an interdimensional showdown), i don't doubt that he would at least make a guest appearance (as would a tony from another dimension). and i wouldn't be surprised if old steve showed up now and again the same way a tony AI hologram is likely to make appearances.
I think there's part of him that's glad this is over. He doesn't need to do cons and ops any more, he doesn't need to spend the time out of his life doing them. I think some part of him will miss it but there'll be a part that doesn't, that's glad that bit of his life is over. He does a lot for Christopher's Haven that doesn't get publicised, and this won't change.
In short, as sad as I am today that we won't see his Cap on the big screen again. We'll see him - and that's to be celebrated!
"When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.” —Eckhart Tolle
Just 30 days into filming, Johansson introduced teaser footage of hand-to-hand combat in Budapest to a big audience at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday. Post the teaser launch, Johansson as well as the cast members spoke at length about the film. In one of her interactions at SDCC, Scarlett also revealed which Marvel star she would prefer spending an entire day with at Disney Land. When quizzed, Scarlett said, "Of course Evans (Chris), because he and I are both enormous Disney fans. It's our dream to be in Disney. Just the two of us and ride every ride in the park."
I completely agree with the post above. I'm sad to see him go as Captain America. He gave that character life. And in return he grew as an actor and a person. He can now afford to do projects that he may not have been given a chance to do. Plus, he can now take time off if he so chooses. I'm a fan of the man, Chris Evans. Did I love watching him as Captain America? Of course. But his future is bright and opened to whatever he dreams to do. That really makes me happy for him.