[#item_full_content] [[{“value”:”Avengers: Endgame returned to 3,060 theaters and topped the charts with $26 million. That brings its lifetime domestic total to $884 million, still behind only The Force Awakens ($936.6 million) and Spider-Man: Brand New Day ($950.6 million after a $4.1 million ninth weekend). If it legs out like Revenge of the Sith’s 20th-anniversary release ($34.1 million from a $25.5 million debut in April 2025), the Encore edition will finish with $34.5 million, on par with both Star Wars Episode III and Fathom Entertainment’s Coraline reissue ($33.6 million from a $12.7 million Thurs-Sun debut) in August 2024. The best-case scenario is that it legs out like The Lion King 3-D ($94 million/$30 million in September 2011), which would give this reissue a total of $81 million.
That scenario would put it just past Star Wars Episode VII’s lifetime domestic total, but the real musical chairs will be happening overseas. With $60 million outside North America and $86 million globally, Avengers: Endgame has now earned $2.885 billion worldwide. That puts it around $39 million below Avatar’s $2.924 billion lifetime total. Recall that Avengers: Endgame earned $2.799 billion in the summer of 2019, enough to surpass Avatar’s $2.788 billion running total and claim the #1 spot on the all-time charts. However, Zoe Saldana snatched the crown back from Zoe Saldana in early 2021 thanks to a Chinese re-release that grossed $58 million. Unless this reissue collapses tomorrow, we can safely say that Avatar is about to get knocked down to second place for the second time.
The film skewed 67% PLF in North America, including 14% in IMAX, 4% in ScreenX (which is how I sampled it this past Friday… I still respect the idea more than I enjoy the execution) and 12% in various 3-D formats. While seemingly every PLF that wasn’t an IMAX got the InfinityVision sticker, I’m most interested in the 35% that attended in “PLF 2D,” which is probably exactly the kind of localized or chain-specific PLF auditoriums that the designation is targeting (think theaters that got marked as THX-compliant back in the day) for Avengers: Doomsday this December. Speaking of which, I frankly hate the new footage, especially the altered ending, which undercuts what was previously a lovely fade-to-black moment. The good news is that I never have to watch that version ever again.
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