I'm in the U.S. and saw it yesterday at noon and the crowd sucked. Silence.
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Wkd Box Office - 4•26-28•19 - Endgame obliterates weekend records. $350M+ Domestic. $1.209B worldwide. It's an Avengers World.
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I'm in the U.S. and saw it yesterday at noon and the crowd sucked. Silence.
As a Canadian, thank god. I'm not paying money for people's hot takes and conversations. I'm there to watch a movie I paid money for. Cheering is one thing, shouting or conversations? Give me my money back. Canadians HATE US movie culture.
RDJ rep was so bad at the time his salary was $500k for IM1. I think Terence Howard's was $4 million.
Yep. I believe he got an extra 4M if they made a sequel.
I've been a HUGE RDJ fan since Pick-Up Artist. Good to see...
This isn't meant to be a rub-in-your-face reply but I can't understand why some downplayed how much this thing was going to make. The hype and excitement around Endgame is leagues more than any MCU film including Infinity War. Everyone and their mother was going to see it. To think it'd only do slightly better than IW was never realistic imo lol.
I think it'll outdo Shazam easily, I'm just dismissing the huge hyped numbers.
On another note, add me to the 3B train, if somebody is keeping track. I felt it would be cheap to join the 1B OW train in the last couple weeks after initially dismissing that.
it's easy to say this now, which everyone seems to be doing. But few would have said this or even thought this a week ago. IMO, the ones downplaying are those acting like $100m+ over IW isn't absolute insanity.
i mean just Friday most BO insiders were saying EG's Saturday cap was $95m, lol
I had it on par with IW. I don't think anyone thought it would blow up this big.
Just felt the same people who saw the last one would see this one and didn't expect everyone and their mother would see it.
Imagine Terance Howard looking at what all this has become rn.
That's how it was for everyone in phase one. Evans. Thor, ScarJo, Hulk, all got less for their first flicks.
Straight up skipping the 300 million milestone to go straight to 350 is incredible. No movie will break the record by that much probably for decades if ever
I don't know...I genuinely figured it'd be MASSIVE simply right after Infinity War killed it at the BO. I never estimated by how much because I'm no BO expert but still. And once those Fandango pre-ticket sales outpacing IW by 5:1...yeah it was clear we were kind of in uncharted territory.
Well, yeah, but this was before the tickets went on sale. At least for me.
I'm still shook at someone thinking the next thing to come close to this would be "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"... like whaaaa?
Only in retrospect will people see how rare and momentous an event like this is. A decade. 22 films. That's probably once once in a lifetime stuff... until the next phase anyway
Only in retrospect will people see how rare and momentous an event like this is. A decade. 22 films. That's probably once once in a lifetime stuff... until the next phase anyway
Oh I'm sure the record will fall but the amount it falls by will be much less than 100 million.
That doesn't make RDJ's rep bad. Howard was pretty damn big in 2008.
Infinity War at 257
TFA at 247
TLJ at 220
Jurassic World at 208
Avengers at 207
Black Panther at 202
You seeing the pattern, with one exception?
Disney has way too much goddamn money
It did? Wow I never knew that :o
Maybe if the drop isn't that big
Guess so
Whatever it is, it'll most likely be another Avengers or Marvel-related property.
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So far 144 box office records have been broken
TheWrap has tallied 144 different box office records that "Endgame" has broken since tickets first went on sale at the start of April, including advance ticket sales, premium formats, and opening day and weekend records in countries around the world.
TheWrap has tallied 144 different box office records that "Endgame" has broken since tickets first went on sale at the start of April, including advance ticket sales, premium formats, and opening day and weekend records in countries around the world.
I checked one of my local multiplexes for Endgame showings today (I took this screenshot around 3:30PM)...
(The showings with strikethroughs / lines crossed out are showings that sold out of tickets.)
(The showings with strikethroughs / lines crossed out are showings that sold out of tickets.)
I been saying the film cooled greatly from the initial trailer. And the followups look like standard talking animal and human stuff.
Well he was getting 50m by the time they hit avengers so a 100x pay increase in 4 years ain't bad
Even as a huge mcu fan I didn't think theaters had the capacity for this big of an opening. Plus it's hard to gauge hype when everyone I know was already as hyped as can be for infinity war
I started to think this was gonna break the record even with the runtime when I saw the AM screenings around me were selling out and normally my theaters don't even have AM screenings (don't think they had them for IW)
Edit: oh also I thought the runtime would limit the amount of showings theaters could do
I think the real answer to this is that nobody had any idea just how aggressive Disney's engagement with exhibitors was.
The amount of screens that Disney managed to procure for Endgame is literally unprecedented. They've secured a bucketload more screens than any other blockbuster ever.
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