Avengers: Endgame has retained its No. 1 position at the domestic box office for a third week in a row. The Marvel title beat newcomer Detective Pikachu, with Endgame earning $61.3 million stateside. The movie’s cumulative global box office is now $2.485 billion, with the superhero installment only second to James Cameron’s all-time earner, Avatar. …
Read More »‘Avengers: Endgame’ Passes ‘Titanic’ Globally With $2.2B
Avengers: Endgame is now the second-highest-grossing film of all time with $2.189 billion. It has surpassed James Cameron’s Titanic (1997), which earned $2.187 billion (unadjusted for inflation). Endgame achieved the remarkable feat after collecting another $145.8 million domestically and $282.2 million overseas in its second weekend. Heading into the weekend, the Avengers installment earned the highest-grossing week of …
Read More »‘Captain Marvel’ Conquers Box Office For Second Week
Captain Marvel easily stayed No. 1 in its second weekend, earning another $69.3 million in North America and $119.7 million overseas for a mighty worldwide total of $760.2 million. The pic’s global tally includes $266.2 million in domestic ticket sales, and $494 million from overseas.The first female-led superhero pic from Marvel …
Read More »‘Captain Marvel’ Sets Box Office Records
Captain Marvel, starring Brie Larson, shattered the glass ceiling in its box office debut with $455 million in worldwide ticket sales, including $153 million in North America. The tentpole’s global launch reps the biggest ever for a female-fronted film — eclipsing Beauty and the Beast ($357 million) and doubling Wonder Woman ($223 …
Read More »‘Into The Spiderverse’ Spins Web Over Box Office
In another win for Sony’s stable of Marvel films,Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse swung to $35.4 million in its domestic debut — the best December opening ever for an animated film — laying the course for a strong run over the year-end holidays. The critically acclaimed film, produced by Philip Lord and Christopher …
Read More »‘Venom’ Holds Top Spot At Box Office
Venom easily stayed atop the chart in its second outing with $35.7 million, while A Star Is Born pulls in another $28 million. Universal’s critically acclaimed astronaut dramaFirst Man faltered in its box-office blastoff, grossing $16.5 million from 3,640 theaters to come in well behind holdovers Venom and A Star Is Born. …
Read More »‘Venom’ Blows Box Office Away
Once again proving a movie can do heroic business any month of the year, Sony’s comic book movie Venom devoured a massive $80 million from 4,250 theaters in its domestic opening, easily the best showing ever for an October title.Overseas, Venom, starring Tom Hardy as the Marvel antihero, soared to …
Read More »‘Ant-Man and The Wasp’ Have Big Box Office Win
Ant-Man and the Wasp may have leveled off a bit in its North American box-office debut, but it had no trouble crushing the competition over the weekend with $76 million — or coming in 33 percent ahead of the first Ant-Man as Disney and Marvel Studios cement the standing of …
Read More »‘Deadpool 2’ Ousts ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ At The Top Of The Box Office
Superheroes continued to dominate the box office as Ryan Reynolds and 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool 2 debuted to $125 million domestically and $301 million globally after scoring the biggest foreign debut in history for an R-rated title. After falling off more than expected on Saturday, the sequel couldn’t match the North …
Read More »‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Continues Breaking Box Office Records
Disney and Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War finished its third weekend at the box office with $1.606 billion in global ticket sales after earning another $61.8 million in North America and launching in China to a near-record $200 million.The movie’s domestic weekend take of $61.8 million was the fourth-biggest gross for …
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