You Did It, True Believers: Avengers: Endgame Is Now The Highest-Grossing Film Ever
It finally happened.
Avengers: Endgame has finally surpassed James Cameron's
Avatar because the highest-grossing film in history.
The time-traveling superhero epic earned an estimated $2.79 billion in income around the world in just 13 weeks, which has finally edged it over the line to beat
Avatar's $2.789 billion, according to
The Associated Press. With this latest development,
Avatar has been dethroned right after an entire decade of sitting atop the charts.
Marvel head
Kevin Feige took to Twitter to celebrate the milestone from San Diego Comic-Con, thanking fans for making the movie such a success.
The movie's next milestone? Becoming the highest-grossing domestic film of all time. Currently,
Star Wars: The Force Awakens holds that record, sitting at $936.6 million. Now,
Endgame is hovering around $83 million short of reaching that objective, according to
Deadline – yet that definitely could change.
Much of this success can be owed to a new version of the movie that debuted in theaters, which included few deleted scenes at its conclusion, a tribute to the legendary
Stan Lee, plus a post-credits scene that fans certainly had to stay immediately following the movie to catch.
Avengers: Endgame with expanded content opened on June 28, letting the new totals begin rolling in following that, and yes it usually have been enough to put it over the edge at long last.
Disney co-chairman and chief creative officer Alan Horn also shared words of encouragement and appreciation to the teams that made all of this possible
in a statement.
“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,”
With this accomplishment, Disney can right now give itself a pat on the back. A mind-blowing 7 of the best 10 highest-grossing films ever belong to the Residence of Mouse. And with a
upcoming slate of movies like what was just shared throughout SDCC 2019, it looks like it's only up for here any time it comes to super-powered success. It truly is the age of the superhero, right after all.
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