Box-Office Weekend: Avengers: Endgame Shatters Records

The latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), and the one everything has been building towards, Avengers: Endgame opened with a three-day domestic gross of an estimated $350 million. This staggering amount gives the Marvel juggernaut the largest opening weekend box-office tally of all-time.

In a very distant second place (approximately $342 million behind) was Marvel’s other current blockbuster in the top ten, Captain Marvel, which brought in $8.1 million to give it an eight-week total of $413.6 million. The horror film The Curse of La Llorona added $7.5 million in the third spot to give it a two-week total of $41.3 million. Meanwhile, the inspirational film Breakthrough finished in fourth place with $6.3 million over the weekend to give it a two-week total of $26.1 million.

The DC super hero film Shazam! continues to do decent business, with $5.5 million this weekend, landing it in the fifth spot and delivering a four-week total of $131.1 million. The comedy Little added another $3.4 million to give it a three-week total of $35.8 million as it begins to slide out of the top ten. Dumbo, the story of the erstwhile flying elephant, meanwhile took in another $3.2 million to give it a rather disappointing five-week cumulative total of $107 million. In its fourth week of release the horror film remake Pet Sematary lifted its grand total to approximately $52.6 million with a $1.3 million showing this weekend.

Jordan Peele’s Us lifted its six-week cum to $172.8 million by taking in $1.1 million over the weekend and landing in ninth place, albeit tied with the documentary Penguins, which also brought in $1.1 million in its second week of release.

Looking forward to next weekend, a new animated feature, Uglydolls, as well as a new comedy, Long Shot, will open alongside the new thriller The Intruder in an attempt to dethrone Avengers: Endgame. A Herculean task indeed.

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Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com

An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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