Marvel’sInfinity Warhas crossed yet anotherbox officemilestone, passing the $900 million plateau yesterday, virtually guaranteeing it will cross $1 billion in record time. The current record for fastest movie to $1 billion isStar Wars: The Force Awakens, which hit the mark in just 12 days.Avengers: Infinity Waris now expected to cross $1 billion either today, Friday, May 4, the movie’s original release date before it was unexpectedly pushed to April 27, or Saturday, May 5, which will be either its 10th or 11th day of global release, respectively. And this has all been done without any help from the second largest film market in the world, China, where it will debut on May 11.
As of last night,Avengers: Infinity Warhas earned $338.4 million in North America and $556.7 million internationally for a global tally of $905.1 million. Thesuperhero ensembleopened in its second-to-last international market last night, Russia, where it debuted with $4.9 million, the biggest opening day in the country’s history. WhileAvengers: Infinity Warwon’t need China’s help to cross the $1 billion plateau, if it fares well in the Middle Kingdom, it could help push it to the $2 billion mark, a tally that only three films have ever gotten to, 2015’sStar Wars: The Force Awakens($2.068 billion),Titanic($2.187 billion) and the all-time record holderAvatar($2.7 billion), which also holds the all-time overseas record with $2.027 billion.
Avengers: Infinity Warfaced no other new releases in its opening weekend, andwhile it does face three new competitorsin “wide” release, all three will still fall well short of this monstrous superhero hit. Electric Entertainment’sBad Samaritanhas the widest release of them all with 2,007 theaters, which pales in comparison to the 4,474 theater debut ofAvengers: Infinity War, the second-widest roll-out of all time. Pantelion’s comedy remakeOverboarddebuts in 1,623 theaters, while Focus Features’Tullyarrives in 1,353 theaters.Avengers: Infinity Waralso has the chance to break yet another record this weekend.
After breakingStar Wars: The Force Awakens’all-time opening weekend recordof $247.9 million, with $257.6 million,Avengers: Infinity Waris setting its sights on the all-time second weekend record.Star Wars: The Force Awakensholds that record too, earning an impressive $149.2 million in its second weekend to set the record, dropping just 39.8% from its debut weekend. IfAvengers: Infinity Warcan pull off a 40% drop in its second weekend, it will take in $154.5 million, to break yet another one ofThe Force Awakens' box office records. We won’t know for sure until Sunday if it will break this record, but we should know by then whether or notAvengers: Infinity Warwill surpass $1 billion in record time.
Looking ahead even further,Avengers: Infinity Warshould also have aneasy winnext weekend when it faces just two movies, Universal’s thrillerBreaking Inand Warner Bros./New Line’s comedyLife of the Party. Earth’s Mightiest Heroes' biggest box office challenge will be on May 18, when it faces the highly-anticipated R-rated sequelDeadpool 2.The Hollywood Reporterbroke the news onInfinity Warpassing the $900 million mark today.
