While yesterday’s box office estimates indicatedAvengers: Infinity Warhad set a newbox officeopening weekend record, the official numbers released today revealed the tally was even bigger, both domestically and internationally. The official domestic opening weekend forAvengers: Infinity Warwas $258.2 million, which was even higher than the highest projections of $255 million, with an additional $382.7 million internationally for a worldwide total of $640.9 million, which is also a new record. What’s even more impressive about this foreign and worldwide record is this doesn’t include China, which will beInfinity War’s last international market, opening in the Middle Kingdom on May 11.
Marvelis having one heck of a success with it’s latest release.Avengers: Infinity War’s domestic tally beats the $247.9 million earned byStar Wars: The Force Awakensin 2015, and the global tally of $640.9 million beatsThe Fate of the Furious' worldwide all time opening weekend tally of $542 million. However, the $382.7 million foreign tally is good for thesecond biggest international opening weekend of all time, behindThe Fate of the Furiouswith $443 million, $185 million of which came from China alone. Despite beatingThe Force Awakens' all time domestic record, it couldn’t break that blockbuster’s opening weekend per-screen average record of $59,982, the largest ever for a wide release, withInfinity War’s $57,708 coming in second place.
With the movie already more than halfway to $1 billion worldwide, it may also break the record as the fastest film to hit $1 billion, whichStar Wars: The Force Awakensmanaged to do in just 12 days. Still, that record isn’t quite in the bag yet, andThe Force Awakenshad the advantage of kids being on Christmas break from school, to bolster weekday matinees and evening screenings, but with thissimply monstrous global opening weekend, it still may break that record at some point this week, if weekday screenings prove to be strong. Time will soon tell whether or notAvengers: Infinity Warwill be able to break a number of the other box office recordsStar Wars: The Force Awakenscurrently has.
Star Wars: The Force Awakensalso holds the records for the highest second weekend with $149.2 million, dropping just 39.8% from its record-setting debut weekend, and also the record for the highest third weekend with $90.2 million, dropping just 39.5% from its second weekend tally. The good news forAvengers: Infinity Waris that it doesn’t have much competition over the next two weeks, with three newcomers opening in wide release on May 4, Electric Entertainment’sBad Samaritanin 1,800 theaters, Pantelion’sOverboardin 1,500 theaters and Focus Features’Tullyin 1,200 theaters. Those counts all pale in comparison toAvengers: Infinity War’s 4,474-theater debut, the second widest release in history.
The big question is whether or notAvengers: Infinity Warcantop the all time domestic markof $936.6 million set byStar Wars: The Force Awakens, or the all time global mark of $2.7 billion set in 2009-2010 byAvatar. It won’t face much competition on May 11 either, going up against Universal’sBreaking Inand Warner Bros.‘Life of the Party, before its biggest test on May 18, where it faces 20th Century Fox’s superhero sequelDeadpool 2. You can head over toVarietyfor more on the global opening weekend ofAvengers: Infinity War.
