Is This Going To Beat Avatar?
Its slowing down especially in US, would di$ney buy out theaters to beat their own record. With them building Avatar land , they may pull out from record
shareGonna need another rerelease
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MovieChat Forums > Avengers: Endgame (2019) Discussion > Is This Going To Beat Avatar?
yes it did today!!
shareThey cheated though. They didn't beat avatar. Was about $12-15 million shy of it but they re-released it with useless ending stuff which made the fans go crazy about a 5 minute or less thingy that they flung their wallets out like the drones they are to beat Avatar.
sharePerhaps you aren't aware that Avatar was also re-released with an extra 9 minutes of footage, at a cost of $1 million.
Avatar initial release: $2,749,064,328
Endgame initial release $2,749,603,966
Avatar end total: $2,791,156,183
Endgame current total: $2,789,679,794
Also note that it took Avatar 34 weeks to get there, and Endgame only 12 weeks to pass it.
I don't think it's reasonable to say Endgame "cheated."
Thank you for addressing these sore losers with FACTS and NUMBERS. Each time I have to read the butthurt fanboys giving their opinion using the words cheat and re-release without even really knowing what they are talking about, I am like: wow, how have we progressed this far with so, but so many dumb people walking free in the world.
Now, regarding the "re-release", I know it is semantics and a technicality but for a movie to have a re-release, such movie had to have been out of the theaters completely. What Marvel/Disney did was more of an expansion including some marketing stuff (post credit, tribute), since Endgame was still playing in 900+ screens at the time. Expansions are common with films during their initial runs. So while I don't consider it a re-release, the important thing here is to make some people understand that even if they are stubborn and keep calling it a re-release, Endgame had already beaten Avatar original release before the expansion. And that even with the Avatar re-release (done 10 months after the movie was out of the theaters), Endgame passed it. So, yes, ENDGAME BEAT AVATAR, nice and clean...
Oh and before they come here with the inflation butthurt excuse, I had the duty to inform you that Endgame sold more tickets than Avatar, since most of the money from Avatar came from premium screens (3D and so), a gimmick that overtake any inflation excuse...