and Canada, Infinity War at $678.8M is the fourth highest-grossing movie of all time after Force Awakens ($936.6M), Avatar ($760.5M) and Black Panther ($700M). Other monumental achievements reached by Infinity War: It is Disney’s highest-grossing Marvel film at the global box office, ahead of the first Avengers movie in 2012 ($1.5B), and Disney’s second highest-grossing worldwide release ever (after Force Awakens). Infinity War was just $19.8M short of overtaking Force Awakens, underscoring the power of event moviegoing in a world where streaming threatens to keep more people at home. The ending of Infinity War left moviegoers gobsmacked and they shelled out $2 billion worldwide, making it one of four films in history to cross that box office threshold, following Fox’s Avatar ($2.78B), Paramount/Fox’s Titanic ($2.18B), and Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($2.06B). Villains sometimes win, and that was a compelling notion for the filmmakers.ĭeadline's 2018 Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament: Top Films, Biggest Bombs & Small Films That Could Despite putting even more Avengers characters onscreen than Captain America: Civil War, including recent blockbuster protagonist Black Panther and his cohorts, the Russos distinguished Infinity War from all other Marvel movies by having the movie told from Thanos’ point of view. Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely’s screenplay for Infinity War drew inspiration from Jim Starlin’s 1991 Marvel comic The Infinity Gauntlet and Jonathan Hickman’s 2013 Infinity title about the superhero team squaring off with the galactic villain Thanos. The question is, who will survive and make that jump? Currently, Marvel hasn’t announced what its two tentpoles it will set for next year, and fans are expected to have a better idea following Endgame. Both Infinity War and Endgame are primed to transition Marvel into a new cycle of superheroes. To get close to that mysterious end of the equation, Deadline is repeating our Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament for 2018, using data culled by seasoned and trusted sources.Īs the Marvel Cinematic Universe celebrated its 10-year anniversary last year, they tapped Anthony and Joe Russo to create the biggest cliffhanger arguably since Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back: Avengers: Infinity War, the first of the two-part finale that ends with Avengers: Endgameopening on April 26. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV.
When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn’t about what a film grosses at the box office.
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