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avenger : Endgame’sdomesticbox office openingmay have been more than three times greater thanAvatar ’s , butAvatar’sweekly box office take was already outpacingAvengers : Endgame’shead - to - head by their third workweek of dismissal . There ’s been acute speculation aboutwhich movie would end up as the top moviein the all - time box office , but a closer face at the hebdomadal numbers showsAvengers : Endgamenever even had a chance .
AsAvengers : Endgamegrinds to a ending of its theatrical run , it ’s becoming clear that the box office heavyweight , despite a record - breakage opening , is not get to surpassAvatar’stotal box office take , and even aspecial re - passing ( really just an expansion ) likely wo n’t be enoughfor Marvel Studios and Disney to catch James Cameron’snumber one all - meter box office disk holder(which is also handily nowowned by Disney , although it was created under the principle of 20th Century Fox ) .
It may seem crazy forAvengers : Endgameto see the heap of a X of franchise building through over 20 movies , resulting in thebiggest opening weekend of all sentence , yet still decrease curt of a ten - year - old stand - alone picture without a fanbase anywhere near bombastic or avid as Marvel ’s , but a smell at each movie ’s leg prepare the realism their box office standing more clear .
Avatar’s Been Beating Avengers: Endgame Since Week 3
agree to Box Office Mojo , Avatar’sweekly domestic box officetake experienced a seldom seenincreaseof 6.9 % in its second hebdomad followed by an imposingly grim 33.9 % drop in its third week , resulting in a $ 96,916,087 third week domestic catch . Meanwhile , Avengers : Endgamesaw an modal - to - good weekly dropof 60.6 % its second hebdomad and 56.6 % in its third week , earn $ 80,949,131 in week three , place it well belowAvatar’sweekly earnings .
Avatarcontinued this tendency with dementedly low workweek - over - calendar week domesticated drops , like week five ’s 5.1 % free fall or hebdomad nine ’s 9.7%increase . Avatar , on the other hand , would n’t see a hebdomadary free fall of more than hebdomad one ’s 33.9 % until it dropped 42.5 % in calendar week five . Avataronly saw one week - to - workweek bead greater than 50 % , which was a 62.7 % drop in week 31 , the big drop of its intact political campaign , with most calendar week reduce by less than 30 % , include a handful of extra increases . Avengers : Endgame , on the other hand , in its first eight weeks has only posted a pearl less than 34 % once with 23.9 % in calendar week eight with two workweek set down in the mid-30s , two weeks in the mid-50s and calendar week two 60.6 % drop .
Avatarisn’t the only matter beatingAvengers : Endgamein its eighth week , either . WhileTitanicactually take the top spot overAvatarfor its various eighth week ( proving James Cameron create movies with good legs),Avengers : Endgameranks 134th all - prison term for its eighth week , just belowSteel Magnolias . Other movies thatbeatAvengers : Endgamein their eighth weekof release includePaul Blart : Mall Cop(102nd),Wonder Woman(80th),Stuart Little , Crocodile Dundee(48th ) , andStar war : The Phantom Menace(19th ) . There ’s also a handful of other Marvel movies likeGuardians of the Galaxy(54th),Avengers : Infinity War(51st),The Avengers(24th),Captain Marvel(12th ) , andBlack Panther(10th ) .
Avengers: Endgame’s Average Legs Couldn’t Keep Up With Avatar
All this despiteAvengers : Endgamebeing available on more screen thanAvatarwas at this stage . Avatardebuted on 3,461 screens whileAvengers : Endgamedebuted on 4,662 and keep a magnanimous phone number of screen up until workweek 7 , whereAvatarmaintained a presence on 3,000 screens ( only 75 few than week six ) , whileAvengers : Endgamedropped to 2,121 CRT screen , a monolithic drop from the late week ’s 3,105 screens . Naturally , this meansAvatarposted a much higher per - screen average every calendar week except for opening calendar week .
Some fans maintain hope that a longer theatrical run , including a re - expansion of screens , will helpAvengers : Endgamemake up the lingering remainder between the two films , but with a diminishing per screen average ( Avatarwas earning 300 % more per screen at this spot in its running ) andheavy competition on the way from other Disney franchiseslikeToy Story 4,Spider - Man : Far From Home , andThe Lion King , Disney is going to push itself out of the market , ensuringAvengers : Endgamedoesn’t have the chance to make up the difference . Although consideringAvatar’slegs examine it do better in its 34th ( and last ) week of its initial box office run ( it would return a few weeks later for another 12 workweek , bringing in an extra $ 33 million globally ) , it ’s clearAvengers : Endgamehad already fluff its chances of catchingAvatarby its third workweek .
Of of course , equate the numbers of the two movies is like apples and oranges in many ways . The Hollywood landscape painting has been drastically altered sinceAvatar’srelease , ticket prices have go up , the international box office has burst , the numbers presented are n’t adjusted for pomposity , andAvatarmade its massive haul mostly from premium 3D and IMAX slate price . WhileBox Office Mojo estimatesAvatarsold more tickets domestically thanAvengers : Endgame , that figuring in all probability does n’t account for format deviation , so the total ticket sold is still mirky , althoughAvataralso soundly beatAvengers : Endgameat the international box office in entire unadjusted gross .
At the death of the twenty-four hour period , AvatarandAvengers : Endgameare both cinematic and loge office achievements , with a gap between Avengers : Endgameand the figure three movie , James Cameron’sTitanic , of over $ 500 million . The unprecedented buildup toAvengers : Endgamecertainly yield it a major encouragement , though , contributing to its first step phonograph record . Ultimately’Avengers : Endgame’sstaying power did n’t live up to its ballyhoo , as is also demonstrated by its IMDB ranking where itskyrocketed to numeral 3 on the website ’s top 250 list , although that initial enthusiasm has waned as it has slowly dropped out of the top 10 to ( a still respectable ) figure 14.Avatar , meanwhile , does n’t even appear anywhere in the top 250 , so its bequest may be more delineate by its still untasted box office book and the reception of itsmultiple incoming sequel .
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Source : Box Office Mojo
