Before the blockbuster is even released Stateside, Marvel‘s Avengers: Endgame has already raked in $169 million USD at the worldwide box office, earning a place among the top ten highest-grossing movies worldwide this year. In light of yet another record broken, we’ve compiled a list — which we’ll keep adding to — of all the records the superhero mega film has already broken, and will break.
First off, when the first trailer for Endgame dropped on December 7 2018, Marvel’s clip received a whopping 289 million views during its first 24 hours, becoming the most-watched trailer of all time within that timeframe. The feat was followed up with the second Endgame trailer released earlier this year in March, when fans flooded youtube with 268 million views within the first day, pushing the updated trailer to second place, just behind its predecessor.
Aside from trailer views, the newest instalment of the Avengers also hit pre-sale tickets by storm. Not only did the film smash ticketing records for the first-hour and first-day categories at Fandango and Atom, it’s then gone on to sell almost twice as many tickets as Aquaman, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Captain Marvel and Avengers: Infinity War combined. Some saw a resell opportunity from this, with opening weekend tickets selling on eBay for as much as $10,000 USD.
The record-breaking spree extends further into cinemas as well. Just in its opening weekend, Avengers: Endgame is set to play on a whopping 4,600 screens — more than any other movie before. There are already 8,000 sold-out showtimes, a record-breaker five times the amount of first-week pre-sales for Infinity War, easily topping the most first-day sales record previously held by Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
With the movie’s review embargo lifted, critics came rushing in with their own take of the movie, and Endgame quickly became the highest rated film on Rotten Tomatoes, amassing a score of 98%, taking over the throne that Black Panther used to hold with 97%.
As the movie is released Stateside, we’ll definitely be seeing more records broken by this most-anticipated superhero blockbuster of our generation, so stay tuned for more updates to come.
And if you’re dodging spoilers for the film left and right like most of us, check out how to best avoid them here.
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