After setting a record worldwide opening of $640 million this past weekend, it was only a matter of time before Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War surpassed the total box office haul of Warner Bros.’ Justice League.
Well, sure enough it only took one more day to achieve that feat, as Infinity War grossed $24.7 million in North America on Monday, pushing its global haul beyond the $658 million total that its DC competitor pulled in following its release last November.
International figures for Monday are still to come in, but Infinity War will cross the $700 million mark worldwide today (if it didn’t manage to do so yesterday with its international numbers) and will presumably join the billion dollar club in its second weekend.
UPDATE: International figures are now in, and Infinity War added a further $60.3 million from these markets on Monday, for $725.5 million and counting.
Infinity War will also expand into Russia this Friday, before making its way to the lucrative Chinese market on May 11th. By that point, it seems likely it will have surpassed the $1.519 billion haul of 2012’s The Avengers to become Marvel’s highest-grossing release to date.
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An unprecedented cinematic journey ten years in the making and spanning the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Infinity War” brings to the screen the ultimate, deadliest showdown of all time. The Avengers and their Super Hero allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.
Avengers: Infinity War stars Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Captain America), Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther), Tom Holland (Spider-Man), Sebastian Stan (Winter Soldier), Anthony Mackie (Falcon), Paul Bettany (Vision), Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet Witch), Don Cheadle (War Machine), Josh Brolin (Thanos), Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange), Benedict Wong (Wong), Chris Pratt (Star-Lord), Zoe Saldana (Gamora), Dave Bautista (Drax), Bradley Cooper (Rocket), Sean Gunn (Rocket), Vin Diesel (Groot), Karen Gillan (Nebula), Pom Klementieff (Mantis), Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), Cobie Smulders (Maria Hill), Benicio Del Toro (The Collector), Danai Gurira (Okoye), Letitia Wright (Shuri), Winston Duke (M’Baku), Terry Notary (Cull Obsidian), Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Ebony Maw), Carrie Coon (Proxima Midnight), Michael James Shaw (Corvus Glaive) and Peter Dinklage (Eitri).
