Originally published May 3, 2019. Updated May 4, 2019.
Considering it almost doubled the previous record for an opening weekend, it certainly wasn’t going to take long for Avengers: Endgame to ascend the charts of the highest-grossing movies of all time, and sure enough, Marvel superhero blockbuster is already the fifth biggest film in history after just a week of release.
On Wednesday, Endgame surpassed Furious 7 ($1.516 billion) and The Avengers ($1.519 billion) by pushing its gross to $1.664 billion, while a $50 million haul from China on Thursday propelled it past Jurassic World ($1.671 billion) to put it fifth in the all-time charts behind Infinity War ($2.048 billion), Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($2.068 billion), Titanic ($2.188 billion) and Avatar ($2.788 billion).
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When the dust settles on its second weekend, Endgame will surely have joined the $2 billion club, and could be sitting in third position, or perhaps even second, with only Avatar’s record-breaking haul to go. And, at this point, it’s starting to look inevitable that Avatar’s time at the top is running out…
Avengers: Endgame stars Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Captain America), Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Josh Brolin (Thanos), Brie Larson (Captain Marvel), Paul Rudd (Scott Lang), Don Cheadle (War Machine), Karen Gillan (Nebula), Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther), Tom Holland (Spider-Man), Sebastian Stan (Winter Soldier), Anthony Mackie (Falcon), Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet Witch), Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange), Danai Gurira (Okoye), Benedict Wong (Wong), Chris Pratt (Star-Lord), Zoe Saldana (Gamora), Dave Bautista (Drax), Bradley Cooper (Rocket), Vin Diesel (Groot), Karen Gillan (Nebula), Pom Klementieff (Mantis), Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Gwyneth Paltrow (Pepper Potts), Evangeline Lilly (The Wasp), Letitia Wright (Shuri) and Tessa Thompson (Valkyrie).
