Except that guy who flogged all the Marvel licences years ago and now they're trying to Hoover them back up.
I imagine he's a social pariah at the office Christmas party.
One more night later and Avengers: Infinity War has pipped up to $1.226bn meaning overnight it overtook the lifetime earnings of Iron Man 3 to become the fourth highest grossing MCU movie. The gap is wider till it overtakes the third place movie, Black Panther, but at current pace it should do so sometime around the end of this weekend.
Avengers: Infinity War is up to $1.251bn. Estimates for the coming weekend suggest it could earn another $60m+ which would push it into the all-time top ten earning films and within a whisker of Black Panthers final earning total.
However, an important event also happens this weekend, the films final major international release which this time is China. The film is expected to open huge there and could bring in an additional $100m just from that opening. As quickly as you snap your fingers, by Monday the film could pass by the $1.4bn total and in doing so leapfrog past Ultron to become the second highest grossing MCU movie and also the seventh highest grossing movie of all time in its third weekend.
Final adjusted tally for Avengers: Infinity War is now $1.606bn, the film is now the fifth highest grossing movie of all time and is mere days at the most from overtaking Jurassic World. Once it does that it will be the highest grossing movie not to breach the fabled $2bn club with Force Awakens the next on its hit list. It's Chinese opening was the second highest there of all time slapping a wodge of $200m to the total. In three days the Chinese takings for Infinity War passed the lifetime earnings there for Captain America: Civil War, Iron Man 3 and The Avengers.
Melissa McCarthy's new movie Life of the Party opened to a total of $21.4m, well onto the lower end of the scale for expectations and one of her weaker performances.
I feel like a lot of countries earnings at tracking currently meaning we won't see the next big uplift till after the weekend but Avengers: Infinity War is currently listed as being up to $1.665bn which places it a mere $6m behind the lifetime earnings of Jurassic World and becoming the fourth highest grossing movie of all time.
And it's official, Avengers: Infinity War is now officially the fourth highest grossing movie of all time. It now needs $382m to enter the $2bn Club and to overtake Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Deadpool 2 strode in strong to a worldwide launch of $301m, just shy of the originals takings giving a good indicator that the film is big but may not have grown the audience. That may be something that affects the bottom line given the strong competition this entry faces but also shows little in the way of a threat to the series continuation as the films budget is reportedly $110m so it's likely an easy money maker.
Avengers: Infinity War did suffer some drag but still managed to dust some of its rivals taking its overall earnings up to $1.813bn. Passing the $2bn mark seems inevitable now.
Little movement elsewhere thanks to these to big hitters and things get even more tight at cinemas this week with the release of Solo: A Star Wars Story
Star Wars has its first box office misfire with Solo: A Star Wars Story. The international takings from the bumper weekend only managed to drag themselves up to $168m which is nothing short of a disaster for the $300m budgeted spin-off. The film massively missed its projections with even its wide international markets opting to largely ignore the movie. The film opened in every single market except Japan which shows the scale of the underperformance and that no future releases are available to buck the trend. Domestically it opened to just 54% of what Rogue One managed.
Avengers: Infinity War continued to hold a decent pace though is now slowing down with the number of other films on the market. It now sits at $1.909bn so is pretty much now just riding it out to try and reach the $2bn mark.
Deadpool 2 fell hard in its second weekend but still made enough that it almost outgrossed Solo in many markets. The sequel now sits at $499m worldwide after its second weekend.
The cinema is now quiet for the next fortnight allowing us to see which of the above three films audiences are most interested in catching up with, then all three may get booted off the screen for the next potential juggernaut - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
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