“Avengers: Endgame” returned to theaters and assembled a massive $86 million globally, including $26 million in North America and $60 million overseas.
Disney and Marvel reissued “Avengers: Endgame” to stoke excitement for “Avengers: Doomsday,” which opens in December. The upcoming comic book tentpole, which reunites just about every superhero on this planet (and others) and reintroduces Robert Downey Jr. not as Iron Man but as the villain Doctor Doom, is expected to be one of the biggest movies of the year. This re-release offered new footage as well as a chance to introduce viewers to the studio’s new take on premium large formats called “Infinity Vision.” It’s not a new technology but rather a “certification” that guarantees movie theaters will “meet rigorous technical standards,” per Disney. (As a note, “Avengers: Doomsday” won’t have access to Imax, the most ubiquitous of the PLFs, because “Dune: Part III” debuts on the same day and has the entire Imax footprint exclusively for three weeks.)
Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, “Avengers: Doomsday” will be the 39th installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s the most successful film franchise in history with $35.07 billion across all movies, a benchmark that was recently lifted by this summer’s juggernaut “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” with $2.2 billion.
“Avengers: Endgame Encore,” which the re-release has been dubbed, beat out several new releases to top domestic and global box office charts. Including this weekend’s grosses, “Endgame” strengthened its position as the third-largest North American release of all time with $884 million. Meanwhile, in a new milestone, “Avengers: Endgame” became the second movie ever to clear $2 billion at the international box office.
Earlier this week, Universal became the first to cross $5 billion worldwide in 2026, fueled by Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” with $1.75 billion and “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” with $1 billion.
