As was expected, Marvel’s early summer blockbusterAvengers: Infinity Wareasily won at the box office for its third weekend in a row, taking in $61.8 million. This weekend’s tally helped push it past the $500 million mark with a current domestic total of $547.8 million. The movie passed the $500 million plateau after just 15 days in release, the second fastest movie of all time to hit that mark, behindStar Wars: The Force Awakens, which took just 10 days to reachhalf a billion dollarsat thebox office.
Avengers: Infinity Waralso passed another milestone internationally, reaching the $1 billion foreign plateau, on the strength of a massive $200 million opening weekend in China.Avengers: Infinity Warcurrently has $1.059 billion from foreign markets, which, when combined with the $547.8 million domestic haul puts its global total at $1.606 billion, the fifth highest grossing movie of all time, surpassing the global tally of 2012’sThe Avengers($1.518 billion). It now followsJurassic World($1.617 billion),Star Wars: The Force Awakens($2.068 billion),Titanic($2.187 billion) andAvatar($2.788 billion) on the all time charts.
Year-to-date, it has also easily surpassedBlack Panther’s worldwide box office total of $1.341 billionto become the highest-grossing movie of the year worldwide, but it still has some work to do to surpassBlack Panther’s top domestic mark of $696.1 million. On the all-time charts,Avengers: Infinity Warwill easily passJurassic Worldto take fourth place all time, and with this huge opening in China, it makes a global total of $2 billion seem increasingly likely. Still, while it very well may hit $2 billion, whether or not it surpasses any of the other top 3 movies on the all time global charts remains to be seen.
Avengers: Infinity Warwent up against two new movies in wide release, both of which hadno chance of topping Avengers: Infinity War, but still fared quite well, considering what they were going up against. New Line Cinema’s comedyLife of the Party, starring Melissa McCarthy, debuted in second place taking $18.5 million, earning a decent $5,060 per-screen average from 3,656 theaters. Universal’s thrillerBreaking In, starring Gabrielle Union, took third place with $16.5 million, with a healthy $6,504 per-screen average from 2,537 theaters. Neither new release was a hit with critics, though, withLife of the Partyearning a 41% Rotten Tomatoes score andBreaking Ingetting a 27% RT score.
The top 10 is rounded out by holdoversOverboard($10.1 million),A Quiet Place($6.4 million),I Feel Pretty($3.7 million),Rampage($3.3 million),Tully($2.2 million),Black Panther($1.9 million) andRBG$1.1 million. This weekend also marks the 13th frame in a row whereBlack Pantherhas crossed the top 10, and if it does so next weekend, it will be the first movie to crack the top 10 in 14 consecutive weekends sinceAvatar. That may not be possible, though, with three new movies hitting theaters, including the highly-anticipated R-rated superhero sequelDeadpool 2, along with Global Road’sShow Dogsand Paramount’sBook Club. Take a look at the top 10 estimates below, courtesy ofBox Office Mojo, and check back on Tuesday for next weekend’s predictions.
Avengers: Infinity War$61.8 million
Life of the Party$18.5 million
Breaking In$16.5 million
Overboard$10.1 million
A Quiet Place$6.4 million
I Feel Pretty$3.7 million
Rampage$3.3 million
Tully$2.2 million
Black Panther$1.9 million
RBG$1.1 million