When did Infinity War release?
April 26, 2018 (United Arab Emirates)
As mentioned before, there is no confirmed release date for a new Avengers movie and Marvel has enough on its plate right now. This is the current line-up for MCU movies over the next two years: May 7, 2021 – Black Widow.
Cutting the credits scenes was the right direction for Endgame. The post-credits sequences have always been problematic for directors who want to tell one complete, tonally coherent story and have to contend with Marvel mandating, effectively, an ad for the next movie on their docket.
Everyone assumed Natasha Romanoff, a.k.a Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), died in Avengers: Endgame. After a brief struggle with her fellow Avenger, Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), Natasha fell to her death to retrieve Soul Stone.
The 2019 superhero blockbuster, originally released globally in April, finally surpassed the global ticket sales of James Cameron's sci-fi film Avatar, which had held the record since 2009. All in all, Endgame has grossed $2.79 billion at the global box office, besting Avatar's total by only about $1 million.
In what is pretty clearly an attempt to beat 2009's Avatar as the movie with the biggest box office returns of all time, Marvel recently announced that it would rerelease Endgame in theaters on June 28, 2019, with special features: an added introduction from director Anthony Russo, a sneak peek of Spider-Man: Far From
Avengers: Endgame has no mid or post-credits scenes. For the first time since the MCU began churning out movies—21 in total before Endgame—a Marvel movie will end with no post-credits scenes (Update: This is no longer the case). That's probably a good thing.
Avatar also had a second theatrical release in 2010, less than a year after its initial theatrical release. Instead, Avatar's re-release came eight months after its theatrical debut, and over four months after its release on DVD and Blu-ray.
There is no traditional Marvel end-of-credits scene or teaser in Avengers: Endgame—but there is a little treat for patient fans who sat through the movie's very, very, very, long credits sequence. Disney has confirmed that the sound you hear is Tony Stark building his first makeshift Iron Man suit, in the M.C.U.
Avengers 5: The New AvengersBlack Panther, Spider-Man, Ant-Man, and Captain Marvel come to mind first. They're members of the old guard, so to speak, having already fought alongside the Avengers in Endgame, Infinity War, and Captain America: Civil War.
Avengers: Endgame overtakes Avatar as top box office movie of all time. Avatar's 10-year reign as the world's highest-grossing film has ended. On Sunday, Marvel's Avengers: Endgame crossed $2.7902bn (£2.23bn) at the box office, pushing it over the $2.7897bn earned by James Cameron's sci-fi epic.
Unlike many recent movies from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avengers: Endgame will never stream on Netflix. Instead, it will go straight to Disney's new streaming platform, Disney+, and stay there.
“Four forthcoming Avatar films, expanding the vibrant world of Pandora, will release on the pre-Christmas weekend every other year beginning in 2021,” Disney says. We're getting the sequel on December 17, 2021; Avatar 3 on December 22, 2023; Avatar 4 on December 19, 2025; and Avatar 5 on December 17, 2027.
'Avengers: Endgame' is now the highest-grossing film of all time, dethroning 'Avatar' “Avengers: Endgame” is now the highest-grossing film of all time. On Sunday, Disney said the film had earned $2.79 billion at the global box office, topping “Avatar's” record of $2.7897 billion.
Endgame, the culmination of a 22-movie arc started by Marvel in 2008, will officially surpass Avatar as the highest grossing movie of all time either today or tomorrow. There is an approximate $500,000 difference between Endgame and Avatar, which analysts predict will close within a day.
Top 5 highest-grossing movies ever*
- Avengers: Endgame (2019): $2,790,216,193.
- Avatar (2009): $2,789,705,275.
- Titanic (1997): $2,208,208,395.
- Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015): $2,053,311,220.
- Avengers: Infinity War (2018): $2,048,134,200.
