Seven years after becoming the second-highest grossing film ever, Avengers: Endgame returned to the No. 1 spot at the box office in a victory lap for Marvel and an appetizer for next month's opening of Avengers: Doomsday. The rerelease grossed $26 million over the weekend and another $60 million overseas, according to studio estimates Sunday. The film, which grossed $2.8 billion in 2019, was put back into theaters with several new end-credits scenes and an introductory thank-you to fans from Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans, the AP reports.
Among rereleases, only the 1997 release of Star Wars: A New Hope ($35.9 million) and the 2011 repeat of The Lion King ($30.2 million) have opened higher than Endgame in domestic cinemas. Hollywood has increasingly turned to rereleases to take advantage of holes in the release schedule. The Walt Disney Co. rerun, billed as Endgame: Encore, came out on top on an especially crowded weekend in theaters. Three well-reviewed new releases—A24's Primetime, with Robert Pattinson; Paramount Pictures' Heart of the Beast, with Brad Pitt; and Universal Pictures' Forgotten Island—opened. All helped theaters to a historically good September weekend. According to Rentrak, ticket sales were up 58.5% from the same weekend last year. The domestic box office has massed $7.8 billion thus far, putting it 19% ahead of last year.
With final domestic figures being released Monday, this list factors in the estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at US and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak:
- Avengers: Endgame: Encore, $26 million.
- Resident Evil, $23.3 million.
- Heart of the Beast, $20 million.
- Primetime, $19.2 million.
- Forgotten Island, $12.8 million.
- Practical Magic 2, $5.7 million.
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day, $4.1 million.
- The Odyssey, $3.7 million.
- Coyote vs. Acme, $1.9 million.
- Daniel and the Fiery Furnace, $1.5 million.
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