{"id":9107,"date":"2019-04-29T10:44:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T06:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=9107"},"modified":"2019-04-29T10:44:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T06:44:10","slug":"avengers-endgame-shatters-records-with-1-2-billion-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/04\/29\/avengers-endgame-shatters-records-with-1-2-billion-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Avengers: Endgame’ shatters records with $1.2 billion opening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Avengers<\/a>\u00a0assembled the biggest box office in film history, far surpassing multiple records on the books.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Endgame” made an estimated $1.2 billion at the worldwide box office for its opening, according to\u00a0Disney\u00a0(DIS<\/span>). It is the only film in history to cross the $1 billion mark for its debut.<\/div>\n
It broke the previous record by hundreds of millions of dollars. Its prequel “Avengers: Infinity War” formerly held the record making $640 million for its opening last year.<\/div>\n
The film, which started rolling out internationally on Wednesday, took just 5 days to cross $1 billion.<\/div>\n
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“Endgame” also shattered the opening record in North America. The film, which stars Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, brought in an estimated $350\u00a0<\/strong>million domestically this weekend. That makes it the biggest opening weekend ever, blowing away the previous domestic record of $258 million that “Infinity War<\/a>” made.<\/div>\n
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The Marvel film somehow exceeded its own huge expectations. Analysts predicted last week that the film could make anywhere from\u00a0$260 million to $300 million<\/a>\u00a0domestically.<\/div>\n
The film grossed an estimated $859 million overseas. That crushes the record for the biggest opening weekend internationally, which was held by 2017’s “The Fate of the Furious.”<\/div>\n
The film’s global domination was propelled by China. “Endgame” made $330.5 million there, which is the highest-grossing debut ever in China.<\/div>\n
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CNN<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Avengers\u00a0assembled the biggest box office in film history, far surpassing multiple records on the books. Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Endgame” made an estimated $1.2 billion at the worldwide box office for its opening, according to\u00a0Disney\u00a0(DIS). It is the only film in history to cross the $1 billion mark for its debut. It broke the previous …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9109,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9107\/revisions\/9109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}