Box Office: 'Avengers: Endgame' Vs. 'Avatar' Is Too Close To Call    [ just 2000 crores behind]

Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame earned another $1.911 million (-4% from Wednesday) to end its fourth week with $781.337 million in North America alone. It’ll probably earn just over/under the $22.4 million earned by Infinity War over its Memorial Day Fri-Mon frame last year. That will be just enough to push it past $800 million and possibly past $803.5 million. That arbitrary milestone will put it past adjusted-for-inflation totals of Raiders of the Lost Ark ($797 million adjusted, counting the reissues), The Sting ($803.1 million adjusted) and The Lion King ($803.3 million, counting the 2011 3-D reissue) for 19th place on that list.

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Avengers Endgame vs Avatar: Here’s how much Marvel film needs to make to become number 1 of all time

After three weekends, Avengers: Endgame has emerged as the second highest grossing film of all time worldwide. The race will be extremely close, and here’s how much it needs to make to become number one.

Avengers Infinity War Updated: May 13, 2019 13:58 IST

HT Correspondent
Hindustan Times

Thanos in a still from Avengers: Infinity War, and Jake Sully from Avatar.

Avengers: Endgame is slowing down at the international box office, thanks to a front-loaded opening and the arrival of Pokemon Detective Pikachu. But it’s now within touching distance of usurping James Cameron’s Avatar’s crown as the highest grossing film of all time.
With an additional $165 million worldwide, the Marvel superhero epic is now just $302 million (Rs 2000 crore) behind Avatar, whose worldwide total stands at $2.7 billion. But Endgame registered a higher than expected drop at the US box office. Its 57% drop in the third weekend is bigger than Captain America: Civil War (54%) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (50%), according to Forbes, and Avengers: Infinity War (45%). It is now the third highest grossing film of all time domestically, trailing Star Wars: The Force Awakens (whose $900 million plus record it will not eclipse) and Avatar (which is just $37 million ahead).
Forbes predicts that the film will conclude its domestic run with around $850 million, even if it continues dropping on the higher side of expectations. Unadjusted for inflation, however, the film is at the number 24 spot in the US.