Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3048593-20180715232450/@comment-29908830-20190429064116

LoveWaffle wrote: The Friday numbers alone were enough to give it the 7th-highest opening weekend in the MCU, and had already surpassed the total worldwide gross of The Incredible Hulk.

$350 million domestic opening obviously gives it the highest opening weekend, but also makes it already the 9th-highest grossing film in the MCU. $1.2 billion already makes it the 6th-highest grossing worldwide.

I have a spreadsheet.

Adding on to that: a $1.2 billion take within a release week is not only the biggest worldwide debut for a film in history, but it completely obliterates the record for ANY PIECE OF MEDIA EVER (Red Dead Redemption 2's $725 million); by extension, it is the only one to surpass the billion dollar threshold in that timeframe, and the fastest film to gross a billion dollars (five days). Unfortunately, with predictions of $920 million, it is expected to fall just short of The Force Awakens' $936 million as the largest domestic gross in history (due in part to releasing at the beginning of summer), but should obliterate every other movie along the way, including Avatar and Black Panther. The international total (and thus worldwide total), meanwhile, remains a mystery, but seriously - if this doesn't beat Avatar worldwide, I don't know what will.