Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3048593-20171206004220/@comment-29908830-20180429174146

KalKent wrote: Speaking of which, 'Infinity War' is expected to have an opening weekend of around $250 million, beating the biggest one 'Star Wars: Force Awakens' which had almost $248 million opening weekend. And after having been out for 5 days or so, it has already made around $630 million. I'm not even going to try and guess what the final numbers will end up being.

Holy shit, that worldwide opening is huge. For you sake, I'll go over the numbers for you and give semi-predictions on where it'll all end up.

Now to be clear, the domestic opening is only a rough estimate, and these things tend to round downwards. Therefore, there's a very real possibility that it won't beat The Force Awakens' domestic opening, though it will easily beat every single other movie ever released in 'Murica. As for where it will end up, I'd say it should be able to beat Black Panther, and maybe Avatar if we're lucky. However, it won't beat The Force Awakens in that regard, as not only did that film's total obliterate everything else, making over $170 million more than its nearest competition in Avatar, but that film didn't have to compete with a plethora of summer releases like Infinity War does. Additionally, while audiences absolutely adore Infinity War, critics are surprisingly less enthusiastic, or even polarized. While reviews shouldn't be able to hamper this movie too much given the context, this is one of only two Phase 3 movies (the other being Guardians Vol. 2, though that film has been better received with age) to have a RT score that isn't around 90% or higher, as well as a very middle-of-the-road 68 on Metacritic.

As for the international and worldwide totals, it unfortunately didn't beat The Fate of the Furious on the international side (F. Gary Gray, you TRAITOR!). But that worldwide debut still blows everything out of proportion, beating Fate of the Furious' worldwide debut by over $85 million, and unlike F8 Furious, doing so without the aid of China (as it won't premiere there until May 11th). There is a very real possibility that this movie could actually surpass The Force Awakens' total internationally, given that Star Wars didn't have nearly as much mass appeal back then in countries other than the US (I know, hard to believe). Worldwide, the film should easily be able to break $2 billion, becoming the first superhero movie and only the fourth movie ever to do so. It might even be able to get second place, thereby beating Titanic. But I'm still iffy on whether or not it can beat Avatar. Either way, at least Groot's happy I suppose.