Newcomers were no match for Disney and Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame.
The superhero film won the North American box office for a third-straight weekend with 63.05 million US dollars.
Avengers: Endgame has earned a massive 723.5 million dollars through Sunday in North America. Internationally the film took in 102.3 million dollars this weekend for a staggering global total through Sunday of 2.48 billion US dollars, according to studio figures collected by measurement firm Comscore.
China is the film’s top grossing international market.
The film has collected more than 4.1 billion yuan to date (around 600 million dollars) in the Chinese mainland, according to the major Chinese online ticketing service Maoyan.
It’s now the second biggest global release of all-time, just behind James Cameron’s 2009 sci-fi film Avatar, which brought in 2.8 billion dollars worldwide.
Directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, Avengers: Endgame is a film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers. It’s the 22nd installment of the Marvel Universe franchise and purported to be the last with this star lineup. (IANS)