As of yesterday, Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War has passed the $2 billion mark at the global box office. The weekend totals were a bit higher than estimated, giving the MCU flick a $1.999.471b cume as of Sunday. It earned another $921,000 on Monday (-21% from last Monday), which is more than enough to get it over the finish line. It has done the job in 48 days of release. It took one day longer than Avatar and six fewer days than Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It did it around 14 years faster than Titanic, but I digress.
Speaking of domestic play, it (barely) fell below $1 million per day for the first time on Monday, giving it the same number of consecutive $1m+ days as (offhand), Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Spider-Man and Jurassic World. Wonder Woman dropped on day 47, while Black Panther, The Avengers and Frozen dropped on day 53. Jurassic Park and Shrek held out for 55 days before dipping below $1m while Phantom Menace (61 days), Avatar (81 days) and Titanic (102 days) are the record holders on that count.
The film has earned around $656 million in North America, meaning it'll probably pass Titanic ($659m) in unadjusted domestic earnings on Friday or Saturday. Avengers: Infinity War, which was sold as the end of the line but was actually the penultimate episode (Ant-Man and the Wasp and Captain Marvel are technically prequels to the events of Infinity War), has become the fourth movie to earn more than $2 billion in global grosses. That's not adjusted for any kind of inflation, but it's the biggest superhero movie ever even with inflation and overseas expansion taken into account.
It has earned a 33/67 domestic/overseas split and over $353 million in China, the third-biggest Hollywood export behind Furious 7 ($392m in 2015) and Fate of the Furious ($392m in 2017). Once it gets past Titanic in North America, it'll be the fourth-biggest domestic grosser, sans inflation, behind Black Panther ($699m), Avatar ($760m in 2009/2010) and Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($937m in 2015/2016). If you want to note inflation, the film will likely end its run in 34th place, between Sleeping Beauty ($51.6m including reissues/$665.7m adjusted) and The Jungle Book ($141.8m including reissues/$674.9m adjusted).
With around $1.344 billion overseas, it has made about as much overseas as The Last Jedi ($1.332b) and Black Panther ($1.345b) have earned in total. That overseas figure is third on the list for biggest foreign grosses, behind Titanic ($1.528b, counting the 2012 reissue) and Avatar ($2.07b). And its current $2b global cume is below only Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($2.068b), Titanic ($2.187b) and Avatar ($2.787b). The month-long extension in China may help Infinity War become the biggest movie ever that wasn't directed by James Cameron and wasn't released on Dec. 18 or Dec. 19 in North America.
But it certainly doesn't need to top Force Awakens to be an unqualified mega-hit. For that matter, Avengers 4, which (as of now) opens on May 4, 2019, in North America, need not approach Infinity War numbers in order to be a hit. And after that, well, this may be as big as it gets for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But that's a conversation for another day.
So happy to be wrong. Get that 2B, Infinity War! (Get Titanic too while you're at it)
