Avengers: Endgame Encore Retakes the Box Office Crown as Primetime
Summary
Marvel's seven-years-later re-release won the weekend with $26M, while four new and holdover films each topped $10 million domestic for the first time all year
Disney's Avengers: Endgame Encore topped the weekend box office with an estimated $26 million domestic from 3,060 theaters, the third-biggest re-release opening ever behind only 1997's Star Wars Special Edition and 2011's The Lion King 3D, according to Rotten Tomatoes' box office desk and Variety. The film, which added four new post-credits scenes teasing December's Avengers: Doomsday, pushed Endgame's worldwide total to $2.885 billion, second all-time behind Avatar. Resident Evil held second place, falling 61 percent to $23.3 million in its second weekend and crossing $100 million domestic at $103.4 million. Paramount's Brad Pitt survival thriller Heart of the Beast opened third with $20 million domestic on an A- CinemaScore and a $50.1 million worldwide start, ahead of A24's Primetime, which opened fourth with $19.2 million. DreamWorks' animated Forgotten Island debuted fifth with $12.8 million. It marked the first weekend of the year with five films each grossing over $10 million domestically.