{"id":916047,"date":"2026-10-04T17:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T17:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/916047\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T17:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T17:24:09","slug":"avengers-endgame-overtakes-avatar-as-highest-grossing-movie-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/916047\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Avengers: Endgame’ Overtakes ‘Avatar’ as Highest-Grossing Movie in History"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cAvengers: Endgame<\/a>\u201d is once again the highest-grossing movie in box office history, reclaiming the title from \u201cAvatar<\/a>.\u201d The two blockbusters have passed the crown back and forth over the years as they\u2019ve returned to theaters for various engagements.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith Disney\u2019s recent \u201cAvengers: Endgame\u201d theatrical re-release, the 2019 superhero epic has grossed $2.925 billion worldwide. That\u2019s just above 2009\u2019s \u201cAvatar,\u201d which has generated $2.923 billion globally after five re-releases.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAvatar\u201d spent a decade as the biggest release ever until \u201cAvengers: Endgame\u201d overtook the record in 2019 during its initial run on the big screen. \u201cEndgame\u201d dropped to No. 2 on all-time charts in 2021<\/a> when \u201cAvatar\u201d returned to theaters in advance of 2021\u2019s \u201cAvatar: The Way of Water.\u201d Five years later, and Earth\u2019s Mightiest Heroes have triumphed over the Na\u2019vi again.<\/p>\n

\n\tDisney is popping Champagne no matter which big-screen behemoth claims the No. 1 spot. \u201cAvatar\u201d was released by 20th Century Fox, which Disney now owns after the companies merged in 2019. With Fox\u2019s film assets, Disney is responsible for seven of the 10 highest grossing movies, including \u201c\u201dAvatar: The Way of Water\u201d ($2.33 billion), \u201cTitanic\u201d ($2.26 billion) and \u201cAvengers: Infinity War\u201d ($2.05 billion).<\/p>\n

\n\tDisney and Marvel<\/a> reissued \u201cAvengers: Endgame\u201d to generate excitement for \u201cAvengers: Doomsday,\u201d which debuts in December. \u201cAvengers: Endgame\u201d was notable as the culmination of 21 movies (many of them blockbusters in their own right) over 10 years and brought together just about every comic book star, from Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Captain America) and Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow) to Tom Holland (Spider-Man), Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther) and Anthony Mackie (Falcon). <\/p>\n

\n\tMarvel, after an uneven post-pandemic stretch, is reuniting nearly every superhero in the galaxy in \u201cDoomsday\u201d for the first time since \u201cEndgame.\u201d The re-release of \u201cEndgame\u201d has generated more than $126 million worldwide \u2014 and the turnout has theater owners buzzing for \u201cDoomsday,\u201d which is expected to be one of the year\u2019s biggest movies. Anthony and Joe Russo returned to direct \u201cAvengers: Doomsday,\u201d the 39th installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The MCU has long been the most commercially successful film franchise in history. After this summer\u2019s juggernaut \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day\u201d climbed to $2.5 billion and counting, the sprawling property has generated a combined $35.07 billion across all movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAvengers: Endgame\u201d is once again the highest-grossing movie in box office history, reclaiming the title from \u201cAvatar.\u201d The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,14709,151799,134,6860,344],"class_list":["post-916047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-avatar","tag-avengers-endgame","tag-entertainment","tag-marvel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}