{"id":613810,"date":"2026-09-28T00:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T00:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/613810\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T00:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T00:12:12","slug":"avengers-endgame-encore-scores-86-million-opening-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/613810\/","title":{"rendered":"Avengers: Endgame Encore Scores $86 Million Opening Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2009, James Cameron’s Avatar<\/a> became the highest-grossing movie of all-time<\/a> with a whopping $2.78 billion box office haul. In 2019, The Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Endgame<\/a> took the Na’vi Nation’s title with a super $2.81 billion global haul. Then, in 2021, a cheeky Avatar re-release saw Cameron’s sci-fi smash reclaim the top spot<\/a>, with its lifetime total now sitting at an eye-watering $2.92 billion. Now, in the latest round of the battle between cinema’s biggest A-named blockbusters, Avengers: Endgame Encore has just assembled itself an impressive $86 million worldwide opening weekend, reopening the race for that coveted all-time No. 1 spot.<\/p>\n

Per Variety<\/a>‘s reporting, Endgame Encore \u2014 which comes boasting four tantalising new scenes<\/a> that help tee up the Russos’ forthcoming Avengers: Doomsday<\/a> \u2014 took $26 million in North America and $60 million overseas as fans flocked to their nearest IMAX\/Infinity Vision equipped multiplex to relive the end of the Infinity Saga and usher in the beginning of the end of the Multiverse Saga. As a result, the MCU blockbuster’s current overall box office cume to date has now bumped up to $2.88 billion, placing it just $39 million behind Jake Sully’s first Pandoran adventure.<\/p>\n

With Endgame Encore largely serving as an appetiser for the MCU’s main 2026 cinematic event, Avengers: Doomsday (now releaseing on December 16 in the UK), there’s every chance that Marvel Studios’ well-timed re-release will see Endgame take the all-time box office record once more before its run is through. But after Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/a>‘s wild $2.48 billion box office run this summer, the big question is surely whether Doomsday can mount a serious challenge for No. 1 itself. As we come to the final stretch of Hollywood’s best year since records began, with the MCU finally back back<\/a>, all bets are off. Who knows? The first ever $3 billion movie might be mere weeks away… watch this space!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2009, James Cameron’s Avatar became the highest-grossing movie of all-time with a whopping $2.78 billion box office…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-613810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}