Avengers: Infinity War estimated to break global opening weekend record

He’s the first Marvel villain with depth and Infinity War is as much about its cast of heroes as it is Thanos’s personal conflict. After collecting over Rs 30 crore on Friday and Saturday, the film showed a good jump on Sunday and raked in Rs 32.50 crore yesterday. Almost all of the highest-grossing superhero films opened in May, June, or July.

As in North America, Infinity War set a slew of industry records overseas, including staking out the second-best global opening all time.

It is to be noted that Baaghi 2 opened in 3,500 screens, nearly twice as many as Avengers got.

Joe and Anthony Russo directed from a script by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. And we get some insane pairings here.Avengers: Infinity War feels like a really special event. As expected, Infinity War took the wind of out Rampage overseas, where Rampage earned $16.2 million for a foreign total of $256.7 million and $334.6 million globally.

Many film websites and blogs put odds on which characters will not make it with Loki, played by Tom Hiddleston, coming out on top in many. Avengers: Infinity War combines the past decade of 18 movies in the Marvel cinematic universe into one film. This movie, and really – the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole, should have never worked.

Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), perhaps because he was the star of the previous instalment, has to be content with a smattering of lines but at least the big finale takes place in his kingdom of Wakanda. It was the biggest opening day for a film in South Korea, Brazil, Hong Kong and the Philippines. Apart from English, the film is released in the dubbed versions of Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. As many as 35 films were on the back burner and the loss is pegged at close to ‘120 crore. Check out the April 27-29 figures below. “This is bigger than even what “Baahubali” was”.

We don’t think so, and that’s what we’ll be chatting about in more detail.

Rajendra Jyala, CSO of Inox Cinemas, attributed part of the success to the long weekend.

Infinity War also has an “A” Cinemascore, and word-of-mouth tracking comes in at 83% recommending the movie, which is better than Civil War’s 75%.

And, of course, there are the Guardians to provide the bulk of the laughs, whether it’s the tough-talking Rocket the Racoon (voice of Bradley Cooper) or plant creature Groot (voice of Vin Diesel), now a sullen teenager who still can only say “I am Groot” in different intonations.