Avengers: Endgame presales in China have skyrocketed to record heights within the first few hours. According to Maoyan Box Office System, Endgame sold over 1 million tickets in the first six hours after they went on sale Friday local time. This is a record for all movies in the Middle Kingdom; not even a Chinese New Year title has crossed the 1M admission level in the same amount of time.
What’s more, Endgame topped the first 24 hours of Avengers: Infinity War within just the first hour of presales. In its first three hours, the latest Disney/Marvel superhero epic overtook the first seven days of presales on Infinity War.
Infinity War holds the all-time presales record of $65M, including $8.9M from its midnights, though it is the record holder even without those. Last year, IW tickets went on sale 21 days and seven hours prior to release, whereas Endgame will have 11 days and 12 hours of presales.
Some of the figures above do not include Wanda cinemas, whose system put Endgame tickets on sale six hours after other platforms.
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As of 9 p.m. Friday Beijing time, Endgame had sold RMB 88M ($13.12M) worth of tickets. It crossed RMB 100M in 10 hours.
Estimates on the ground in China expect Endgame to do at least $75M in presales — some see $100M, we’re hearing — which would set a record. However, numbers this wild this early are unprecedented.
Endgame opens April 24 in China, two days ahead of domestic, giving it a five-day launch weekend — though Sunday, April 28, is a working day ahead of an extended holiday the following week.
Infinity War opened to $199.3M in China (unadjusted), two weeks after the domestic bow and a large swath of the rest of international. As we’ve previously reported, with China going day-and-date on Endgame, the global launch is eyeing well above $800M.
dropping like a stone in second weekend
I wonder if it has the legs to top avatar’s record
With China in the count, I think it’s quite feasible
Is 1B worldwide opening weekend possible?
It is.
But it will get really hard.
$900+ million is more likely.
1b does seem like too big of a number but aim high.
Highly, highly unlikely. Now, never say never, but just take a look at the factors. Simply the number of times the movie can be seen per theater limits the number of screenings possible. On the domestic level – Infinity War made $257.6 million. Endgame, could very possibly beat that and make $300 million. Worldwide (including domestic) – Infinity War made $640.9 million. I’d say $750 million for Endgame is the best bet. But then again – who knows?! I do think it’s interesting to see because of the hype to this movie.
750M opening, ha! They would have probably hit that mark without China. This is going to be between 950-1B. They hit essentially $841M with china included in IW. They’d need ~19% higher ticket sales to hit a billion. It’s very possible.
Did you even read article?? $199m open in China was 2 weeks later for IW.. Anyways, $900-$1b WW debuts is very likely..
That’s $641m without China. Add in China and it’s $841m.
Umm… 640 without china :/
50/50 it’s possible but $925M worldwide opening is a safe bet
It ended up topping it as you all probably already know. It just did over $1Billion on opening weekend, wow!