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Avengers Endgame India box office: First Hollywood film ever to enter ₹300 cr club, set to earn $2 bn worldwide
Avengers Endgame India box office stands at ₹346.31 crore in gross earnings even as the film heads to $2 billion earnings worldwide.
Avengers: Endgame has added another first to its list of achievements at the India box office. The film, which is on its way to earn $2 billion worldwide, has now grossed ₹346.31 crore in India, becoming the only Hollywood film to cross the ₹300 crore Rubicon.
“#AvengersEndgame remains the first choice of moviegoers... Biz took a slight dip on [second] Fri, but gathered speed on [second] Sat... Will cross ₹ 300 cr today [Sun]... [Week 2] Fri 12.50 cr, Sat 18 cr. Total: ₹ 290.90 cr Nett BOC. India biz. Gross BOC: ₹ 346.31 cr,” trade analyst Taran Adarsh reported, adding that the film will cross ₹300 crore in nett domestic earning on Sunday.
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“#AvengersEndgame is the first #Hollywood film to join ₹ 300 cr Club... Biz at a glance... Crossed ₹ 50 cr: Day 1 ₹ 100 cr: Day 2 ₹ 150 cr: Day 3 ₹ 200 cr: Day 5 ₹ 250 cr: Day 7 ₹ 300 cr: Will cross today [Sun; Day 10] Nett BOC. India biz,” he added. He also listed the films that are a member of the ₹300-crore club, “ ₹ 300 cr Club and its members... 2014: #PK 2015: #BajrangiBhaijaan 2016: #Sultan 2016: #Dangal 2017: #TigerZindaHai 2018: #Padmaavat 2018: #Sanju 2019: #AvengersEndgame NOTE: #Baahubali2 [#Hindi; 2017] is the ONLY film in ₹ 500 cr Club.”
Internationally, Avengers: Endgame has turned out to be a game-changer as it gallops its way to the $2 billion mark, raising the billion-dollar question whether it will surpass the $2.78 billion benchmark set by ‘Avatar’ a decade ago.
Adarsh earlier said the Marvel Cinematic Universe movie has shattered two myths: “Screen count and release period”. “Most Hindi biggies release in 3,500 screens, even 4,000 or 4,500+ at times, yet those movies don’t achieve the numbers that ‘Avengers: Endgame’ has amassed in just seven days on 2,845 screens,” he tweeted.
India is the fifth biggest international market for the film, with China leading with over $500 million, followed by the UK, Korea and Mexico, as per The Hollywood Reporter. It has left the Indian film industry to deliberate upon its own strategies.
Adarsh wrote: “’...Endgame’ is decimating previous records and setting new benchmarks. The audience is thirsting for well-made entertainers, but we rely more on packaging and marketing to do the trick... No wonder, our films misfire too often.”
According to Deadline, Avengers: Endgame has already minted $1.9 billion in worldwide receipts as it heads into the second week since its release, making it inevitable that it will zoom past the lifetime collection of Avengers: Infinity War ($2.05 billion) and Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($2.07 billion).
Even Titanic made $2.19 billion, but James Cameron’s Avatar, a tale set in the magical land of Pandora and about blue-skinned Na’vi people, is the big daddy. Not only is Avengers: Endgame a direct sequel to Avengers: Infinity War, it’s the culmination of the previous 20-plus titles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), a blockbuster series of films that commenced with ‘Iron Man’ in 2008.
The talk of the film crossing its threshold is intriguing, and complicated, reported The Washington Post. “The most obvious reason is inflation. Movie tickets cost a lot more now than they did in 2009 -- a full 20% more in the US alone. That means Avatar would have grossed some $150 million more here than its $760 million domestic total in today’s dollars, a number that actually puts the global total of Avatar near the $3 billion mark,” its report pointed out.
Also, Avatar was playing on fewer screens than Avengers: Endgame, China being a key case in point. It has minted $460 million of the ‘...Endgame’ box office, more than double the $204 million Avatar registered there, but that is also to do with the spurt in the number of theatres in the country in the last 10 years.
Directed by Joe Russo and Anthony Russo, the film has Hollywood biggies like Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo and Chris Hemsworth suiting up as the world’s favourite superheroes.
