Road to Avengers Endgame: Breaking down MCU’s $18 billion (Rs 1.2 lakh crore) box office, film by film

Ahead of Avengers: Endgame, here’s a film-by-film breakdown of how much money each film in the record breaking Marvel Cinematic Universe has made at the worldwide box office.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the world’s most successful film franchise. With over $18 billion in box office receipts - that’s more than the GDP of Zimbabwe and almost 10 times larger than that of Bhutan - the series will raise the bar with the upcoming Avengers: Endgame.

Chris Evans as Captain America in a poster for Avengers: Endgame.

Billed as the epic conclusion to more than 21 films’ worth of storytelling, spanning more than a decade, Endgame is projected to gross a billion dollars within the first week of release.

Marvel is currently bulletproof at the box office, with the recent Captain Marvel flying past the coveted $1 billion mark, joining the ranks of the three Avengers films, Captain America: Civil War, Iron Man 3 and Black Panther in the esteemed club of billion-dollar grossers in the MCU.

Before Endgame steamrolls into the record books, here’s a rundown of how each Marvel movie has performed at the box office.

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