'Avengers: Endgame' pulls a Thanos on box office records

Yesterday, on a Sunday AM, I drove to the Coral Ridge Mall, paid $6.36 at 7:15-ish AM at an automated kiosk to purchase a ticket for the 8 AM showing of "Avengers: Endgame" with ~30 others who were standing in line when the manager opened the gate to the theater.

I won't say another word about going because it feels like EVERY WORD leads to ANOTHER WORD with the potential to SPOIL the movie for someone. I stayed away from spoilers and that was a good decision.

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"Avengers: Endgame" shattered the record for biggest opening weekend with an estimated $350 million in ticket sales domestically and $1.2 billion globally, reaching a new pinnacle in the blockbuster era that the comic-book studio has come to dominate. Marvel's "Avengers" finale far exceeded even its own gargantuan expectations, according to studio estimates Sunday. The movie had been forecast to open between $260 million and $300 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters, but moviegoers turned out in such droves that "Endgame" blew past the previous record of $257.7 million, set last year by "Avengers: Infinity War" when it narrowly surpassed "The Force Awakens." "Endgame" was just as enormous overseas, obliterating the previous record of $640.5 million, also set by "Infinity War."

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