Pokémon Detective Pikachuused “debut two three afterAvengers: Endgame, gaining a comfortable distance from the biggest Marvel movie of all time.” It wasn’t very effective!Endgame’s time at the number 2 position lasted exactly one (1) Friday night, as the MCU film won out its third weekend with $63 million. This number pushesEndgameto $723 million domestically, passingAvengers: Infinity War($678 million) andBlack Panther($700 million) to become the third-highest domestic earner of all time. Before its run is over, it will more than likely also overtakeAvatar’s $760 million domestic, but there’s still a long ways to go to top all-timerStar Wars: The Force Awakensat $936 million.
Worldwide,Endgamenow sits at a mighty $2.48 billion as it eyes downAvatar’s record-setting $2.78 billion.
Funny enough,Detective Pikachu’s solid $58 million debut was also a record-breaker. DirectorRob Letterman’s Pokémon film scored the highest opening for a video game adaptation, surpassing the $47 million premiere from 2001’sLara Croft: Tomb Raider.Detective Pikachu’s opening numbers are right on line with expectations, just abitof a disappointment for a film that had the potential to break out huge from predictions, like the 2014 Godzilla’s $93 million opening weekend. No huge bother, though.Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verseopened right on its expected line and just kept on chugging to success over the following weeks.
Rounding out the top 3 isThe Hustle, which met expectations with $13 million. Fellow newcomerPomslanded just outside the top 5 in sixth place with a disappointing $5.1 million; it’s more tough news for STX Entertainment, whoseUglyDollspremiered to a soft $8 million just last weekend. And then there’sTolkien, the J.R.R. Tolkien biopic starringNicholas Houltas theLord of the Ringsmastermind, which just snuck into the top ten with its $2.1 million debut.
Check out the weekend’s top 10 estimates below, and be back here next week to see ifJohn Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellumhas a headshot saved forEndgame.
Avengers: Endgame
$63,054,000
$723,499,739
Pokemon Detective Pikachu
$58,000,000
The Hustle
$13,536,298
The Intruder
$6,600,000
$20,975,126
$6,125,000
$19,736,935
$5,110,000
$3,920,000
$14,272,796
Breakthrough
$2,466,000
$37,106,806
$2,153,000
Captain Marvel
$1,813,000
$423,777,079
