{"id":14985,"date":"2026-10-04T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=14985"},"modified":"2026-10-04T22:15:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T18:45:40","slug":"avengers-endgame-become-highest-grossing-movie-of-all-time-as-encore-re-release-topples-avatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/10\/04\/avengers-endgame-become-highest-grossing-movie-of-all-time-as-encore-re-release-topples-avatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Avengers: Endgame Become Highest-Grossing Movie Of All Time As Encore Re-Release Topples Avatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/avengers-endgame-become-highest-grossing-movie-of-all-time-as-encore-re-release-topples-avatar.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<hr class=\"preferredSourceCTA-module-scss-module__sCL6Nq__divider\" \/><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same. And now it&#8217;s here. Or should we say <em>Avengers: Endgame Encore<\/em> is, enabling Anthony and Joe Russo&#8217;s blockbuster 2019 Infinity Saga ender to beat James Cameron&#8217;s <em>Avatar<\/em> at the box office once again. Yes, in news that will surprise approximately nobody, Marvel Studios&#8217; strategically timed pre-<em>Avengers: Doomsday<\/em> <em>Endgame<\/em> re-release has built on its chart-topping $86 million opening last weekend and delivered another $40-odd million this week, bringing the movie&#8217;s lifetime haul to an eye watering $2.925 billion, squeezing past <em>Avatar<\/em>&#8216;s $2.923 billion to become the highest-grossing movie of all time once again.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>As we recapped last week, James Cameron&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Avatar<\/em>&nbsp;became&nbsp;the highest-grossing movie of all-time back in 2009 as the self-proclaimed king of the world delivered a sci-fi epic that sung to the tune of a whopping $2.78 billion globally during its phenomenal theatrical run. Then, a decade later, The Russo Brothers&#8217;&nbsp;<em>Endgame<\/em>&nbsp;took the Na&#8217;vi Nation&#8217;s title with a super $2.81 billion showing at the box office. Never one to be beaten easily, Cameron&#8217;s sci-fi smash flexed its blue muscle at the Chinese box office with a cheeky re-release in 2021 to&nbsp;reclaim the top spot once more. And now, by a margin of a mere $20 million (well, mere in Disney money terms), <em>Endgame<\/em> has usurped ol&#8217; JC (James Cameron, <em>not<\/em> the other guy) to reclaim the blockbuster throne and no doubt generate some healthy additional <em>Doomsday<\/em> buzz.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>Despite <em>Endgame<\/em>&#8216;s big box office showing earning this week&#8217;s ticket sale headlines, however, not all of this week&#8217;s releases have shared the same level of success \u2014 not by a long chalk. The imminent completion of Warner Bros.&#8217; merger with Paramount was marked this weekend with the release of <em>Digger<\/em>, which will almost definitely now be the last cinematic release by Warner Bros. as its own studio. Unfortunately, despite having Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu at the helm, a timely climate change story to tell, and a starry cast headed up by a never-better Tom Cruise, <em>Digger<\/em> seems to have dug itself a bit of a hole with cinemagoers, opening to a paltry $8 million domestically and $20 million globally against a reported budget of $160-180 million. Suffice it to say that, barring a minor miracle, Digger Rockwell will <em>not<\/em> return in the box-office chart top spots. But who knows, at this rate maybe he <em>will<\/em> return in <em>Avengers: Doomsday<\/em>. That&#8217;d certainly be one way to get Digg to No. 1!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same. And now it&#8217;s here. Or should we say Avengers: Endgame Encore is, enabling Anthony and Joe Russo&#8217;s blockbuster 2019 Infinity Saga ender to beat James Cameron&#8217;s Avatar at the box office once again. Yes, in news that will surprise approximately nobody, Marvel Studios&#8217; strategically timed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-14985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-47","tag-destiny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14987,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14985\/revisions\/14987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}