Avatar slaps the Avengers even though it was released in 2009

Almost two weeks have passed since that Chinese cinemas decided to re-release a particular favorite at that audience, Avatar ‘s James Cameron . Within one weekend the Avatar project, predicted many that will succeed, true and exceeded the Avengers: Endgame for re-conquered from the throne of the most successful box office movie of all time , and with a significant difference in the harvest. This position was held by the Russo film from July 2019 when the one with a “sneaky” re-release managed to break the barrier that in its initial round in cinemas did not succeed – even for a few million. 

Now in the second week of screenings the gap grew even more between the first and second in the world box office of all time. According to Deadline, Avatar brought in another $ 14.1 million and has so far raised a total of $ 44 million, making the “slap” from faraway 2009 even louder. Therefore, the $ 2.833 billion James Cameron film is $ 36 million ahead of the gross of Joe and Anthony Russo, which closed the MCU’s first huge $ 2.797 billion saga. 

Estimates say that by the time this cycle of Chinese re-release is complete, it will have raised an additional $ 57 million, which is estimated to eventually reach $ 2.85 billion. It only remains to be seen where the ball will land. 

Although it was a 20th Century Fox movie when it was released in 2009 , times have changed and it has long been a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company, which later owns Marvel Studios . These two production companies now have in their pocket the first and the second most successful box office film. Once upon a time, the competition between two colossal production studios would have been more interesting, but now Disney seems to have eliminated any competition. Especially with the current data this achievement will take many years to be repeated.