‘Avengers: Endgame Encore’ Scores Massive $86 Million Globally, Brad Pitt’s ‘Heart of the Beast’ Launches to $50 Million Worldwide — SkimNews
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- Avengers: Endgame Encore opened to $86 million globally ($26M domestic, $60M overseas), pushing its cumulative total to $2.88 billion — now just $39M behind Avatar's $2.9B all-time worldwide record.
- Endgame became only the second film ever to clear $2 billion internationally and strengthened its position as the third-largest North American release of all time at $884M domestic.
- Disney and Marvel used the re-release to debut 'Infinity Vision,' a new premium large-format certification guaranteeing theaters meet rigorous technical standards, plus offer an early look at the December tentpole Avengers: Doomsday.
- Avengers: Doomsday (December 2026) won't have access to Imax because Dune: Part III debuts the same day and holds the entire Imax footprint exclusively for three weeks.
- The Heart of the Beast, Brad Pitt's Paramount wilderness thriller directed by David Ayer, opened to $50.1M globally ($30.1M international, $20M domestic) on an $82M budget, earning an 87% Rotten Tomatoes score and A- CinemaScore.
- Universal and DreamWorks Animation's Forgotten Island opened to just $20.6M globally ($12.8M domestic, $7.8M from 34 international markets) on an $80M production budget, with several key territories still to come.
- Universal became the first studio to cross $5 billion worldwide in 2026, driven by Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey ($1.75B) and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie ($1B).
Why it matters: Marvel used the $86M Endgame re-release to hype December's Doomsday, but that tentpole won't access Imax screens for three weeks because Dune: Part III locked the footprint. That's a concrete ceiling on a movie positioned for one of the biggest opening weekends of all time, since the re-release's stated purpose was Doomsday marketing.
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