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There's a fantastic interview with End Game writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely on the latest episode of Smodcast. Well worth a listen.

So apparently this movie grossed more in its opening weekend than the cumulative gross for the entire DCEU?

So apparently this movie grossed more in its opening weekend than the cumulative gross for the entire DCEU?

No.

DCEU Domestic Total: $2,058.6MM
DCEU Worldwide Total: $5,272.1MM

Endgame is sitting at $2.260.2MM worldwide through Monday.

Maybe it was opening weekends' grosses, or perhaps I'm just bad at this.

Lol. Well let's take a look.

DCEU Opening Weekend Domestic: $734.8MM
DCEU Opening Weekend Worldwide: $1,704.4MM

Endgame made $357.12MM domestic and $1,223.65MM worldwide in it's opening weekend, so yes, still bad at it.

I do like this little factoid brought to the forefront of my memory by my painstaking research: Batman v Superman made $873.63MM worldwide; it's opening weekend accounted for 50.3% of it's total domestic gross and 47.2% of it's foreign gross. Combined the opening weekend attributed 48.4% of it's total gross. The movie was also in theaters for less than 90 days. What a **** disaster.

Hmpf

There's a fantastic interview with End Game writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely on the latest episode of Smodcast. Well worth a listen.

Just wanted to follow up on this now that I’ve listened to the entire interview. It’s over 2 hours long and gives a nice history of their careers then goes very in depth into writing choices of End Game including how they decided who was going to die, deleted scenes (both shot and cut at the script level), etc. It was a fascinating look at the process. Can’t recommend it enough.

Tom Holland has single-handedly reinvigorated my enthusiasm for Spider-man movies.

Also, Endgame:

Wilson was Cap for almost a decade in the books.

That action figure is awesome and nobody will tell me differently.

Wilson was Cap for almost a decade in the books.

Bucky was Cap too.

Found my new wallpaper. Spoilers if you haven't seen Endgame yet.

https://i.imgur.com/UyYcjIu.png

Also; Kevin Feige participated in an AMA on reddit yesterday. https://old.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/ ... eige_amaa/

Big highlight from that thread: he confirmed that the Ten Rings and the real Mandarin will be back at some point.

Found my new wallpaper. Spoilers if you haven't seen Endgame yet.

https://i.imgur.com/UyYcjIu.png

Is that a Watcher in the top right?

Endgame sitting $173.2MM behind Avatar for all time worldwide gross. Avatar was in theaters for 238 days whereas Endgame is only at 24, but with how quickly movies turnover in theaters now it seems like a longshot to eclipse Avatar's number. Extremely impressive nonetheless.

Disney has released three movies this year and is already at $4,085.7MM in worldwide box office gross; it takes the worldwide gross of the next 19 highest box office totals to eclipse that number. Of course, that total includes the $404.8MM earned by Alita, which now just goes into Disney's pockets as well. With Aladdin, Toy Story 4, The Lion King, Maleficent, Frozen 2, and Star Wars on the way the studio should easily eclipse the domestic ($3.092B in 2018) and international records ($7.605B in 2016) they have set.

These are fantastically, comically huge numbers to contemplate. I was 2 years old when Jaws became the first movie to gross $100 million at the boxoffice, and I was in college when True Lies became the first movie greenlit with a $100 million production budget. Now, those numbers are almost quaint. Solo took in nearly half a billion dollars and is considered a dud. wtf

The interesting thing about Endgame (to me at least, as nothing more than an observer) has been seeing the reaction fans are having to the various bits of fan service in the film. "I knew it!" and "Cap, on your left," "You can rest now," a single raised index finger, etc.... almost everyone I know says each of these moments truly pay off and feel earned. Waiting ten years and umpteen movies to have a key catchprase uttered on camera... it sounds like pretty top-shelf story telling, and sits in naked contrast to what everyone is saying about GoT, which has been a colossal bed-shitting.

It is getting me interested, as a diehard non-superhero enthusiast, in watching at least these last two Avengers movies just for experiencing those arcs.

Source of the post It is getting me interested, as a diehard non-superhero enthusiast, in watching at least these last two Avengers movies just for experiencing those arcs.

I keep telling you, start with Guardians Vol 1. These are fun scifi movies!

Stan Lee’s former business manager, Keya Morgan, was arrested in Arizona Saturday morning on an outstanding warrant from the Los Angeles Police Department.

The LAPD’s Mike Lopez confirmed that the arrest warrant was for the following charges: one count of false imprisonment – elder adult; three counts of grand theft from elder or dependent adult, special aggravated white collar crime loss of over $100k; and one count of elder or dependent adult abuse.

https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/stan- ... 203226049/

Enteepeesixtysix, that is super depressing.

Endgame is less than $45MM from passing Avatar, but is slowing down at the box office and Toy Story 4 is being added to the competition this weekend, so in the very near future Disney is going to re-release an extended edition with some deleted scenes added in for a last ditch effort to take the all time box office crown.

I'm good with that. Beating Avatar must happen.

If Endgame doesn’t beat it nothing ever will.