‘Avengers: Endgame’ has made box office history by taking a record-breaking $1.2bn (£929m) in global ticket sales in its opening run.
The Disney blockbuster has become the fastest film ever to break the $1bn barrier, doing so in just five days.
Endgame is the 22nd offering in the Marvel Studios superhero franchise.
Its opening takings smashed the previous global debut record of $640m set by last year’s ‘Avengers: Infinity War’.
In the US alone, Endgame brought in a record $350m.
It also drew huge audiences in China, where it made a record $330.5m after opening there on Wednesday, ahead of North America.
Marvel Studios now holds the top two global openings of all time (Avengers: Endgame and Avengers: Infinity War), as well as six of the top 10 domestic debuts and two of the top three international. Avengers: Endgame is the 22nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), an unprecedented collection of interconnected films, all of which have opened No. 1 domestically.
Globally, the films have grossed a collective $19.9 billion to date, with the four Avengers films—The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame—accounting for nearly $6.2 billion.
Four of the MCU films currently rank among the top 10 global releases of all time: Avengers: Infinity War (No. 4, $2.05 billion), The Avengers (No. 6, $1.52 billion), Avengers: Age of Ultron (No. 8, $1.4 billion), and Black Panther (No. 9, $1.3 billion).
All 22 have been highly rated by critics and audiences, with Fresh RottenTomatoes aggregate scores across the board, including nine over 90 percent, and 21 out of 22 earning CinemaScores in the A-range.
