Not only has Disney/Marvel's Avengers: Endgame come out on top of the weekend box office race, but it broke more than a dozen box office records while doing so.
The final chapter in the Avengers saga blew past the previous weekend record of $257.7 million which was set by its predecessor Avengers: Infinity War to finish with an estimated $350 million in domestic ticket sales. When all overseas receipts are added up the film is expected to be around $1.2 billion.
Here are some of the other records set by the superhero tentpole: Biggest worldwide opening; fastest to reach $1 billion worldwide; top North American opening; top daily totals; top China opening; biggest international opening; highest opening weekend in 44 markets; biggest domestic weekend total; top market share; Imax record; biggest 3D sale; widest North American release
The success of Endgame had a somewhat unexpected offshoot effect by boosting another Marvel entry. The female-led Captain Marvel saw a considerable uptick in ticket sales which bumped the pic from the fourth place slot last week to number two this week. That film pulled in an additional $8 million to bring its eight week total to $413 million. {googleads}
Last week's number one film The Curse of La Llorona dropped two slots to finish in third place with a $7.5 million take while the Christian drama film Breakthrough brought in $6.3 million to finish in fourth.
The top five were rounded out by DC's Shazam! which managed another $5.5 million at this weekend's box office.
The Regina Hall-led fantasy/comedy film called Little continued to perform well with a $3.4 million take in the sixth slot while the Disney's live-action Dumbo remake was close behind with $3.2 million
Paramount's Stephen King remake Pet Sematary dropped one slot to come in eighth place by bringing in just over $1.2 million, followed by Jordan Peele's horror film Us which added another $1.1 million to its $172 million domestic total.
The top ten were rounded out by the Disneynature film Penguins which moved up two slots from last week with slightly more than $1 million in its second week.
Here are the weekend Box Office Results for April 26 - 28, 2019:
| Title | Weekend | Total | Last Week |
| 1. Avengers: Endgame |
$350,000,000 | $350,000,000 | N |
| 2. Captain Marvel |
$8,000,000 | $413,500,000 | 4 |
| 3: The Curse of La Llorona |
$7,500,000 | $41,200,000 | 1 |
| 4. Breakthrough |
$6,300,000 | $26,100,000 | 3 |
| 5. Shazam! |
$5,500,000 | $131,100,000 | 2 |
| 6. Little |
$3,400,000 | $35,800,000 | 5 |
| 7. Dumbo |
$3,200,000 | $107,000,000 | 6 |
| 8. Pet Sematary |
$1,200,000 | $52,600,000 | 7 |
| 9. Us |
$1,100,000 | $172,800,000 | 8 |
| 10. Penguins |
$1,000,000 | $5,700,000 | 12 |
