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'Avengers: Endgame' continues to break box office records in its second weekend as it crosses $2 billion worldwide

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"Avengers: Endgame." Marvel Studios
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In its second weekend "Avengers: Endgame" easily pushed away new releases "Long Shot," "The Intruder," and "UglyDolls," to win the domestic box office for a second consecutive week.

Disney's huge moneymaker brought in an estimated $145.8 million, knocking off "Avengers: Infinity War" ($114.7 million) to become the second best performance for a movie in its second weekend in theaters ("Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is still king of second weekend with $149.2 million). The movie's domestic total is now at $619.7 million, making it the ninth-highest grossing all-time in North America.

Globally, the movie has now crossed the $2 billion mark with $2.188 billion, the fastest movie ever to accomplish the feat. Its international cume is at an astounding $1.6 billion. "Endgame" has accomplished all of this in just 11 days in theaters worldwide (it took "Avatar" 47 days to become the fastest to $2 billion).

The movie is now the second highest-grossing movie of all time globally.

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Friday, "Endgame" had another $100 million globally, taking in $40.6 million domestically and $88.2 million internationally for a $128.8 global day. On Saturday, domestically the movie took in $61.4 million. And on the 3D front, tomorrow the movie will be the third in history to generate over $1 billion worldwide in just 3D ticket sales ("Force Awakens" and "Avatar"). 45% of "Endgame" ticket sales are from 3D.

The movie's sights are now set on taking down the all-time box office leaders: domestically it's "The Force Awakens" with $936.6 million and worldwide it's "Avatar" with $2.8 billion (not counting inflation for either).

Meanwhile, Sony's "The Intruder" took in $11 million to land a distance second place at the domestic box office. In third was Lionsgate's Seth Rogen/Charlize Theron comedy "Long Shot" with $10 million, and STX's animated "UglyDolls" came in fourth with $8.5 million.

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Jason Guerrasio
Jason Guerrasio
Jason Guerrasio is an award-winning entertainment correspondent at Business Insider and has covered various aspects of the film industry for over two decades. On the site, his reporting can range from what's going on behind the scenes at some of the biggest companies in Hollywood, colorful interviews with some of the most well-known names in entertainment, and exploring the darker side of the industry.In 2020, Jason received the New York Press Club award and Los Angeles Press Club award for his story on the rise and fall of MoviePass. It has since been made into the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary "MoviePass, MovieCrash."Previous to BI, Jason was the managing editor at Filmmaker Magazine, one of the leading publications in the independent film industry. He's also written for numerous publications over the years, including Vanity Fair, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Vulture, Variety, and indieWire.Popular ArticlesMary Carole McDonnell built a true-crime empire. Then the FBI came for her. Growing up Marvel: The tormented life of Stan Lee's child, JC LeeA bullet. A legend. A lie. Bufford Pusser killed his wife, authorities say. What happens to his legacy now?