Opening Weekend: $255 million
Domestic Total: $800 million
Global Total: $2 Billion

I've seen it.

Really like it.

But, I'm not the typical GA so who knows if they have realized that it's been split into 2.

If not, it could have some harsher legs than expected.

I'm making my way through all the films through Netflix etc. and from the ones I've seen, I'd say it's the best.

A lot of the films blur together, so it's a bit difficult to rank right now, but if I split them into 2 groups it'd look like this:

Good
Avengers: Infinity War
Black Panther
The Avengers
Iron Man

Not Very Good
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Captain America
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Captain America: Civil War
Incredible Hulk, The
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 3
SpiderMan: Homecoming (from memory)
Thor

I'd love to see $2b for this but I don't think this will do it. SW7 couldn't get there with a bigger domestic number and I don't see this increasing 27% from AoU to get $1.2b in OS markets.

After 153 reviews it’s at 86%

Its not dropping much from that mark now. Most likely another 70-80 reviews will come in later.

Film gets an 86% on RT and is considered to have bad reviews?

Opening Weekend: $235 million
Domestic Total: $565 million
Global Total: $1.6 Billion

I don't think (m)any said bad reviews. I thought it was good but not upper tier MCU product

Oh, I wish everyone would cut the shit. It's doing standard MCU pre-Bland Panther, but now everyone is just comparing it to BP so there's an undercurrent of disappointment to everything (reviews, wom, box office). If BP never existed, people would be creaming in their pants at certified fresh 86% for the 18th installment in a franchise, and a possible $225m opening.

I can't speak for others and their comparisons but I'm comparing this to Avengers, AoU, CW first then the solo movies. I didn't really love BP as much as the reviews and general reception here. And anyways it's BO hasn't started yet so there is no point comparing the two. Plus I think with the expected humongous OW of IW it can still make slightly more than BP.

DOM 650/700M
OS 1.15/1.30B
It definitely has a shot at 2B WW, though for now I'll settle for a more conservative 1.8 billions.

We already have our wraparound queues (which actually extend outside the building for a film like this) set up. Going to be a wild night.

Pure shit.

Average rating / Rotten total

Infinity War - 7.6 / Rotten: 22 (87% - 165 reviews)
Black Panther - 8.2 / Rotten: 13
Ragnarok - 7.5 / Rotten: 27
Guardians Vol. 2 - 7.2 / Rotten: 58
Homecoming - 7.7 / Rotten: 24
Strange - 7.3 / Rotten: 34
Civil War - 7.7 / Rotten: 33
Ant-Man - 6.8 / Rotten: 53
Ultron - 6.7 / Rotten: 83
Guardians - 7.7 / Rotten: 28
Soldier - 7.6 / Rotten: 31
Dark World - 6.2 / Rotten: 87
Iron Man 3 - 7.0 / Rotten: 61
Avengers - 8.0 / Rotten: 26
Captain - 7.0 / Rotten: 52
Thor - 6.7 / Rotten: 63
Iron Man 2 - 6.5 / Rotten: 75
The Incredible Hulk - 6.2 / Rotten: 74
Iron Man - 7.7 / Rotten: 17

I don't want anything spoiled, but the prospect of a depressing/somber conclusion (as referenced in myriad reviews) has me wondering if I want to rush out and see it.

#InfinityWar overtook one #StarWars movie to become the third-highest pre-sale in the history of Fandango.

https://twitter.com/Fandango/status/989489773763940352

Looks like Stars Wars is safe

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Top 5 All-Time Fandango Presellers:

1. TFA
2. TLJ
3. IW
4. R1
5. BP

Why?

Because Star Wars always has higher pre-sales. It is more front loaded than MCU movies on opening weekend.

Exactly and the fact that it has officially topped RO in pre-sales is a HUGE accomplishment on it's own. If I'm remembering correctly that was the second highest pre-seller of all-time on Fandango before TLJ came out. Barring some unusual frontloadedness I believe this is locked to beat TLJ's OW.

Oh I thought it was selling higher than TLJ but still very impressive.

Infinity War has more pre-sales than the previous 7 MCU films combined. Should tell you something about comparisons.

Straight comparing to a different franchise that acts differently will lead to poor conclusions.

Ha! Star Wars OWNS!!!!!

It's not going to open equal to combined presales of previous MCU movies which btw weren't big in presales. So no that doesn't say much.

MCU has become frontloaded and this one is supposedly the most frontloaded of the series. Plus breaking OW record is going to be impossible if IW does what say BP did in presales. Btw I did mention it several times IW doesn't need to match TFA but it should get close to those numbers to have a shot at OW.

Not a record

Social media makes pop culture travel insanely fast. It took 20 years for jurassic park to feel nostalgic, but only 6 years for Avengers.