‘Avengers: Endgame’ Beats ‘Detective Pikachu’ to Top Box Office
Written by SOURCE on May 12, 2019
Marvel continues to dominate the domestic box office as Avengers: Endgame tops sales for the third weekend in a row. The blockbuster brought in close to $63 million in North America, according to reports.
When Endgame opened last month, it broke records by amassing $1.2 billion globally. It’s currently en route to overtaking 2009’s Avatar as the highest-grossing film of all time. Endgame is also the fastest film to eclipse the $2 billion mark.
Thought it’s pretty far from Endgame‘s success (just like every other movie ever created), Pokémon Detective Pikachu performed better than expected. The Warner Bros. film followed Endgame as the country’s No. 2 film raking in an estimated $58 million. This exceeded predictions that the movie would make $50-55 million in its first weekend. Pokémon Detective Pikachu‘s success can be contributed to the strength of the Pokémon brand and the fact Deadpool‘s Ryan Reynolds voices the popular creature.
Detective Pikachu is the first of May’s big movie releases. The highly anticipated movies John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Aladdin, and Godzilla: King of Monsters are coming in the next few weeks.
