The film ‘Avatar’ could return to being the highest grossing film in history after a re-release this Friday in theaters in China, where it has grossed more than $ 3.5 million on its first day with those that would surpass in ‘Avengers: Endgame’ (2019), current holder of the title.
‘Avengers: Endgame’, the film called to culminate with magnificence a decade of intertwined storytelling on the stories of Marvel comics, reached in 2019 the $ 2.790.2 million worldwide collection, a figure with the which was imposed on the 2,789.7 million achieved by ‘Avatar’ in 2009.
But 18 months later, the 2009 blockbuster has re-released in China, where audiences are flocking to theaters en masse after coronavirus containment measures relaxed.
The results of the box office collection will not be known until the end of the weekend, but industry media like Deadline estimate they could top 5.8 million on Saturday.
The brand refers to absolute box office terms and does not take into account the variation of prices over time or successive re-releases of the same tape.
For example, in the ranking of highest-grossing films counting inflation, a fact that allows a closer comparison between films from different eras, ‘Gone with the Wind’ (1939) tops this list in the US and Canada with ‘Avengers: Endgame ‘in sixteenth place, according to the specialized portal Box Office Mojo.
In 2019, James Cameron has said he felt hopeful when the film ‘Avengers: Endgame’ was proclaimed as the highest grossing in history, snatching the record on its own tape.
‘It gives me a lot of hope, it’s a demonstrable proof that people will continue to go to the cinemas,’ he said while working on two sequels of ‘Avatar’ that can be seen from 2022. EFE