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By R.T. Watson WSJ Sun., May 5, 2019 Walt Disney Co.’s “Avengers: Endgame” became the second-highest-grossing movie of all time, reaching nearly $2.19 billion in global box-office revenue just 12 days after hitting theaters, according to preliminary studio estimates. “Endgame” took just 11 days to reach $2 billion in sales, whereas the top-grossing movie of all time, “Avatar,” took 47 days to surpass the mark, according to Disney, which now owns Twentieth Century Fox, the studio that released the 2009 science-fiction drama. “Endgame” is the fifth movie to pass $2 billion, according to Box Office Mojo. Marvel Studios’ latest installment, a three-hour epic marketed as a culmination of more than 20 comic-book movies featuring myriad superheroes tied together by several interwoven story lines, has collected an estimated $619.7 million in the U.S. and Canada, the ninth-highest total in the domestic market. The … [Read more...] about Avengers: Endgame surpasses $2 billion (U.S.) in record time
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No ‘Avengers’ spoilers (unless you count haircuts)
By this time, most people inclined to watch The Avengers: Endgame already have done so, but I still feel it polite not to spoil too many details from the new movie. So let’s talk about their haircuts instead. For Thor, now residing in a new version of Asgard on some coastal Norwegian port, surrounded by a litter of empty beer bottles, it’s kind of an Australian surfer-stoner rag weave, combined with a pair of sunglasses and beard that puts him firmly in Jeff Lebowski territory. Oh, and a beer belly. Captain Marvel (aka Carol Danvers) meanwhile shifts from the tresses she sported in the last movie to a kind of sparkly Miley Cyrus undercut; Jeremy Renner, returning as Hawkeye, dons a faux-hawk with a kind of pomp wave upfront and a bunch of arm tats I don’t remember being there before, which definitely qualifies as some kind of middle-aged crisis. At least he doesn’t have an earring. Tony Stark is sporting what I would call untended salt-and-pepper scruff. Natasha … [Read more...] about No ‘Avengers’ spoilers (unless you count haircuts)
Avengers: Endgame sets 5 brand new collection records at global box office
Avengers: Endgame has taken the global box office by storm in the first weekend and crossed the historic business mark of $1.2 billion in three days. The film has set five brand new collection records. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures has distributed Avengers: Endgame across the globe. The bosses of the studio have made it official that the movie grossed $350 million in North America and $859 million in the international markets. Its global total stands at $1,209 million. Avengers: Infinity War, the predecessor of Avengers: Endgame, had taken 11 days to reach the billion-dollar threshold. Avengers: Endgame has now achieved this feat in just five days, which is more than twice as fast as its predecessor. The movie has set several collection records not only in the domestic market but also in key international markets. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures has released the estimated collection and records set by Avengers: Endgame in various territories on its official website. Here are … [Read more...] about Avengers: Endgame sets 5 brand new collection records at global box office
How ‘Avengers: Endgame’ changes these 5 upcoming Marvel movies and TV shows
caption Thor, Star-Lord, and Gamora in “Avengers: Infinity War” source Marvel Studios Warning: This post contains major spoilers for “Avengers: Endgame.” “Endgame” has a significant impact on some Marvel movies and TV shows that are currently in the works. They include Black Widow’s solo movie and the Loki TV series coming to the Disney Plus streaming service. Visit BusinessInsider.com for more stories. Warning: This post contains major spoilers for “Avengers: Endgame.” “Avengers: Endgame” shatters whatever expectations audiences had about Marvel’s future movies and TV shows. While Marvel Studios won’t make any official announcements until after July’s “Spider-Man: Far From Home” is released, we know of at least six movies currently in the works, and there are eight release dates on Disney’s theatrical-release schedule for yet-to-be-titled Marvel … [Read more...] about How ‘Avengers: Endgame’ changes these 5 upcoming Marvel movies and TV shows
John Singleton, maker of ‘Boyz N the Hood,’ dies at 51
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By Jake Coyle And Hillel Italie The Associated Press Mon., April 29, 2019 NEW YORK - Director John Singleton, who made one of Hollywood’s most memorable debuts with the Oscar-nominated “Boyz N the Hood” and continued over the following decades to probe the lives of black communities in his native Los Angeles and beyond, has died. He was 51. Singleton’s family said Monday that he died after being taken off life support, about two weeks after the director suffered a major stroke. Singleton was in his early 20s, just out of the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, when he wrote, directed and produced “Boyz N the Hood.” Based on Singleton’s upbringing and shot in his old neighbourhood, the low-budget production starred Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ice Cube and centred on three friends in South Central Los Angeles, where college aspirations competed with the pressures of gang life. “Boyz N the … [Read more...] about John Singleton, maker of ‘Boyz N the Hood,’ dies at 51