Overview
- Industry trackers and exhibitors project Avengers: Endgame Encore will earn roughly $25 million to $30 million domestically this weekend, with some forecasts higher based on early ticket sales.
- Sony’s Resident Evil, after a roughly $60–61 million opening, is expected to fall to the mid‑20s in its second weekend and remains the closest challenger for the top spot.
- Three new wide releases — A24’s Primetime, Paramount’s Heart of the Beast, and DreamWorks/Universal’s Forgotten Island — are all tracking for mid‑to‑high‑teens openings with very different budget profiles that will affect their profit paths.
- Previews reported roughly $2M–$3M for both Endgame Encore and Primetime, and Disney’s Infinity Vision premium rollout plus new mid/post‑credit footage are being used to drive theater demand ahead of December’s Avengers: Doomsday.
- If Encore sustains past a front‑loaded opening it could add materially to Endgame’s lifetime gross and help narrow the roughly $124 million gap with Avatar, while exhibitors watch whether Infinity Vision changes premium‑format attendance beyond IMAX.