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- "Avengers: Endgame" won the national box office for a third consecutive weekend with a $ 63.1 million take.
- He fought against Warner Bros. & # 39; new version, "Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, which generated $ 58 million, the fourth best opening on the national market of the year.
- The national total of" Endgame "is now rising to $ 724 million, making it the third highest of all time.
- Worldwide, the film is still the number two of all time with $ 2.486 billion, about $ 300 million less than the historic leader "Avatar" ($ 2.788 billion).
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The Disney Avengers: Endgame "got enough of fight to win his first big battle at the national box office.
Now in its third weekend at the poster, Marvel's superheroes clashed with his first worthy Warner Bros. opponent. & # 39; "Pokémon: Detective Pikachu" this weekend. But "Endgame" managed to retain first place at the box office for a third weekend in a row, winning $ 63.1 million from the $ 58 million reported by the character Pokémon in the voice of Ryan Reynolds
Disney's win comes despite Friday's box office win of "Pikachu", which earned $ 20.7 million (including $ 5.7 million in Thursday's previews), while "Endgame" has received $ 16 million. the film cashed $ 27.4 million on Saturday, overtaking "Pikachu", which earned $ 20.5 million that day.
The numbers of "Endgame" of the third weekend are lower than what is indicated in the box office badysts predicted for the film (forecasts predicted around 70 million dollars over the weekend), but it has earned him enough to not only advance a character from the popular Pokémon publication, but to become the third most profitable film to date with $ 7 million ( pbading "Black Panther" with $ 700 llion).
In all other cases, "Pikachu" would easily have made Warner Bros the winner of the weekend. "Endgame" took the plunge during the live studio launch of Pokémon movies, but "Detective Pikachu" continued to show a good performance with an average of $ 14,000 per screen and the fourth best national opening of year (exceeding $ 55 million "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World").
More : The 10 best Pokémon games of all time, according to critics
The World Crime for "Endgame" currently stands at $ 2.486 billion, about $ 300 million less than the equivalent of Avatar for the all time record ($ 2.788 billion). But what "Endgame" can take at the multiplex in the future will only worsen. Next weekend, Keanu Reeves arrives with "John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum" and the following weekend, Disney returns to theaters with the live-action "Aladdin".
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