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As much as I want to say that, I'd still say the odds are against it doing that, especially when it comes to international box office. Keep in mind that Avatar is still number one at a whopping and nearly untouchable $2.788 million international haul. Next closest movie to it is Titanic at a distant $2.187 million and an even much greater distance is the closest MCU to it with Avengers at $1.518 million. Shoot, that is practically only half of what Avatar did. Also, for all the box office breaking headlines Black Panther has pulled lately, keep in mind that pretty much all of those have been domestic numbers they've been talking about. Black Panther so far has only hauled in $1.302 million internationally.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/

So, moral of the story: odds are strongly against Infinity War unseating Avatar. Best case scenario in my mind is that it gives both Titanic ($2.187 million) and Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($2.068 million) a run for their money. However, I'd even puts odds against that. My guess is that it ends up #4 all-time at the box office.

Avatar was a surprise at the time, wasn't it?
Star Wars was a given, even though it wasn't very good.

10 years of buildup here. This one has a real chance at #1 domestically and around the world.
I'm already working on ways to see it a 2nd time, which is a major time commitment for me and something I never do. Pretty sure the repeat audience on this will be massive just from anticipation and wanting to see whatever we all missed the first time.

There is no limit to the $ this thing will bring in.
 
Avatar was a surprise at the time, wasn't it?
Star Wars was a given, even though it wasn't very good.

10 years of buildup here. This one has a real chance at #1 domestically and around the world.
I'm already working on ways to see it a 2nd time, which is a major time commitment for me and something I never do. Pretty sure the repeat audience on this will be massive just from anticipation and wanting to see whatever we all missed the first time.

There is no limit to the $ this thing will bring in.

We'll see, but Avatar came out at a different era of movie theaters that we all need to consider. Avatar also rode in perfect time of a new wave of International box office interest/combined with the new 3D technology to coincide with it. This movie doesn't have some of those unique factors to it. Also, while we are all super jacked for Infinity War, it is tough to tell exactly if the hype for this is any more or less than the hype for The Force Awakens being the first Star Wars movie to come out in 10 years, and to good reviews at that. People forget how amped everyone was for that movie pretty quickly. Everyone and their mom went to see that and many people multiples times. So, even if it does somehow surpass The Force Awakens, you still are sitting a VERY far cry away from Avatar. Shoot, I haven't even mentioned how box office receipts having been falling each year lately due to the rise in home theaters and greater competition for people's time. There are just a lot of things to consider here.
 
As much as I want to say that, I'd still say the odds are against it doing that, especially when it comes to international box office. Keep in mind that Avatar is still number one at a whopping and nearly untouchable $2.788 million international haul. Next closest movie to it is Titanic at a distant $2.187 million and an even much greater distance is the closest MCU to it with Avengers at $1.518 million. Shoot, that is practically only half of what Avatar did. Also, for all the box office breaking headlines Black Panther has pulled lately, keep in mind that pretty much all of those have been domestic numbers they've been talking about. Black Panther so far has only hauled in $1.302 million internationally.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/

So, moral of the story: odds are strongly against Infinity War unseating Avatar. Best case scenario in my mind is that it gives both Titanic ($2.187 million) and Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($2.068 million) a run for their money. However, I'd even puts odds against that. My guess is that it ends up #4 all-time at the box office.

Sorry to be "that guy" but I think you mean billion instead of million. Avatar made $2.788 billion
 
Black Panther Blu-Ray release date is May 15.

Digital only release is May 8

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=23133

This kind of bums me out, because I was hoping they'd find a way to release Black Panther before infinity war hits theaters. I probably won't get a chance to see Pamnther before infinity war, so I'll likely be waiting until like early June to watch infinity war.
 
I’m bored since it’s crappy out so here’s goes.

Like: Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, Ant Man, Black Widow, Spider-Man, Black Panther, War Machine, Thor, Dr Strange, Fury, Thanos, Gamora, Drax

Unsure/meh: Cap (Pitt would need to bulk up and he always plays More of a bad boy), Hulk, vision, Starlord, Nebula, Mantis

No: Winter Soldier, Falcon, Ironman, Rocket (Please god no)
 
It was just revealed that Carrie Coon (she played Nora Durst in the HBO series The Leftovers) provided the voice over and mo-cap for Proxima Midnight in Infinity War.
 
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There was a brief clip on Good Morning America yesterday showing 3 of the Avengers fighting two members of the Black Order. The takeaway from that clip is that it sounds like Peter Dinklage provided the voice-over for Corvus Glaive.

 
Gonna call Ant Man and Wasp as surprise Marvel hit/moneymaker.

This is considering Avengers and Deadpool as money already in the bank.
 
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Gonna call Ant Man and Wasp as surprise Marvel hit/moneymaker.

This is considering Avengers and Deadpool as money already in the bank.
Speaking of Ant Man and Wasp, EW had some new images posted yesterday:

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Thought you guys might want to check out some merch I worked on for Infinity War, this stuff all for direct theater sales with concessions, some of it only overseas. The Iron Man head is a popcorn bucket and the gauntlet is a soda cup. Little figurines plug into soda cups.
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Thought you guys might want to check out some merch I worked on for Infinity War, this stuff all for direct theater sales with concessions, some of it only overseas. The Iron Man head is a popcorn bucket and the gauntlet is a soda cup. Little figurines plug into soda cups.
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Super cool. Any way you could elaborate what exactly you work on and contribute to these? I'm just curious is all. Sounds fun.
 
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