'Avengers: Infinity War' smashes box office records with $640 million opening weekend
"Avengers: Infinity War" opened globally in box offices to the tune of $640 million, according to reports from Disney.
The parent company of Marvel Studios added that the film also grossed $258 million in sales in the U.S. alone. With these numbers, "Infinity War" broke both the domestic opening-weekend box office record and the worldwide opening record.
Domestically, "Infinity War" topped 2015's "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and beat out "Fate of the Furious" by almost $100 million for best global debut.
The film was poised to have a tremendous opening weekend, considering the movie is 10 years in the making, the culmination of 18 films previously released by Marvel Studios, all tied together for this latest film against the galaxy's biggest threat yet -- the mad Titan, Thanos.
Some notables starring in the film include Chadwick Boseman, Tom Holland, Robert Downey Jr., Elizabeth Olsen, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson and many, many others.
Andrew Wallenstein, Variety's co-editor-in-chief, told "Good Morning America" that "Infinity War" is a movie "that stands on the shoulders of so many of the previous Marvel titles" like "Captain America" and "Guardians of the Galaxy."
"Now the number to watch is if this movie will go from the biggest opening of all time to the biggest movie of all time," he added.
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