{"id":3120,"date":"2024-11-27T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karnameh.ae\/%d8%b3%d8%a7%d8%ae%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%81%d8%b2%d9%88%d9%86%d9%87-%d9%88%d8%b1%d8%af%d9%be%d8%b1%d8%b3-3\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T22:41:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T19:11:53","slug":"screens-2024-arab-stars-of-tomorrow-to-be-unveiled-at-red-sea-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnameh.ae\/?p=3120","title":{"rendered":"Avengers: Endgame set for record-breaking UAE box office opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest in the Marvel film franchise sold twice as many presale tickets this weekend in the UAE as previous movie<\/p>\n<div class=\"preview-text\">\n<p>The Avengers: Endgame movie earned AED6 million ($1.63 million) at the UAE box office on Thursday and a further AED8 million on Friday, meaning it is \u201calready guaranteed the biggest opening weekend\u201d in the country, according to distributor Walt Disney Studios.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"paywall-container\" class=\"paywall-container paywall-conatiner\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ev-meter-content\">\n<p>The Disney source told Arabian Business the movie had \u201ca stupendous Wednesday opening\u201d selling twice as many presales as the previous movie in the superhero franchise, Avengers: Infinity War, which was released last year.<\/p>\n<p>The distributor was forecasting \u201ca record breaking opening weekend with Endgame\u201d, having earned AED6 million on Thursday and AED8 million on Friday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-8\">\n<div class=\"ps-rl\">\n<div id=\"ad-slot-121\" class=\"googleAds\" data-index=\"121\" data-adtype=\"inread1\" data-google-query-id=\"CP2Oq7vL_IsDFeJC9ggd3qEJRw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21817151130\/ab_en_3__container__\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21817151130\/ab_en_3\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21817151130\/ab_en_3\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-google-container-id=\"3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>With Saturday sales still to be added, the distributor is \u201calready guaranteed the biggest opening weekend\u201d, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>Figures from Boxofficemojo.com reported that Avengers: Infinity War earned AED11,137,664 in its opening weekend when its opening in the UAE on May 10 last year.<\/p>\n<p>Other movies with big opening weekends at the UAE box office in recent months include Mission: Impossible \u2013 Fallout (AED16,661,995), Skyscraper (AED16,617,294), Venom (AED17,056,479) and Captain Marvel (AED14,643,759).<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-9\">\n<div class=\"ps-rl\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The three-hour Avengers: Endgame movie stars a long list of Hollywood superstars, including Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Karen Gillan, Bradley Cooper and Josh Brolin.<\/p>\n<p>It is the final chapter in the Avengers story, which has stretched across 22 films within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.<\/p>\n<p>The movie picks up after Avengers: Infinity War as the superheroes fight the evil villain Thanos.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-10\">\n<div class=\"ps-rl\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The performance in the UAE is expected to be repeated across the globe this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we are looking at levels of pre-sales and grosses not seen before, we are cautiously projecting a three-day in the $300 (million) range,\u201d a Walt Disney spokesperson told Reuters of the movie\u2019s box office projections in the US and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The current opening weekend record in the US and Canada is held by Avengers: Infinity War with $258 million.<\/p>\n<p>Avengers: Infinity War went on to earn a worldwide total of $2,048,359,754, according to Boxofficemojo.com, and is the fourth biggest selling movie of all time. Currently, the biggest selling movies are Avatar with $2.788 billion, followed by Titanic ($2.187 billion) and Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($2.068 billion).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest in the Marvel film franchise sold twice as many presale tickets this weekend in the UAE as previous movie The Avengers: Endgame movie earned AED6 million ($1.63 million) at the UAE box office on Thursday and a further AED8 million on Friday, meaning it is \u201calready guaranteed the biggest opening weekend\u201d in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnameh.ae\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnameh.ae\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnameh.ae\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnameh.ae\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnameh.ae\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/karnameh.ae\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3354,"href":"https:\/\/karnameh.ae\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions\/3354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnameh.ae\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnameh.ae\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnameh.ae\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnameh.ae\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}