As Avengers: Endgame rockets toward a second record-breaking weekend, one analyst has made a bold prediction.
Wade Holden, an entertainment-industry forecaster at Kagan, S&P Global Market Intelligence, now expects the superhero movie to eclipse 2009's Avatar as the highest-grossing film of all time. That means Endgame would have to generate at least another $1 billion in box-office revenue globally in the coming weeks.
Already, Endgame is in the top five, raking in $1.79 billion as of Friday morning. That puts it just behind a quartet of movies that made $2 billion-plus: Avatar, Titanic, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Avengers: Infinity War.
The figures aren't inflation-adjusted, but having the top-grossing film is still a major bragging right for the industry. James Cameron wrote and directed both of the current top two movies, so Endgame threatens to push him down the ranks.
But he'll have another shot at box-office glory next year: Avatar 2, part of a franchise now owned by Disney, will be released in December 2020.
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In numbers: PKK’s money network in Europe
Germany: PKK collectors typically bring in $18 million in cash a year – amount has trebled since 2010
Revolutionary tax: Investigators say about $2 million a year raised from ‘tax collection’ around Marseille
Extortion: Gunman convicted in 2023 of demanding $10,000 from Kurdish businessman in Stockholm
Drug trade: PKK income claimed by Turkish anti-drugs force in 2024 to be as high as $500 million a year
Denmark: PKK one of two terrorist groups along with Iranian separatists ASMLA to raise “two-digit million amounts”
Contributions: Hundreds of euros expected from typical Kurdish families and thousands from business owners
TV channel: Kurdish Roj TV accounts frozen and went bankrupt after Denmark fined it more than $1 million over PKK links in 2013
