As preparation for the wedding of the century begins, Emily's plan is working perfectly. Emily reveals to Daniel that she is pregnant, while Margaux, searching for information about Conrad, meets the returning Lydia Davis.
At the wedding shower, Victoria invites Emily's former husband, but her plans are quickly thwarted when Emily reveals the true reason for their marriage. Charlotte meets Aiden to seek his help after she has lost her phone and is being blackmailed. After all, even if the Avengers don’t obliterate the record books this summer, they’ll be back and vying for the prize in the near future.Conrad invites Daniel for a Grayson rite of passage - a place where he can spend time with his paramours after the wedding. Setting a new opening weekend record would be nice bragging rights for Marvel, but Infinity War serves a greater purpose than making a ton of money: to keep viewers engaged and eager for the next phase of the MCU. But even if it doesn’t outperform its blockbuster brethren, it demands to be evaluated in a different context. It could set new records out of the gate, or it might settle for second or third place. No matter how Infinity War shakes out this weekend and beyond, it’s already clear that we’re dealing with a smash hit of epic proportions.
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Besides, Black Panther was such an unprecedented success that it’s hard to compare any movie to it, MCU or not. It could also play as a souped-up sequel to February’s obscenely successful Black Panther ($242m four-day weekend and a domestic cume of $683m and counting), but King T’Challa represents just one cog in the hulking (no pun intended) Avengers machine. But again, Jurassic World picked up the franchise 14 years after Jurassic Park III, and it could stand on its own as a big, bad dino flick, whereas Infinity War comes with years of backstory and world-building. There’s been talk of how it will compare to Jurassic World, which opened to $208m in 2015 and ultimately grossed $652m domestically, the fifth-highest unadjusted total of all time right above The Avengers. Looking at a few other similarly huge summer blockbusters, Infinity War still exists in an entirely unique context. That’s a 2.36x multiplier and a respectable run for an ultimately filler movie. Deathly Hallows Part 1 opened to a much softer $125m and finished its run with $295m domestic. But as an actual movie, Infinity War plays more like Deathly Hallows Part 1, amounting to a very expensive ramp-up to whatever happens in Avengers 4. It tumbled after its opening day and proved to be fairly front-loaded, ending its domestic run with $381m, which comes out to a 2.25x multiplier.
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Even with Avengers 4 on the horizon, Infinity War has billed itself as the end-all be-all superhero showdown, and that sense of finality will send moviegoers flocking to theaters whether they understand the MCU’s future blueprints or not.Īnd what about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2? The eighth and final installment in the epic fantasy series opened to a then-record $169m, including a massive $91m Friday, still the third-largest in history behind the last two Star Wars movies. Infinity War also doesn’t find itself in the unenviable position of being the second film in a planned threequel. It also hasn’t proven nearly as polarizing as The Last Jedi, with 84% of critics and 93% of fans giving it positive marks on Rotten Tomatoes. Its “newness” doesn’t factor into its box office performance so much as its epic scope.
Infinity War doesn’t follow a 10-year franchise drought on the contrary, it’s the latest film in a series that has dominated the marketplace over the past decade. In comparison, The Last Jedi’s performance seemed positively meek, closing its stateside run with $620m and generating an enormous chasm between rapturous critic reviews (91% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and tepid fan feedback (a paltry 47% fresh). The Force Awakens generated enough goodwill and sheer curiosity to propel its domestic total to $936m, by far the biggest domestic grosser of all time, not adjusted for inflation. It faced a decade’s worth of expectations from diehard fans, newcomers and old-heads alike, all of them curious whether it would live up to George Lucas’ original trilogy or sink even lower than the maligned prequels. The Force Awakens opened 10 years after the last Star Wars film, Revenge of the Sith.
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