Marvel also pulled off a rare feat with both Infinity War and Black Panther in the top 5, with the $258.1 million opening weekend of Avengers: Infinity War setting a new all-time record, while Black Panther’s $4.3 million brought its domestic tally to $688 million, the third highest of all time, and its worldwide total to $1.331 billion, 10th highest of all time, just behind the $1.332 billion of Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens was the top movie in 2015 with a record-breaking $936.6 million, a tally Avengers: Infinity War may be able to top, while Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was the highest-grossing movie of 2016 with $554.8 million and Star Wars: The Last Jedi was last year’s top-grossing movie with $620.1 million.
As of now, Black Panther is the highest-grossing MCU movie domestically with $688 million while The Avengers is the highest-grossing worldwide with $1.5 billion, but it’s possible both those records will be broken by the time Avengers: Infinity War finishes its run.
While Avengers: Infinity War broke box office records this weekend, it was both Infinity War and Marvel’s other smash hit, Black Panther, that helped push the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole past $15 billion worldwide.