Hi all So the Avengers hit the screens worldwide today, allegedly for the last time, but if I know anything about Hollywood, they'll find a way to make another one. Globally, the film is looking extremely impressive, helped no doubt by the stellar reviews from the press. They knew the opening was going to be big, the question was, just how big. Already, returns from the East (Australia etc.) were all single-day records. As for the US ... from Boxofficemojo: "Before a single frame outside of the trailers had been seen, Disney and Marvel Studios's Avengers: Endgame began breaking records. In its first seven days of pre-sales, the film sold "five times" as many tickets as Avengers: Infinity War according to online ticket retailer Fandango.com and since then it remains the company's top pre-seller of all-time. Further more, the film will open in a record number of theaters, debuting in over 4,600 locations this weekend with thousands of showings already sold out, and several locations set to remain open 24 hours a day throughout the weekend." So they're expecting up to 300 M$ in the US, and up to 900 M$ globally, shattering just about every opening record there is. Note that the film has a 183 minutes (3 hours) run time plus all the pre-movie bits ... go to the toilet first :-) The rest of the lineup is much more subdued, being arthouse-and-similar material. Going alphabetically, a new local release takes a look at Bram Fischer and the famous 1963 Rivonia treason trial. Sticking with troubled times, Keira Knightley takes us back to just after WW II Germany, for a tangled domestic drama in Aftermath, while the last film is set in India, but not Bollywood, rather a faith-based film about a missionary working with lepers. 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