"The Avengers 3" Will Cross 2 Billion in a Couple Days

Avengers: Infinity War presented itself as the definitive chapter in this current iteration of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (although, it was incognito the first half of the definitive chapter, considering Avengers 4 was initially meant to be called Avengers: Infinity War - Part Two). Fans of the franchise have watched the many cogs at work, the world-building, and the many places the Infinity Stones have shown themselves.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has always been a film juggernaut (with only The Incredible Hulk truly under-performing out of the whole nineteen-film series thus far), however, it appeared the series might have found its ceiling early with 2012's The Avengers grossing over 1.5 billion-dollars worldwide. Avengers: Age of Ultron failed to build on that (still doing fantastic) and none of the solo films have been able to top it either (Black Panther managed to successfully out-gross The Avengers AND Avengers: Infinity War as the highest-grossing superhero film of all-time domestically, however). Avengers: Infinity War has hereby raised the goal-post and is now on pace to become the first superhero film and only the fourth film ever to cross 2 billion dollars at the worldwide box-office.

The film is about out of gas and so, it looks like it's unlikely to overtake Star Wars: The Force Awakens' spot as the third highest-grossing film of all-time, but Disney will have to live with the fact that its other film did a little better than it.

This accolade comes with one caveats which I'll get into now:

- Black Panther is the highest-grossing superhero film of all-time domestically. However, if you account for box-office inflation, The Avengers (2012) is still slightly (about 5 million) ahead of it. Avengers: Infinity War is the second highest-grossing superhero film of all-time domestically, but if you count inflation, Infinity War would be in fourth behind The Dark Knight (which looks like it will be able to hold onto that accolade). In the end, the four highest-grossing superhero films are all very close together. When Infinity War finishes its domestic run, they'll be less than 40 million separating all of them.

- If you adjust worldwide for inflation, Avengers: Infinity War would be the eleventh highest-grossing film of all-time.

Nevertheless, regardless of box-office inflation, Avengers: Infinity War is the highest-grossing superhero film of all-time, comfortably surpassing The Avengers' claim with room to spare.

One thing to consider...it might get two rereleases in the next year...once for Oscar season and again before the sequel comes out.

I don't think that Avengers: Infinity War will receive a re-release, but if it did, most re-releases only amount to another 10-15 million in-profit. No other film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has ever had a re-release before. Avengers doesn't really have much to gain with Oscar season. This simply isn't a film that the Academy is kind to. Re-releasing it before the sequel could happen, but I think it'd only be 10-15 million in-profit.

HOWEVER, if they wanted to head that route, Black Panther is a film I think they could play up to the Academy.