Avengers: Endgame was a box office powerhouse when it released in April, but despite its monster opening, the movie wasn`t quite able to take the box office earnings record from another enormous movie: Avatar. That`s no longer the case, according to Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige, who just announced at San Diego Comic-Con that Endgame took Avatar`s box office record.There`s a catch, though.`I literally just heard from our folks at Disney Distribution that Avengers: Endgame will be the biggest film of all time,` Feige said during the Marvel Studios panel in Comic-Con`s Hall H. `You have to shout out to [Avatar director] James Cameron--if you adjust for inflation he still holds that title, but right now, thanks to you folks in Hall H, Avengers: Endgame is the biggest film of all time.`That means that in straight numbers, Endgame has surpassed Avatar`s total box office take of $2.78 billion. But as Feige mentioned, the world was different in 2009, when Avatar was released, and inflation means that $2.78 billion was worth more then than it is now.You might also recall that Disney and Marvel Studios worked pretty hard to get that record out of Cameron`s hands. The company returned Endgame to theaters on June 28 so it could soak up even more money. Before its `farewell` tour, Endgame had only raked in $2.74 billion. Still, a record is a record, and Disney fought to take this one.There`s plenty more news coming out of Marvel`s Hall H panel, and you can find full coverage of all of it on our Comic-Con hub.
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