7 Years Later, Avengers: Endgame Loses Major Box Office Milestone to New Movie With $750k Budget - MCE Notices | California State Portal

The horror genre has been going through a major resurgence in movie theaters with absolute dominance at the box office in recent weeks. One of the year’s most buzzed-about films, Curry Barker’s low-budget horror hit Obsession, has now even managed to overcome the blockbuster MCU movie Avengers: Endgame with a big box office milestone.

On its 25th day in domestic movie theaters, Obsession earned another $4.2 million. That’s higher than the $3.2 million Avengers: Endgame made by the same time in its theatrical run back in 2019. The highest-grossing domestic release in movie history, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, also made $3.1 million on its 25th day in theaters, putting Obsession at the head of the pack by more than a million. Another big MCU earner, Spider-Man: No Way Home, was at $2.4 million made on day 25.

Obsession Is One of Movie History’s Most Profitable Films

All in all, this has proven to be a very successful run for Obsession, a film that was made with a budget of just $750K. It is now at over $165 million domestically, while overseas earnings have resulted in a global haul of more than $238 million. That means that Obsession has made over 317 times its budget, with the number still rising. Even if its final earnings won’t match the aforementioned big-budget blockbusters earning around $2 billion each, Obsession is having longer legs at the box office than most theatrical releases.

Obsession stars Michael Johnston as a music store worker who wishes upon a supernatural trinket for his friend (Inde Navarrette) to fall in love with him, bringing about horrifically unexpected consequences. Putting a darker spin on the classic trope of “be careful what you wish for,” the feature film has garnered widespread praise in addition to its box office success. It is scored at 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, serving as one of the best-reviewed movies of the year so far.

Avengers: Endgame Is Returning to Theaters

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While Avengers: Endgame may have seen one of its box office milestones overtaken, it’s soon getting a chance to make even more money in theaters. Ahead of the release of the upcoming sequel, Avengers: Doomsday, a new cut of Avengers: Endgame will be premiered in theaters this year on Sept. 25. This cut will include new footage that will tie directly into the events of Doomsday, which will follow with its own release on Dec. 18.

“It’s critically important to re-release the movie, and, in fact, we’ll be re-releasing the film with footage that is set in the Doomsday story that we have added to Avengers: Endgame,” co-director Joe Russo previously told Deadline. continued: “It’s an opportunity to create a bridge from Endgame to Doomsday in a very unique way, and because the movie was so successful, we have an opportunity to re-release it.”

He added, “You don’t always get the chance to re-release because it costs money, so the fact that we can enhance the story of Doomsday by bridging it to Endgame and these characters that we worked with for years that we love so much, and continue their story: It’s a really unique opportunity.”

Obsession is playing in movie theaters.