Fifty million dollars. That’s how much Avengers: Doomsday has already pulled in from ticket pre-sales in the United States, and the movie doesn’t hit theaters until December.
Three months out. Still $50 million-plus in the bank before a single ticket gets torn.
People aren’t just buying tickets, they’re buying the expensive ones
More than 70% of those pre-sales are for Infinity Vision screenings. That’s the tell. Audiences aren’t settling for the standard auditorium down at the multiplex when the big one is an option.
Premium formats have been eating a larger share of the pie for years now, but a 70% split this far ahead of release is the kind of number that reshapes how a studio plans its screen count.
The trailer did numbers, too
July's trailer landed as the second-largest movie trailer launch of all time. It’s also the most popular trailer in Disney’s history, which is a sentence worth sitting with given how many things Disney owns.
And the spillover has been real.
Disney+ is catching the runoff
Related Marvel productions racked up more than 420 million viewing hours on Disney+ during August alone. That’s people doing homework. Or re-watching. Or both, because the two have been the same thing in this franchise for a while.
It’s the clearest sign that the anticipation isn’t confined to the theatrical release. The back catalog is working as a runway.
December 18 is going to be a bloodbath
Avengers: Doomsday premieres December 18, 2026. So does Denis Villeneuve’s third Dune film.
Same day. Same premium screens that 70% of Doomsday’s pre-sale buyers just claimed.
Two of the biggest event films of the year, both built for the largest formats available, both arriving on the same Friday in the middle of the holiday corridor. One of them is already sitting on $50 million before the trailers finish rolling.
The other one has Villeneuve.
