Avengers: Infinity War is now the fastest movie to make $1 billion, Disney already confirmed over the weekend, after a stellar second weekend performance.

The new Avengers movie had the second biggest second weekend ever — it wasn’t able to outperform Disney’s other monster hit Star Wars: The Force Awakens — with $112 million.

Infinity War took home $112.5 million from 4,474 locations, News18 reports, which is almost $1 million more than Black Panther’s second weekend performance, but some $36.5 million shy of The Force Awakens.

The film needed just 11 days to cross the $1 billion mark which is an impressive accomplishment for Disney. And that’s without China, where the movie hasn’t opened, and where it’s expected to generate even more money.

In North American, Infinity War made $450.8 million, while the worldwide take sits at $1.16 billion. That’s already more money than Captain America: Civil War.

Disney, meanwhile, announced it made more than $3 billion from its 2018 releases, which include both Black Panther and Infinity War.

Disney didn’t have any real competition at the box office, with Overboard, a remake of the Goldie Hawn-Kurt Russell classic, made just $14 million from 1,623 theaters. A Quiet Place dropped to number three with $7.5 million in 3,413 locations. Tully, which also opened this weekend, came in just sixth, at $3.2 million.</s>LOS ANGELES (NYTIMES) - What records is Avengers: Infinity War not going to break?

The Disney/Marvel film continued to vaporise its competition in its second week, becoming the fastest film ever to cross US$1 billion (S$1.33 billion) globally.

Domestically, the film took in another US$112 million - the second biggest second weekend ever, behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens - and has now made US$450 million in the United States and Canada.

The film cruised past the cumulative total of many of the wildly successful predecessors in the Marvel cinematic universe, including Spider-Man: Homecoming, Thor: Ragnarok and Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2.

Records are being set around the world, including for the biggest opening day ever in Russia. And the movie has still not touched down in China, where it is expected to draw a mammoth audience.

The film's continued success reinforces the dominance of both Disney and Marvel studios in Hollywood.

Disney just crossed US$3 billion for 2018, breaking its own record for the shortest time to reach that landmark in a given year. And Marvel has another potential blockbuster, Deadpool 2, with Ryan Reynolds, arriving May 18.

In second place - and trailing by US$98 million - was Overboard, a gender-swapped remake of the 1987 romantic comedy with the same title. The film stars Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez as unlikely lovers, and was produced by MGM and Pantelion Films, a Lionsgate-backed production company aimed at Latino audiences.

While the film received poor reviews, it also earned an A- CinemaScore, which often bodes well for word-of-mouth ticket sales.</s>Avengers: Infinity War only came out 11 days ago and it’s already about to cross the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office.

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According to Entertainment Weekly, the film, which opened in some overseas territories April 25 before its North American release on April 27, earned a whopping $974.5 million globally by the end of Friday and was guaranteed to cross $1 billion on Saturday.

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The $1 billion haul makes Avengers: Infinity War the fastest film ever to reach that figure, and the only the 34th in history to do it at all.

Incredibly, the film has not even opened yet in many territories, including the biggest of all: China.

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Last week, Infinity War started off its record-breaking run by snagging the biggest opening weekend of all time with just over $257 million, beating Star Wars: The Force Awakens.</s>With less than two weeks since its release, Avengers: Infinity War has already crossed the $1 billion threshold.

It only took the film 11 days to make a whopping $1 billion in theaters worldwide, which beats out the previous record by Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which made it to the $1 Billion mark in 12 days. The film also beat out the same Star Wars film for highest opening of all time.</s>Iron Man, Captain America and Thanos reached the billion-dollar club in record time.

Disney's "Avengers: Infinity War" crossed $1 billion in worldwide box office sales on Saturday, according to the studio. The blockbuster hit the mark in just 11 days -- the fastest in film history.

The Marvel Studios film, which stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans and features a litany of superheroes, reached the milestone one day earlier than the previous record held by 2015's "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."

"Infinity War" is Marvel's sixth film to hit a billion and Disney's 17th.

Last weekend, "Infinity War" broke the record for biggest global opening in film history as well as the biggest domestic opening weekend. Since then, the film has gone on to put up some astounding numbers.

In just 11 days of release, the film has already made more than the overall totals of other comic book hits like "Wonder Woman," "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," "Guardians of the Galaxy," "X-Men: Days of Future Past" and "Justice League."

But most impressively, "Infinity War" has accomplished all of this without Chinese audiences. The film opens in China, the second biggest movie market in the world, on May 11.</s>NEW YORK
• What record is Avengers: Infinity War not going to break? The Disney/Marvel superhero mash-up continued to vaporise its competition in its second week, becoming the fastest film ever to cross US$1 billion (S$1.3 billion) globally - in just 11 days.

Domestically, it took in another US$112 million - the second biggest second weekend ever, behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens - and has now made US$450 million in the United States and Canada. It cruised past the cumulative total of many of the successful predecessors in the Marvel cinematic universe, including Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017).

Records are being set around the world, including for the biggest opening day ever in Russia. And the movie has yet to touch down in China, where it is expected to draw a mammoth audience.

Its continued success reinforces the dominance of both Disney and Marvel studios in Hollywood.

Disney just crossed US$3 billion for this year, breaking its own record for the shortest time to reach that landmark in a given year. And Marvel has another potential blockbuster, Deadpool 2, with Ryan Reynolds, arriving on May 18.</s>This weekend, "Avengers: Infinity War" passed "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" to become the fastest movie to earn $1 billion at the global box office.

"Infinity War" accomplished this feat in well under a month, which only 13 other films have ever done.

This huge year for Disney has already seen "Infinity War" and "Black Panther" join several other Marvel films on this list, which we ranked by the days it took each film to gross $1 billion worldwide.

We used each film's gross on the day it passed $1 billion to break any ties.

Here are the 14 movies that made $1 billion at the global box office in less than a month:</s>NEW YORK (AP) — "Avengers: Infinity War" is poised to set a record for fastest film to rake in $1 billion in business.

The Walt Disney Co. said Saturday that the Marvel superhero saga had earned just under $975 million in global box office through Friday. Since the film earned nearly $70 million on Friday alone, the studio is confident it will pass the billion-dollar mark on Saturday, in 11 days.

The previous record of fastest time for a movie to make a $1 billion was 12 days for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."

The star-stuffed "Infinity Wars" features Robert Downey Jr., Benedict Cumberbatch, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, and Chadwick Boseman, whose "Black Panther" movie has made more than $1.3 billion and remains in theaters.

This story has been corrected to show that the film's title is "Avengers: Infinity War" not "Avengers: Infinity Wars."</s>Avengers: Infinity War — Here's what Groot told Rocket in the Marvel film's heartbreaking ending

Avengers: Infinity War has flexed its considerable muscle in theaters worldwide, pulling in over $1.2 billion over the last ten days. But the millions who went to see Marvel's latest movie were left pretty devastated over its dark conclusion — one which has resulted in plenty of dissection.

Infinity War sees a veritable army of superheroes — including Dr. Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Ironman (Robert Downey Jr.) and Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) — joining forces to save the universe from the powerful Thanos (Josh Brolin). But the Mad Titan wipes out half the life in the universe, including many of the Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy.

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One of the Guardians that seemingly perished included fan favourite Teen Groot (Vin Diesel). Before the sentient tree fades away into dust, he shares an emotional, heartbreaking moment with Rocket (Bradley Cooper).

Considering all Groot really says is "I am Groot”, albeit with varying inflections, none of us really know what he really meant by it. We have to rely on the Guardians to decipher the meaning of the inflections and give us context.

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Recently, a fan asked Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn what Groot's last words were and this is what he had to say.

And fans had an immediate meltdown.

Also read — Avengers: Infinity War cements Hollywood's box office clout in India; what this means for Bollywood</s>The 19th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avengers: Infinity War, dethroned Star Wars: The Force Awakens in its opening weekend with $257 million domestically. The first film, Marvel’s The Avengers, held the record previously before being eventually beat out by Jurassic World. Marvel’s The Avengers was the first film to cross the $200 million mark in its opening weekend. The highly anticipated crossover event also earned the number one spot for worldwide opening and a total of 13 records.

Avengers: Infinity War is the culmination of Marvel Studios’ films since Iron Man. The film is the third in the Avengers film series and brings in new parts of the universe like Guardians of the Galaxy, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, and Spider-Man. Infinity War follows the unprecedented success of Black Panther, which has grossed more than $1.3 billion worldwide. Infinity War has opened to positive reviews and received a certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with an 84%.

Marvel Studios president and producer Kevin Feige left a note on his twitter saying, “Thank you for embracing these characters and stories since we kicked off the MCU ten years ago. This past weekend was a result beyond our wildest dreams.”

Lucasfilm congratulated Marvel Studios on beating their film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, with a poster of Rey handing off lightsaber to Iron Man. The poster also features congratulations from Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and everyone from the studio. Both franchises are properties of Disney and currently nine out of the ten films with the highest opening weekends domestically belong to the studio.

Avengers: Infinity War will continue to break records throughout the summer season and is on pace to become one of the highest grossing films of all time. The next film in the MCU is, Ant Man and the Wasp, which is due out in July and recently released a new trailer. Following Ant-Man and the Wasp, comes Captain Marvel in March and Untitled Avengers in May of next year.
American superhero film Avengers: Infinity War becomes the fastest film to make US$1 billion worldwide, in just eleven days.