‘Avengers: Endgame’ Returns to Theaters With $3.8 Million at Thursday Box Office

Disney/Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Endgame Encore” is set to top several new films at the box office as the former all-time box office record holder returned to theaters Thursday night and made $3.8 million. Featuring a new color balance and post-credit sequences teasing “Avengers: Doomsday,” “Endgame Encore” is set to earn $25-28 million this weekend. If walk-ups are particularly strong and it can clear $30.2 million, it will set a new unadjusted record for the highest weekend ever for a re-release, topping the 2011 3D reissue of “The Lion King.” Among newcomers, the highest grossing film is expected to be A24’s “Primetime,” which stars Robert Pattinson as “To Catch a Predator” host Chris Hansen, which made $2.8 million from preview screenings as it is looking at an opening weekend of around $20 million. Paramount’s “Heart of the Beast,” a David Ayer survival thriller starring Brad Pitt as an Army vet who crashes with his combat dog in the Alaskan wilderness, earned $2 million from Thursday previews as it is projected for an opening weekend in the high teens. Finally, there’s Universal/DreamWorks’ “Forgotten Island,” an original animated family film that made $1.5 million from previews and is looking at a $15-17 million opening that would be among the lowest ever for DreamWorks Animation despite strong reviews, holding a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score. More to come..