Avengers: Infinity War flexed its considerable muscle anew this weekend in North American theatres, pulling in a robust $112.5mn and leaving other top films in its dust, according to industry estimates.
The three-day take by the Disney/Marvel superhero epic gave it the second-highest second weekend of all time, behind only Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Only five movies have hit the $100mn mark in their second weekends, according to Variety.com.Avengers 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 powerful purple alien Thanos (Josh Brolin).
Globally, Avengers has hit the $1bn mark in just 11 days -- the fastest ever -- and it has yet to open in China.
But with its enormous success, Avengers has left little oxygen for its competitors. The second-highest North American grosser, new rom-com Overboard, trailed in its distant wake at just $14.8mn. Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez star in the Lionsgate remake of a 1987 movie about a struggling single mother who persuades a rich playboy with amnesia that they are married.
In third spot was Paramount's sci-fi horror film A Quiet Place, at $7.6mn. The near-wordless production stars actor/director John Krasinski and his real-life wife Emily Blunt as a couple silently struggling to protect their family from blind aliens that track their prey by sound.
STX Films' comedy I Feel Pretty, starring Amy Schumer as a self-conscious woman who suffers a head injury and then sees herself as ravishingly beautiful, was fourth at $4.9mn.
And in fifth was Rampage, from Warner Bros., at $4.6mn. The film follows Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson as a primatologist who befriends an albino gorilla, which grows to enormous size after a rogue experiment before teaming up with Johnson against invading monsters.
Rounding out the top 10 were:
Tully ($3.2mn)
Black Panther ($3.1mn)
Truth or Dare ($1.9mn)
Super Troopers 2 ($1.8mn)
Bad Samaritan ($1.8mn).
