# A Seven-Year-Old Marvel Movie Just Reclaimed the Box Office Crown > Avengers: Endgame Encore added new footage and cast introductions to pull in another $126 million worldwide, enough to push the film back past Avatar as the highest-grossing movie of all time. - Source: VUUQUE - Canonical URL: https://vuuque.com/article/avengers-endgame-encore-box-office-record - Author: VUUQUE Editorial - Section: Business & Work - Published: 2026-10-04T22:44:14.648Z - Updated: 2026-10-04T22:44:14.648Z - Tags: Avengers Endgame, Box Office, Marvel Studios, Film Industry --- Disney and Marvel Studios re-released Avengers: Endgame on September 25, 2026, seven years after its original theatrical run, under the title Avengers: Endgame Encore. The rerelease added new footage teasing Avengers: Doomsday along with fresh introductions from Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans, and opened to $26 million domestically and $86 million worldwide, the third-best rerelease debut ever recorded. ## Enough to retake the record Even with a steep second-weekend drop of more than 80% domestically, the rerelease added roughly $126 million globally to the film's total, pushing its lifetime gross to $2.9255 billion and edging past Avatar's $2.9237 billion to reclaim the title of highest-grossing film of all time. The result is notable given how widely available Endgame has been on streaming for years; box office analyst David A. Gross noted that rereleases typically bring in less than $10 million, making this one a significant outlier. ## A summer that didn't settle the franchise question The rerelease's success lands amid a record $4.76 billion domestic summer box office in 2026. Franchise titles performed strongly, with Toy Story 5 earning $1.14 billion and Spider-Man: Brand New Day reaching $2.5 billion, but original films including The Odyssey, Obsession and Backrooms also ranked among the year's top earners. The mixed results suggest Hollywood still doesn't have a clear read on whether audiences are more reliably drawn to established intellectual property or genuinely new stories, even as Endgame's encore run shows just how much life a well-loved franchise entry still has left in it. --- Originally published by VUUQUE. Free to cite with attribution and a link to https://vuuque.com/article/avengers-endgame-encore-box-office-record.