Avengers: Endgame Breaks India Advance Ticket Booking Record
The latest Marvel movie Avengers: Endgame has smashed
Indian box office records for a foreign film ahead of its Friday release by
selling more than 2.5 million advance tickets, the country's main ticket trader
said.
Demand for the 22nd film in the
Marvel series has been so high that some cinemas are planning round the clock
screenings, said Ashish Saksena, chief operating officer of BookMyShow,
an online booking platform which announced the sales figures.
With a ticket sold every 18
seconds, cinemas across the usually Bollywood-mad country "are doing
everything possible to match fans' demand for the film," Saksena said.
And with one day to go, the film
could be on track to break the record set by the 2017 Indian film Baahubali
2, which notched up 3.3 million advance sales and went on to become the
highest-grossing Indian movie, earning $156 million worldwide.
Avengers: Endgame opened in parts
of Asia and Europe on Wednesday and releases in India, the United States and
Canada on Friday.
The movie is releasing in
multiple languages across India including English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu.
Trade pundits have said the
three-hour epic could become the first billion-dollar opening weekend in
history.
The first part of the saga,
Avengers: Infinity War, was the previous record holder, with less than two
million advanced tickets sold.
The previous 21 Marvel films have
earned about $19 billion globally.
"Anticipation for Avengers
is extremely high and it will record unprecedented numbers in India,"
Akshaye Rathi, a Mumbai-based trade analyst told AFP.
"Craze for the movie is at
par with Baahubali 2 and it will break records set by other Hollywood and
Bollywood films by a long mile," Rathi added.
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