

For the first time in history, February recorded $1 billion ticket sales in North America, fueled largely by the success of Disney/Marvel's Black Panther which represented 43% or $428.8 million of the entire month's ticket sales.The highest-grossing films in China during the month were the domestic films Operation Red Sea, Monster Hunt 2, and Detective Chinatown 2, and the Indian film Secret Superstar. The previous global monthly box office record was set in July 2011 in North America with $1.395 billion and the previous highest-grossing month in China was August 2017 with CN¥7.38 billion ($1.17 billion). The record breaking number was largely attributed to the Lunar New Year holiday. China set an all-time biggest global one-month record in February with CN¥10.14 billion ($1.6 billion), calculating revenues from both local and foreign films.Two months after that, the MCU became the first film franchise to gross over $17 billion with the release of Ant-Man and the Wasp.

Two months later, the MCU became the first film franchise to gross more than $15 billion and $16 billion with the release of Avengers: Infinity War, which became the sixth billion-dollar-grossing film in the franchise, and also the first film in the franchise to earn $2 billion and the MCU also became the first film franchise with two billion-dollar-grossing films released in the same year (with Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War).
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The top films released in 2018 by worldwide gross are as follows: Highest-grossing films of 2018įantastic Beasts: The Crimes of GrindelwaldĪvengers: Infinity War grossed $2 billion worldwide, becoming the fourth movie to surpass the milestone, and 4th highest-grossing film of all time. See also: Lists of box office number-one films § 2018 Yet an impermanence, a threat of disappearance with the flick of a switch, hangs threateningly over independent films that are sent out on streaming." Highest-grossing films Others, which barely qualified as having theatrical releases (one theatre for a week), are now available to stream online, on demand, and are more widely accessible to viewers (albeit at home) than films playing at thousands of multiplexes. Several of the year’s best movies, such Shirkers and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, are being released by Netflix at the same time as (or just after) a limited theatrical run. The gap between what’s good and what’s widely available in theatres-between the cinema of resistance and the cinema of consensus-is wider than ever." He also stated, "In some cases, streaming has filled the gap. Richard Brody of The New Yorker said, "2018 has been a banner year for movies, but you’d never know it from a trip to a local multiplex-or from a glimpse at the Oscarizables.
