'Avatar' beats 'Avengers: Endgame' to take back highest-grossing title

In the biggest, most shocking box office comeback of all time, the 2009 movie Avatar returned to theaters in China Friday and took back its highest-grossing crown from 2019's Avengers: Endgame. That's right — the movie about blue aliens living on a lushly vegetative moon with a nearly unobtainable mineral called unobtanium reemerged to beat out the magnum opus of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Before the re-release of Avatar, both movies had made over $2.7 billion at the box office globallyAvengers: Endgame held its lead by less than $8 million. By Saturday night in China, Avatar had earned an estimated $8.9 million to take the lead as the highest grossing movie globally of all time. It's expected to continue widening that thin gap with projected earnings of around $58 million for its current theatrical run, Deadline reported. Read more...More about Movies, Disney, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Entertainment, and Movies Tv Shows