Avengers: Doomsday’s Presales Have Just Answered The Movie’s Big Box Office Question
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Avengers: Doomsday's first reports about its presales have answered the big question around what audience interest in the release and its story look like in a way that bodes well for the MCU and its next steps forward. There's a huge amount of curiosity around what the MCU timeline is set to do next, given the scale and scope of what's been teased with Avengers: Doomsday's story, and given the return of both Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. has been confirmed for the movie.
With that said, the anticipation around Avengers: Doomsday has also been met with some concern, both from those who are unsure about how the MCU will handle releasing an Avengers movie of this scale seven years after the series' last installment, and from those who see the MCU's more divided results in the past few years as a potential extra challenge for Doomsday to navigate.
Now Avengers: Doomsday's presales have begun, though, the first box office reports for the movie have also come in. While Doomsday is of course not yet at the billion dollar benchmark or any of the higher box office numbers possible for the film, the amount it's already reportedly made certainly supports the idea it will be a successful installment for the MCU overall.
Avengers: Doomsday's Presales Have Confirmed A Major Level Of Interest In The MCU Movie
As we draw closer to Avengers: Doomsday's December 2026 release, presales have become available for the film in some areas, allowing the movie to begin earning its box office results before it's even debuted, which reflects the interest that the current MCU landscape and trailers for Avengers: Doomsday have helped set up for the upcoming Marvel movie.
The picture this paints for Doomsday is a promising one, as Avengers: Doomsday has already reportedly drawn a domestic presale result that has crossed the $50 million threshold, providing the film with a fair starting point for its theatrical box office results. Presales this early also notably reflect a decidedly passionate interest in being able to see Doomsday on its release day and in its first showings, since the film's debut is actively three months away right now.
Given there have been concerns about whether Avengers: Doomsday can court a considerable audience given the more mixed results of the MCU in recent history, this early milestone combats these fan fears in a key way, by showing that interest in the film is to a degree wherein passionate prospective viewers have already provided the movie with a box office that's higher in presales alone than the full box office results of many 2026 films.
Avengers: Doomsday's Domestic Presales Have Already Earned It A Box Office Higher Than Many 2026 Movies
Avengers: Doomsday being around the $50 million presale mark at this point in time - while no doubt far lower than the final box office result the film will net - still marks it as being roughly 2026's 55th most successful movie financially already (as per Box Office Mojo), putting it above a wide range of movies for the year in this regard already.
For example, a $50 million total places Doomsday financially above The Strangers: Chapter 3 (which made $11 million), I Love Boosters ($9 million), Hokum ($25 million), The Dog Stars ($34 million), and Return to Silent Hill (which comes closest thanks to its $47 million worldwide box office).
This also means Avengers: Doomsday is very much on its prospective way to the $1 billion mark in terms of its global box office, since it seems very possible that the film's worldwide presales will fall into the nine-figure range, which would tee up the 2026 MCU movie for major fiscal success, and further prove the film to be a major event movie before it even arrives in cinemas.
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