If you’ve been meaning to check out Avengers: Endgame Encore but weren’t willing to shell out the cost of a movie ticket for a film you’ve already seen — good news. If you have a Disney Plus subscription, you can actually catch it on the streaming service as of Friday. The Encore Edition was a pretty significant box office hit, making about $126 million globally. Its domestic gross was comparatively modest, only making $36.2 million, but it made a lot of money overseas. It’s currently the fourth-highest-grossing re-release of all time worldwide, behind Titanic, which made over $340 million during its 2012 3D re-release; The Lion King, which also got a 3D re-release the year before; and the now-infamous 1997 Star Wars: A New Hope Special Edition.
Nothing as radical as Greedo shooting at Han in the Mos Eisley cantina made its way into the Encore Edition of Endgame— we ran down the major changes here. The movie was kept relatively intact, but linking material to Avengers: Doomsday was added. Both versions of Endgame will be streaming as part of the Marvel “Countdown to Doomsday” collection on Disney Plus. It contains all the movies and TV shows deemed essential to understanding Avengers: Doomsday.
Those movies and shows are:
- X-Men (2000)
- X2 (2003)
- Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
- The Avengers (2012)
- Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
- Avengers: Endgame (2019)
- Loki, Seasons 1 and 2 (2021–2023)
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
- Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
- Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
- Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
- Thunderbolts* (2025)
- The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
Are there any films you’re surprised to see left off this list? Avengers: Doomsday, which has a newly announced cast member, hits theaters on December 18.
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