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6 box-office records that 'Avengers: Endgame' has already broken on its quest to become the biggest movie of all time

"Avengers: Endgame" is on its way to becoming the biggest movie of all time.

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"Avengers: Endgame" is on its way to becoming the biggest blockbuster movie of all time.

To get there, it needs to cross the $2.8 billion that "Avatar" grossed , and that's before inflation ("Avatar" grossed $3.3 billion after adjusting). "Endgame" is at $2.26 billion and is the second-highest-grossing movie of all time. It still has a ways to go, but if any movie can do it, it's this one.

No matter what happens, though, "Endgame" has cemented itself as a massive blockbuster that is breaking box-office records at an unprecedented pace. We've rounded up each one below.

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"Avengers: Endgame" passed 2015's "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" in both of these records for the movie-ticket service, Fandango.

"Endgame" was selling five times as many pre-sale tickets through Fandango as last year's "Avengers: Infinity War" at the same time last month.

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Fandango told Business Insider that it had to create a "holding room" to service customers on the first day that tickets went on sale for "Endgame," which it had never done before, to avoid the site crashing.

"You could tell from the first 15 minutes of tickets going online it was going to be bigger than 'The Force Awakens,'" Fandango president Paul Yanover told Business Insider. "Because we can't increase our scale to respond to a three-hour window every couple of years, we created a system to have an orderly management of the situation. People had to wait there's nothing we can do about that but nothing crashed."

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AMC Theatres, the biggest theater chain in the world, announced last month that not only had "Endgame" broken its pre-sale record, but that it would open some of its theaters for three straight days to accommodate the high demand.

17 AMC Theatres stayed open round the clock Thursday night through Sunday during the movie's opening weekend last month. 29 were open non-stop from Thursday to Friday, and 18 were open Thursday through Saturday.

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"Endgame" opened two days earlier in China than in the US, and had the country's biggest opening day ever (it didn't have the biggest opening weekend, though).

"Endgame" grossed $107.2 million in its opening day, and is the biggest Hollywood movie in China of all time. It's already made $575 million there. "Avengers: Infinity War" made $359 million in China during its entire run.

But it's unlikely to surpass the biggest movie ever in China, "Wolf Warrior 2," which made $854 million.

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It also broke the record for the biggest box office in Thursday previews with $60 million and biggest domestic opening day ever for $157 million. It beat "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" in all of these.

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"Endgame" opened worldwide with $1.2 billion, the first movie to ever hit $1 billion globally in its first weekend in theaters. It's also the fastest movie to reach $1 billion , in just five days.

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"Endgame" hit $2 billion globally in just 11 days , the fastest movie to ever do so. Can it hit $3 billion? If it does, it will be the only movie to ever do so (before inflation).

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