Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are back on top.

Avengers: Endgame has officially reclaimed its title as the highest-grossing movie of all time, passing James Cameron’s Avatar following the successful Avengers: Endgame Encore theatrical rerelease.

The 2019 Marvel Studios blockbuster has now earned approximately $2.925 billion worldwide, narrowly surpassing Avatar, which currently sits at approximately $2.923 billion globally.

It marks another chapter in a box office battle that has gone back and forth between the two films for years.

Avatar originally held the worldwide box office record for nearly a decade before Avengers: Endgame surpassed it during its historic theatrical run in 2019.

James Cameron’s sci-fi epic eventually took the crown back following another theatrical rerelease, pushing Endgame back into second place.

Now, Marvel has returned the favor.

Disney and Marvel brought Endgame back to theaters with Avengers: Endgame Encore ahead of the upcoming release of Avengers: Doomsday. The rerelease has generated more than $126 million worldwide, enough to push the Avengers past the Na’vi once again.

The performance also shows that audiences remain interested in Marvel’s biggest team-up event more than seven years after its original release.

Endgame served as the culmination of more than a decade of Marvel Cinematic Universe storytelling, bringing together heroes including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow, Spider-Man, Black Panther and many more for the final battle against Thanos.

Marvel is hoping to recapture that massive event-film atmosphere with Avengers: Doomsday.

Anthony and Joe Russo are returning to direct the upcoming Avengers film, which will once again assemble characters from across the MCU. Robert Downey Jr. will also make his highly anticipated return to the franchise, this time portraying Victor von Doom instead of Tony Stark.

The success of the Endgame rerelease could be an encouraging sign for Marvel heading into Doomsday, demonstrating that audiences are still willing to turn out for an Avengers-scale theatrical event.

For now, however, Avengers: Endgame can once again call itself the biggest movie in box office history — at least until Avatar gets another opportunity to take the crown back.

Cooper is set to star as Duke in Paramount’s upcoming G.I. Joe movie, which will be directed by Danny McBride. The new film is expected to serve as a fresh reimagining of the franchise rather than continue the previous live-action movies.

McBride will make his feature directorial debut on the project and co-wrote the screenplay with Jeff Fradley and John Carcieri.

Cooper reportedly emerged as McBride’s top choice for Duke, with the actor coming aboard after reading the screenplay and meeting with McBride about the project.

Despite McBride’s comedy background with projects including Eastbound & Down and The Righteous Gemstones, his G.I. Joe movie won’t be a comedy. McBride has previously described his approach as a more grounded combination of action and suspense.

The story will follow Duke and a group of Joes into Springfield, a seemingly ordinary town that is secretly controlled by Cobra. The location has deep roots in G.I. Joe comics and could give the reboot a much different feel from the franchise’s previous globe-spanning movies.

Cooper becomes the latest actor to take on Duke in live action. Channing Tatum previously played the character in 2009’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and returned for 2013’s G.I. Joe: Retaliation.

The new movie will also move forward independently from the previously planned Transformers and G.I. Joe crossover. That project, which was teased at the end of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, is no longer in development.

Cooper and McBride have worked together before, most recently when Cooper appeared in the final season of HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones.

Additional casting has not yet been announced, and Paramount has not set a release date for the new G.I. Joe movie.

Avengers: Doomsday is shaping up to be another massive Marvel Studios event, but fans apparently won’t need to prepare for another three-hour Endgame-sized marathon.

Co-director Anthony Russo has revealed that Avengers: Doomsday currently runs approximately two and a half hours.

Speaking with Fandango about the challenge of bringing together the film’s enormous collection of characters, Russo described Doomsday as a focused and propulsive story despite its scale.

“It’s a two-and-a-half-hour movie or so,”

Russo said while explaining how the filmmakers structured the story around a central narrative.

The “or so” is important, as Marvel Studios has not officially announced a final locked theatrical runtime. Earlier reports had placed Doomsday at around two hours and 45 minutes, but Russo’s latest comments suggest audiences could ultimately be looking at something closer to 150 minutes.

If that holds, Doomsday would be remarkably close in length to Avengers: Infinity War.

The original The Avengers clocked in at 2 hours and 23 minutes in 2012, while Avengers: Age of Ultron was slightly shorter at 2 hours and 21 minutes.

The Russo brothers significantly increased the scale with Avengers: Infinity War, which ran 2 hours and 29 minutes. Avengers: Endgame then became the longest Avengers movie by a wide margin with a runtime of 3 hours and 1 minute.

That gives the franchise the following runtime progression:

The Avengers — 2 hours, 23 minutes

Avengers: Age of Ultron — 2 hours, 21 minutes

Avengers: Infinity War — 2 hours, 29 minutes

Avengers: Endgame — 3 hours, 1 minute

Avengers: Doomsday — approximately 2 hours, 30 minutes

The comparison with Infinity War may be the most interesting. Doomsday is expected to juggle another enormous ensemble while bringing together characters from across different corners of the Marvel universe, yet its current runtime is only about one minute longer than Infinity War.

Joe and Anthony Russo previously demonstrated with Infinity War that a huge collection of characters can be managed within a fast-moving story without requiring a three-hour runtime.

Whether Doomsday ultimately lands exactly at 150 minutes remains to be seen, but Anthony Russo’s comments provide the clearest indication yet of what audiences should expect when Marvel’s next Avengers event arrives in theaters.

Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters December 18, 2026.