Avengers: Endgame Encore’s dominant 99.7% market-implied odds stem from its robust $26 million domestic opening, fueled by added post-credits scenes previewing December’s Avengers: Doomsday and capitalizing on enduring fan nostalgia for the 2019 blockbuster. The re-release outperformed new wide entries including Brad Pitt’s Heart of the Beast, Robert Pattinson’s Primetime, and Universal’s Forgotten Island, drawing strong premium-large-format attendance and international support that pushed its global weekend total to $86 million. Traders view the gap over second-place Resident Evil as decisive for the #1 spot. An upset would require substantial revisions to Sunday estimates or an unforeseen late surge from one of the new releases, though historical re-release patterns and current tracking make that outcome improbable.