Avengers fans assemble! In major Marvel news, Disney is planning to put premium-format tickets on sale for Avengers: Doomsday next week.
The studio plans to announce that domestic tickets for the eagerly anticipated Avengers franchise sequel will go on sale July 20, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.
The studio will open ticket sales five months early for Infinity Vision theaters — the large-format designation that the studio has announced for select Doomsday theater screens. Disney created the Infinity Vision brand in the wake of Warner Bros. locking down Imax theaters for Dune Part III for two weeks after both films are released on Dec. 18.
The early ticket sale plan also comes with a runtime for the film — 165 minutes (two hours and 45 minutes). While the film’s final cut is unlikely to be locked this far in advance, selling tickets on a set schedule means the film’s runtime can only change by a small margin. At 165 minutes, the film would be longer than 2018’s Infinity War (149 minutes) but shorter than 2019’s Endgame (181 minutes).
Disney will also offer Infinity Vision tickets for a re-release of Avengers: Endgame coming Sept. 25 (titled Avengers: Endgame Encore). Endgame is the second-highest grossing movie of all time ($2.8 billion globally), coming just behind 2009’s Avatar.
Marvel declined to comment.
The sale will launch a few days ahead of Marvel’s presentation at San Diego Comic-Con on July 25, which is expected to unveil the film’s first full trailer when the MCU returns to Hall H. An online release of the trailer also seems likely, particularly given the ticket sales plan.
The move follows Universal generating buzz by putting select Imax tickets for The Odyssey on sale a full year in advance.
Doomsday reunites Earth’s Mightiest Heroes as they attempt to save the multiverse from a new villain, Doctor Doom, played by former Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. The cast also includes Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Chris Evans (Steve Rogers), Paul Rudd (Ant-Man), Pedro Pascal (Mister Fantastic), Anthony Mackie (Captain America), Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Florence Pugh (Yelena Belova), Sebastian Stan (Winter Soldier), Vanessa Kirby (Invisible Woman), Simu Liu (Shang-Chi), Letitia Wright (Black Panther), Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique) and more.
The film is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and opens in theaters Dec. 18.
