Avengers: Doomsday presales top $50 million as new Doctor Doom poster appears

Marvel Studios' Avengers: Doomsday is generating what industry trackers describe as unprecedented advance interest, with U.S. presales passing the $50 million mark months before the film opens, according to a report by Dark Horizons. The milestone arrived as Italy opened its own ticket presales on October 5.

What the presale numbers show

According to Dark Horizons, Doomsday became the first film to cross $40 million in domestic presales at this stage, a figure later followed by an announced $50 million total. Presales initially opened in July restricted to premium large-format (PLF) screens before expanding to general ticket availability in mid-August, the outlet reported.

Dark Horizons compared the pace to Sony's Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which it said reached $40 million in domestic presales roughly 40 days before its release, achieving that milestone within less than a week of tickets going on sale. Doomsday reached the same figure with about 100 days still left before its premiere, per the outlet's report published September 9.

Italy opens presales on October 5

In Italy, presales opened at one minute past midnight between October 4 and 5, Sky Tg24 reported, ahead of the film's local theatrical release on December 16. Tickets there are being sold through a dedicated website set up for the release.

Sky Tg24 noted the presale launch followed a limited September 24 re-release of Avengers: Endgame (2019) in Italian cinemas, which the outlet said earned 2,308,618 euros in its first four days back on screens.

New poster puts Doctor Doom's witches in focus

A promotional poster being distributed at Comic-Con Málaga shows Doctor Doom standing on a staircase before his castle, flanked by three masked figures dressed in green, orange and purple robes, according to Read Dork. The outlet said the witches' faces remain covered, so their identities and the actors playing them have not been confirmed.

Read Dork noted that one of the three witches was previously glimpsed kneeling before Doom in a ScreenX trailer, while ComingSoon.net reported that the trio's costumes were first shown publicly at the D23 fan convention in August.

Confirmed cast and release dates

Robert Downey Jr. is confirmed to play Victor von Doom, with the film directed by Anthony and Joe Russo from a screenplay by Stephen McFeely, according to both Read Dork and ComingSoon.net. ComingSoon.net also listed Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Florence Pugh, Anthony Mackie, Vanessa Kirby and David Harbour among the confirmed cast, describing a plot built around interdimensional incursions that cause three universes to collide.

What is still unknown

• The identities of the three Latverian Witches shown masked on the poster have not been officially confirmed.
• Marvel has not released a full cast list; only a subset of actors has been publicly confirmed by the studio so far, per ComingSoon.net and Read Dork.
• Exact global box-office projections have not been issued; current figures refer only to domestic (U.S.) advance ticket sales reported by Dark Horizons.