By Walt Hickey Box Office Forecast Box office prediction is a difficult component of the film industry accounting, but Endgame’s effect on the forecast certainly felt like a hurricane intensifying on approach. In early April, Variety said it was on pace for a $200 million to $260 million opening. By a few days before the premiere, that forecast was hauled up to $250 million to $268 million, while the eventual domestic total hit $357 million. This isn’t the first time the Marvel Cinematic Universe outperformed: based on one database of box office projections, the average MCU movie since 2012’s