That is the highest, non-summer Monday (i.e., Mondays before summer starts in mid-May, when kids are out of school) box office gross. Previous holder is Spider Man ten years ago with $11M.
The Avengers now holds the highest 3-day and 4-day box office grosses, along with:
- Highest Saturday box office gross
- Highest Sunday box office gross
- Highest per-theater average
- Fastest to $150M
- Fastest to $200M
It’s going to break more records by next weekend.