In the span of just a few weeks, we saw two of the most adored franchises of our time reach a concluding chapter. But while Avengers: Endgame was a triumph, Game of Thrones’ final days was dissatisfying. There’s good reason why these two beloved stories came to such utterly different conclusions.

Avengers: Endgame: Infinity Money: No More Pee Breaks has been the number one movie in the country for the last three weeks since it was released, making over $700M domestically (and around $2.5B globally). It's been a hit with audiences and critics (though there has been some controversy over a few things, like Thor's physical transformation and Black Widow's ultimate fate).

"Avengers: Endgame" is smashing all kinds of box office records in China. The Disney (DIS) and Marvel movie pulled in $18.3 million in China over the weekend, bringing its total earnings to $603 million and cementing its place as the country's highest-grossing foreign film ever, according to industry tracker Ent Group. "Endgame" is only the third movie — and the first foreign title — to cross the $600 million mark in China.

In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, it was revealed that Captain America's love, Peggy Carter, was married and had two kids. According to Avengers: Endgame writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, the man she married was the Captain America from the main MCU timeline who went back in time at the end of the film.

The Avengers have restored the MCU thanks to their Endgame victory, but to do it, they destroyed a Guardian of the Galaxy's future. Sure, Star-Lord is the reason Thanos won the Infinity War, but the life he's now doomed to live is dark--even for Marvel.

Despite publicly voicing his opinion on “Avengers fatigue,” where he stated, “Not that I don’t love the movies. It’s just, come on guys, there are other stories to tell besides hyper-gonadal males without families doing death-defying things for two hours and wrecking cities in the process. It’s like, oy!” — James Cameron sent out a congratulatory message addressed to “Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios” for Avengers: Endgame‘s record setting box office success.

RURAL MASSACHUSETTS SEEMS A BILLION miles removed from where you’d imagine a Hollywood superstar would want to spend the waning days of winter. The trees are bare, refrozen slush piles reach head high, and even in the midafternoon, there’s a kind of dull gloaming. Wouldn’t you rather be in Santa Monica, or St. Lucia?

Avengers: Endgame poignantly concluded the first 11 years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe but it also specifically improved Avengers: Age of Ultron. Joe and Anthony Russo's $2-billion blockbuster (and counting) specifically included a time travel adventure to The Avengers, when three Infinity Stones were simultaneously in New York City, but several moments in Endgame also highlighted - and enhanced - Joss Whedon's 2015 sequel.

According to Anthony and Joe Russo, directors of Avengers: Endgame, Captain America was able to wield Mjolnir long before the most recent entry in the MCU. In an interview with the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the Russo Brothers were asked why Captain America was able to lift Thor’s hammer Mjolnir in Endgame when he seemingly couldn’t in Age of Ultron. The duo replied “In our heads, he was [always] able to wield it.”

If you’re one of those audience members who sits through the credits on a Marvel film — and usually there’s every reason to, in order to catch the post-credits tag — you have noticed the largest “blocks” of credits that scroll up the screen: the visual effects artists. VFX is, obviously, a huge component of the making of giant blockbusters. On Avengers: Infinity War, for example, only around 80 shots were untouched by the visual effects team, out of a total of more than 2,500 shots.

In October 2014, seven months before the release of the first Avengers sequel Age of Ultron, Marvel Studios announced that Avengers 3 and 4 would be titled Avengers: Infinity War Part I and Avengers: Infinity War Part II. This signaled that there was a massive, Thanos-infused story still to come, and that it would be too epic to contain to one single movie. Two-part conclusions aren’t exactly rare, and they’ve become more common in the 21st century—particularly with book adaptations like Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games. I

The new (and unusual) trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home that was released Monday offered the first glimpse of a Marvel superhero since the momentous events of Avengers: Endgame and the result is the biggest digital launch in the history of Sony Pictures Entertainment: 135.2 million views in 24 hours. The Columbia Pictures franchise starring Tom Holland as Spider-Man already held Sony’s 24-hour record (130 million views) set in January by the Far From Home teaser trailer.

Peter Parker's newest adventure will be a gateway to the next phase of the MCU.

Bet Joe Russo is irked that “popular” Oscar category got axed. The Avengers: Endgame director — who also helmed Infinity War and the last two Captain America movies with his brother, Anthony — told The Washington Post that he believes Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr., deserves an Academy Award for his performances across the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Iron Man may have seemed as polished as fresh power-armor, but the movie actually had no screenplay at all, says Jeff Bridges. The chaos freaked him out, until he decided to think of it as a $200 million student film.

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If you saw Avengers: Endgame and left the movie wondering who in the world Katherine Langford played, you’re not alone. The 13 Reasons Why actress was cast in a key mystery role last October, but ultimately she doesn’t appear in the finished film. And now we know why.

With the money making machine that is Avengers Endgame chugging toward breaking Avatar’s global box office record, Marvel has been working on what follows. Apparently, one of those discussions involves one Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

Avengers Endgame Becomes Second Most Grossing Film beats Titanic, Infinity War. 'Marvel Cinematic Universe' stands at the top Highest-grossing franchises.

No, it won’t be easy. But as the actor with Hollywood’s best comeback story wraps up his time as one of the century’s most iconic characters, now’s the time to try.