Avengers: Endgame Encore is headed to Disney+, bringing the updated cut of the 2019 blockbuster home with "new scenes and color grading," according to the streaming service's official website. The streaming debut follows the film's limited theatrical run, which began on September 25 and turned the Infinity Saga's finale into one of the year's biggest box office stories all over again.
Encore is a refreshed edition of Avengers: Endgame rather than a straight re-release, running about four minutes longer than the original film. Its additional sequences were shot during the production of Avengers: Doomsday, and Disney+ has said the added scenes link Endgame to Doomsday, giving viewers something extra to discover without detailing how many scenes were added or what happens in them. The service bills the edition as the movie audiences already love with a few extra surprises, and it leaves the original cut untouched alongside it on the platform.
The film it refreshes needs little introduction. Released in 2019 from directors Anthony and Joe Russo, Endgame brought the Infinity Saga — the storyline that began with 2008's Iron Man — to its conclusion with Thanos' defeat, assembling nearly every hero the MCU had introduced across more than a decade. It remains the defining ensemble chapter of the franchise, and its closing stretch set up both the farewell to Tony Stark and Steve Rogers' final choice.
The theatrical run showed how much appetite remains for the film seven years on. Encore opened to $86 million worldwide, pushing Endgame's lifetime total to $2.885 billion, and it has since crossed $2.9 billion worldwide as it closes in on Avatar's all-time record.
The Final Marvel Stop Before Avengers: Doomsday Opens
Its arrival also completes the runway to the MCU's next chapter. With VisionQuest now concluded, Encore is the final Marvel release before Avengers: Doomsday opens in theaters on December 18, when Robert Downey Jr. returns to the franchise as Doctor Doom, with Chris Evans among the key players confirmed to return alongside him. Doomsday begins the Multiverse Saga's endgame, which Avengers: Secret Wars will officially close in 2027.
Disney+ has previously laid out 15 Marvel movies and shows for audiences to rewatch before Doomsday. The list reaches back to X-Men and X2, runs through Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, and takes in Loki, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Captain America: Brave New World, Deadpool & Wolverine, Thunderbolts** and *The Fantastic Four: First Steps — with Encore now standing as the freshest way to revisit the saga's peak.
Avengers: Endgame Encore arrives on Disney+ on Friday, November 13. The original Avengers: Endgame, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and released on April 26, 2019, is already streaming on the service.
Source: Disney+
