'Avengers: Endgame' ticket sales threaten to break the internet

Updated 4:30 p.m. EST with official statistics from Fandango.
Within an hour of Avengers: Endgame tickets going on sale, the sheer demand for tickets took its toll on Fandango, AMC, and the Marvel fandom at large. The AMC website was temporarily down, and Fandango put users on pause to handle traffic in the meantime.
Fandango reported later in the day that Avengers: Endgame broke the site's first day presale record, beating the previous record held by Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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