VIDEO : Avengers Beat 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'

Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy congratulated Marvel on "Avengers: Infinity War" surpassing "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" as the film with the biggest opening weekend at the US box office. A photo on the "Star Wars" official Twitter account showed a lightsaber being handed off to the "Avengers" character Iron Man. "From a Galaxy far, far away ... to Earth's Mightiest Heroes," the photo caption reads. According to Disney, the studio behind both franchises, "Infinity War" raked in an estimated $258.2 million domestically this past weekend, flying by the $248 million that made "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" the box office champ in 2015.