I'm not a huge Marvel Cinematic Universe groupie, but I follow it some.
Anyway, Avengers Infinity Wars is of course out this weekend, and just became the largest grossing opening weekend in history, passing Force Awakens. Only by a couple of million, but that's unadjusted and is likely to go up some. Moreover, worldwide opening weekend is $630 million, and they haven't even opened in China yet.
Not really important, I just find the success of Marvel to be interesting. This is coming off Black Panther, which is over $1.3 billion, and on the heels of success after success over 18 films and 10 years. Total gross for the series is getting up to $16 billion on just ticket sales. Goodness knows what the merchandising comes in at for all 18 movies and all those characters.
It's like UCLA's title run, without the rampant cheating.
IMO what's most interesting is that in the 80s they couldn't buy a hit with their huge library of characters and stories, went bankrupt, and had to sell off lots of their properties like selling the X Men to Fox, Spider Man to Sony, etc. And THOSE companies coulnd't make a buck at them either until the last 10 years. I just find that evolution interesting.
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