



Box office records beware. After its first weekend of International openings, Marvel Studios (and Disney) are looking to have their second $1 billion hit in a row, withoverseas ticket sales have raked in over $195 million, beating the $185 million International opening of. You heard that right,just had a bigger International opening than. Hence being Marvel's next $1 billion blockbuster.This weekendis set to open domestically and projected numbers are in the ballpark of the $150 to $175 million range but that could be low-balling the threequel's actual domestic weekend opening in the states.has the domestic opening box office record with $207 million. Maybefalls short, maybe not, but if the International opening numbers are any clue to its performance then' domestic weekend opening recordin jeopardy.It's safe to speculate thattook Marvel Studios to the next level in the movie industry and until its ensemble movie, it had yet to achieve a $1 billion worldwide hit. The firsttook in $585 million worldwide,nabbed $623 million,made $263 million,grabbed $449 million andtook in $368 million. Of courseis their first with over $1.5 billion worldwide.Not a bad tally for their stable of films, overall, but two things are clear based on all these numbers and's projection: 1.) The power of Disney definitely showed up with, and now, when they were able to take over full control of Marvel Studios' movies and without other studios still fulfilling pre-Disney buyout agreements. 2.)was the turning point of Marvel becoming a full-blown billion dollar per movie studio.See it once, see it twice, but definitely see