Who really needs any other studios when you've got Marvel around? About a year after Marvel's "The Avengers" set the record for biggest weekend in box office history, "Iron Man 3" comes along to provide the second best. There's not much precedence for this sort of thing – spinning a successful franchise ("Iron Man") into another, more lucrative brand ("The Avengers") and then back out. So while some expected "Iron Man 3" to be seen by the exact same audience as "The Avengers," that simply wasn't a realistic proposition. Maybe some people are "Captain America" fans, and some are "Hulk" fans. And most love "Iron Man." These numbers surpass the $169 million taken in by 2011's "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hollows Pt. 2" to give Marvel seven of the top twenty five opening weekends in box office history, a run of dominance that's only expected to continue through 2015's "The Avengers 2." The worldwide box office also continues to buoy "Iron Man 3," with the numbers reaching...
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