Doomsday typically indicates disaster, but for Marvel Studios that term is forecasting booming box office.
Disney reports that the next entry in the sprawling Marvel Cinematic Universe “Avengers: Doomsday,” has already made $50 million in domestic pre-sales, three months before the movie’s Dec. 18 release date. The studio reported that more than 70% of those pre-sales are for Infinity Vision tickets, emphasizing the audience’s appetite to see for premium large format screens.
The news was announced Wednesday by Walt Disney Company senior executive VP & Chief Financial Officer, Hugh Johnston, at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference.
Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, “Avengers: Doomsday” sees massive assembly of MCU superheroes, including the Avengers, Fantastic Four, Thunderbolts and the original “X-Men,” teaming up to face their most formidable foe yet: Victor Von Doom. Robert Downey Jr. returns to play the franchise’s new Big Bad after Tony Stark/Iron Man, died at at the end of “Avengers: Endgame.”
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