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Disney-Marvel Scores Another Number 1 Friday with “Ant-Man” Sequel

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Black Panther, Infinity War, Deadpool 2, and so on. It’s just been a Disney-Marvel summer of movies that are designed to take our minds off of reality of any kind.

Following that schedule, “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” which is not a Jack Lemmon-Shirley MacLaine movie about a stuck up guy and the off limits girl he loves, opened to a big $33.8 million Friday last night and is headed for an $85 million weekend.

Surfing in on the Marvel Universe of movies, this is a big success for Disney since the first “Ant Man” which did not feature The Wasp, had a $57 million opening weekend. The next episode, building on a theme, will be set in Darien, Connecticut.

 

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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