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In other times and circumstances this would be startling:

... Advance sales for “Avengers: The Age of Ultron” are equal to those of all the other Marvel Studios movies combined, online ticket broker Fandango reported Tuesday. ...

But this is the huge sequel of a huge super hero blockbuster. ...

Which means ... let me guess ... that Disney revenues and stock will be going up. Quite a lot.

Of course, Avengers' box office performance will likely overshadow Brad Bird's Tomorrowland and Pete Docter's Inside Out, but that's the way it is in Movieland. The Super Gargantuan gets more attention than the merely successful.

But all in all, Disney looks as though it will have a lot of movies coming out that will be dandy profit and merchandise spinners.