SUMMER SUPERHEROES: FROM THE AVENGERS TO THE FOUR

An impressive summer season of superhero flicks will be complete with today's release of Fantastic Four.  The series got off to a spectacular start April 30-May 1 with the opening of Avengers: Age of Ultron, which pulled in $84.5 million, besting the $80.8 million debut of the first Avengers film in 2012, according to Disney estimates, which predict the Ultron movie will eventually beat the first Avengers’ all-time record of $207.4 million.

The summer’s supers schedule resumed on May 15 with Mad Max: Fury Road, which was  followed by Jurassic World (June 12), Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out (June 19), Terminator: Genisys (July 1), and Ant-Man (July 17).