Disney Puts ‘Captain America’ 3 on Collision Course With ‘Superman’
Posted in: UncategorizedWalt Disney Co. has thrown down the gauntlet at Warner Bros. by scheduling the next installment of its Captain America film series to open on the same day its competitor releases a combined Superman-Batman movie.
Disney’s Marvel unit said a previously unidentified film scheduled for May 6, 2016, would be the third film in its Captain America series. The second picture, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” set a record for an April debut last weekend with ticket sales of $95 million in the U.S. and Canada.
Pitting superheroes against each other flies in the face of recent efforts by studios to spread out competing films and avoid cannibalizing ticket sales. Plans by Disney and Time Warner Inc.’s film division to come out with big pictures on the same day suggest competition for top dates remains fierce.
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