Welcome to I Want That, which is a podcast that focuses on the dynamic world of Disney merchants.

I'm Entertainment Writer Jim Hill.

And I'm Entertainment Writer and Designer Michelle Viale lead.

And this is our first show for May of 2019 and Avengers End

Games have been out in theaters for what 13 days at this point

smashing all sorts of box office records like

800 billion gagillion dollars well all sorts of box office records. Eight hundred billion billion dollars.

Well, 2.27 billion in worldwide ticket sales.

Only film that's made more than that of the box office

is James Cameron's avatar that eventually went on to sell

2.7 billion worth of tickets and if you talk with people at Disney.

They're kind of of two minds.

They would dearly love for end game

to pass Avatar's box office.

But again, it has to make another half a billion dollars.

But at the same time, just because Disney, back in March, finally acquired 20th century Fox, that means that Avatar is now a Disney franchise.

It gets complicated.

Yeah, yeah it does.

And another thing frankly that is also kind of complicating the Avengers being able to get that $500 million

dollars it needs to pass.

Avatar is the live action version of Aladdin,

which arrives in theaters on May 24th.

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