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Disney’s “The Avengers” has earned almost universally positive reviews and made $200 million in its first weekend. Yet for some in the adoption community, a joke in the film goes too far.

Wow. It certainly didn’t look that way after Thursday’s disappointing midnight screenings, but here we are. “The Avengers” has broken the all-time opening weekend box office record with a phenomenal $200.3M. That’s at least $30M more than the most optimistic projections from box office analysts.

The record-smashing tentpole now has a shot at debuting to $170 million, the biggest opening of all time in North America; the pic has earned $334.3 million internationally for a whopping global total of $414.8 million.

The superhero saga "The Avengers" is living up to its blockbuster buzz with $178.4 million in overseas ticket sales days before it opens in U.S. theaters.

Four wide releases are vying for your box office dollars this weekend, but they are in the unenviable position of having to open a week before The Avengers. But hey, it's better to open the week before than a week after. In the romantic comedy The Five-Year Engagement, Jason Segel and Emily Blunt star as an engaged couple who puts off saying I do for a couple of years. The movie will mine their obstructions in getting to the altar for laughs until the very last frame.

It looks like studios using short teasers to promote the trailer is becoming a trend, and they are here to stay. I first noticed this when Fox released three slight different short teasers (over three days!) to inform us that the Prometheus trailer is coming out. Of course, like a starving person with our first meal in days, we gobbled that up and spilled much digital ink about those teasers, dissecting them until there's really nothing left to say. And we liked it. It's the prequel to Alien, after all.

Yes, The Avengers movie is an actual, real thing! And now you can watch the first official trailer for some proof.

In a battle of summer movie heroes, Captain America topped Harry Potter this weekend at the box office. Paramount Pictures' "Captain America: The First Avenger" opened at No. 1 with $65.8 million, according to Sunday studio estimates. The Marvel Comics superhero adventure sets up next summer's all-star blockbuster "The Avengers."

Just in time to kick off the Con, Marvel has released the films first official teaser poster for Joss Whedon's "The Avengers."

It's a Marvel movie so you knew it was coming, but still: Despite studio efforts to keep it from press in early screenings, a teaser sequence appearing at the end of Captain America: The First Avenger has leaked online.