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Watch Pain And Gain Online They all have potential, but we’re not going to say ‘We got it back – make it.’ Iron Man 3, already a huge hit overseas, is preparing its American takeover this weekend. Technically you have to wait until Monday to know if a movie is a hit or not, but Disney executives are already sorting their cash into giant piles and picking out yachts to buy, because Iron Man 3 has been open in the United States for about 12 hours and is already a huge hit all over again.According to the early numbers at Variety, the threequel made $15.6 million from Thursday evening and midnight screenings, with estimates putting it at between $160-$180 million for the weekend-- and that's just domestically. By the time Monday rolls around the movie will likely have made more than $500 million worldwide, putting it pretty damn close to the $585 million Iron Man made worldwide in 2008… but in just 2 weeks in theaters.

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WATCH Oz The Great And Powerful ONLINE According to half of American moviegoers, yeah. A survey taken on April 26 by YouGov Omnibus, cited by The Hollywood Reporter, says 49% of Americans think trailers give away too much of the movie. On the other hand, only 19% of them said it made them less likely to see the movie, while 24% of them said it made them want to see the film more. That's clearly the logic used by Disney in marketing Iron Man 3, where shots from the film's big climactic scene have made up the core of the marketing, and we've been shown an elaborate action scene-- the destruction of Tony Stark's Malibu mansion-- from nearly every angle in the TV spots. But, as you can discuss in our spoilers post, there are a lot of surprises in Iron Man 3 that weren't revealed in the marketing at all-- and the moments land a lot better because you don't know they're coming.Sure, it's nothing compare to the Iron Man suit that's crash-landed in his garage. But Harley Keener (Ty Simpkins) is definitely a Tony Stark-in-training, and that potato gun-- which seems to be built out of the tubes.

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Let us know your own thoughts about marketing in the comments, and if you're planning to see Star Trek Into Darkness-- or Iron Man 3, for that matter-- do yourself a favor, and just shut off the marketing until you can see the whole thing. Tony Stark has made a career out of making the rest of us jealous. Sure, in Iron Man 3 he's suffering a bit more than usual, experiencing PTSD after the battle of New York seen in The Avengers and up against a terrifying foe in The Mandarin, who responds to threats by blowing up Tony's cliffside Malibu manor. But as Tony says himself in one of the film's trailers, "I'm Tony Stark. I build neat stuff, I've got a great girl, and occasionally I save the world."