of "avengers: infinity war" is loaded with hollywood heavyweights and tonight they tell abc's chris connellyhe simple joys of saving the world. ♪ ♪ >> the story's like a freight train. that's what kind of blew me away. >> i saw it and i'm covered in goose bumps right now, i'm not even joking. >> reporter: brimming with battles and story-telling ambition, with marvel superheroes of every make and model slugging it out. >> as much as i complain about it, about getting the crap kicked out of me, i also love it. i love the grit and the grunt of it. i like a dirty fight. i like it, i like to watch it, i like to participate in it. >> we don't want to kill you, but we will. >> reporter: marvel's "avengers: infinity war" spans a multi verse with 19 names on the poster, more than 30 marvel men and women in the mix, the 19th film in that cinematic universe. >> we're going to show our conduct to the rest of the world, not what i imagined. >> reporter: from black panther to a new york city school bus. from the expanse of outer space to inside robert downey jr.'s iron man outfit. >> you're rocking a new

here's chris connelly. >> reporter: brimming with battle.erheroes of every make and model slugging it out. >> as much as i complain about getting the crap kicked out of me, i love it. >> reporter: marvel's "avengers: infinity war." >> when you said we were going to open wakanda up to the rest of the world, this is not what i imagined. >> reporter: from black panther's wakanda, to spider-man's new york city bus. from outer space to inside robert downey jr.'s iron man outfit. are you rocking a new suit of some kind as well? >> you're damn straight. >> reporter: downey helped inaugurate the marvel cinematic universe. how much did his involvement affect your willingness, desire, to be in those movies? >> 100%. >> he created a space in a world where actors like us generally weren't invited. >> i think a gift that i never could have anticipated. >> you end up feeling, the scope of this thing is so far-reaching. >> should we bow? >> yes, he's a king. >> what are you doing? >> we don't do that here. >> reporter: "black panther's" success struck a bl

abc's chris connelly joins us from los angeles and, chris, horror thriller movies are making a big comebackmer fudd on you. be very quiet. be very quiet. it's a type of film that works so well because it plays on our collective fears. this past weekend, movie audiences thought so as well. for "a quiet place," silence was golden. with its $50 million opening weekend, the second biggest this year. the emily blunt/john krasinski horror thriller directed by krasinski with a crystal clear family in peril concept. it even got big ups on twitter from horror og stephen king. whose "it" used that clown and that balloon to, would you like us to stop now? king tweeted, "a quiet place" is an extraordinary piece of work. terrific acting but the main thing is the silence and how it makes the camera's eye open wide in a way few movies manage. 2017 saw horror films gross an estimated $1 billion. thanks as well to best picture nominee "get out." using horror elements to adrenalize writer director jordan peele's piercing insights into race and class. >> too many white people are getting it. >> reporter: prov