. >> reporter: marvel ironman 3 sets the movie season off to a great start. i want grossed $1.1 billion, more than two-thirds coming from overseas. "star trek into darkness" opened last weekend. this summer more than ever the global box office is a game changer. >> what you're seeing from ironman, the great gatsby and "star trek" is the international markets is what's driving the bigger successes. >> despite the fact the movie industry faces so much competition from everything from television to video games as these big budget speck at thatcles that can draw movie fans to come out every weekend. >> "star trek" obviously. >> lone ranger. >> we go every week. >> if they are good films i'll go see them. >> so many big budget films opening in a short period of time raises questions whether they ill cannibalize each other. a slew of summer sequels continues with the hangover part 3 and "fast and furious" 6. well-known brands should dominate throughout the summer. warner brothers superman reboot man of steel hits theaters in june and the lone ranger in july. so who

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a disney movie business which the ceo soaked up with great acquisitions, pixar, marvel and latest lucas films has ironmanting $2 billion box office. and the upside will. the current quarter and thereafter. an extraordinary run, up 48% in the past year could hit 29th all-time high today. rising above $65 today up almost 1%. and 30% also since the start of the year. a big test comes after the bell today. started to backtrack if only because they have been roaring out for so long. i think the company special looking at the ongoing films, they have this interlocking super sequel strategy they have talked about. tracy: parents are suckers for stuffed mickey mouse things. ashley: thank you very much. time for stocks as we do every 15 minutes. the new york stock exchange, joining us now every analyst we have had on says there's always room to the upside, these equities, the valuations are pretty decent, they are reasonable, would you agree? >> i totally would agree. quite frankly i go back to 2008. if you like stocks in 2008 when the companies were built on a house of cards as the economy has turned out in hind

another $4 billion acquisition, marvel, which it brought back this 2009, is also paid off in spades. "ironmanhas grossed $680 million worldwide, $175 million is in the u.s. that makes it the second biggest opening of all time. no now on disney's earnings call in a few hours, we're sure to hear plenty of questions, but what kind of impact could we see from the "ironman 3" succeed and how much it had boost future quarters, and after the earnings, cross the why, phil and mandy, i'll be breaking down the numbers, and we'll have an exclusive interview with bob iger. you won't want to miss it. back over to you. >> thank you very much. >>> let's bring in allen gould. i mean, is ironman 3 already priced into the stock? >> disney is doing very well with all their product. "ironman 3" my guess probably makes $250 million for disney. i think the avengers grossed a billion and a half at the box office. why only $250 million. i know it's not the gross, but the movie has probably grossed well above that, right? >> sure. if it does a billion, probably 500 million goes to disney, and 500 million to the exhib

ironman. "iron man 3", the disney-marvel blockbuster opened 175 million bucks.illion door lar mark. hollywood is happy to have captain kirk's box office help. theater tickets down 12%. im-3 and spock and company could help. movie fan site, rotten tomatoes, the new "star trek" gets almost 90% positive reviews from 1982 critics but only 80 from a few top critics a few set their phasers to sting. chicago sun "times", aggressively self-conscious summer block busters ever made. slate.com, generic come big style and with boomer culture. it was uninspired hack work by the hard to impress "new york times.". trekies will trek to the new "star trek." viecom paramount, they spent almost 200 dal making the film plus millions more marketing it. lori: those reviews gaysally described original series and hack can i and campy and comic book. that is the love of fascination of "star trek". >> what "the new york times" says it many abouts too war-like they sacrificed idiosyncrasy and big human spirit. melissa: maybe that's true. >> oh give me a break. reason they did that in the

ironman 3." he said as of now, it sold more than $711 million worth of tickets worldwide. a massive opening for "iron man 3." he went on to talk about the potential of marvell and what a great acquisition that was. also lucas film saying he is confident he will be able to drive great value out of that acquisition. big focus of the earnings call and results were parks and resorts. there was a 14% increase in p revenue and in operating income in parks and resorts. thanks to higher attendance and higher spending of people once there in the parks. he says part of that is a stronger economy. they noted some interesting attendance records saying the domestic parks, attendance up 8%. another is the media networks division. it is the biggest and most profitable division at disney. one quick note about advertising revenue. espn is the big driver of those media networks. advertising revenue is only up about 4% in the first quarter. they say so far in the quarter we are in right now, ad revenue is up 10%. that bodes well for the rest of the year. >> julia, thanks for that update. what's the trade? >> you want to tweak it a bit. revenue on the media networks is light.