![]() China, where “Quantumania” is projected to bring in $35 million to $55 million, will be key in the final weekend tally. 1 spot, from “Magic Mike’s Last Dance,” with ease.Īt the international box office, “Ant-Man 3” is looking to clear at least $160 million - though estimates range from $130 million to as high as $190 million. As the only new nationwide release, it’ll take the No. “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” which sees the return of Paul Rudd’s subatomic superhero, is expected to reinvigorate the sluggish winter box office when the latest Marvel adventure opens in theaters over the weekend.ĭisney’s third standalone “Ant-Man” movie is expected to collect $95 million to $100 million in North America over the traditional weekend and $110 through President’s Day on Monday. A private memorial will be held at a later date.ĭF News offers its sincere condolences to Mr. purchased the company for $4 billion.ĭonations in his name may be made to the Naples Botanical Garden and Literacy Volunteers of Collier County. Marvel would file for bankruptcy protection in 1996, but in 2009, the Walt Disney Co. ![]() (In the interim, Marvel had been bought by New World Entertainment in 1986 and then sold again three years later to Ronald Perelman’s Andrews Group for $82.5 million.) Galton failed to get Marvel into the movie business, but when he left his post in 1991 to pursue special projects related to overseas expansion, the company was said to be turning an annual profit of more than $70 million and was the largest comic company in the world, publishing more than 1 million copies a year. Perhaps most importantly, Marvel under his watch acquired the rights to make Star Wars comic books and in 1980 launched an animation studio in Los Angeles, with Marvel icon Stan Lee heading west to head operations there. Galton cleaned up the company's distribution woes, selling directly to the consumer and comic-book collectors' shops instead of using the newsstand model, and exposed characters like Spider-Man, Captain America and Iron Man to international audiences. "But I had four kids - two in private school, two in college - and two mortgages. Don't do this,'" he said in a 2010 interview with the Naples Daily News. "My friends told me, 'The comic industry is dead. When Galton took the job at Marvel in 1975 after he was fired from his post as president of a paperback publishing company owned by CBS, the company was struggling and estimated to be worth about $12 million. ![]() Galton died Monday surrounded by his family at his home in Naples, Fla., a family spokesman announced. ![]() James Galton, the former president and CEO of Marvel Entertainment Group who is widely credited with saving the famed comic book company from bankruptcy in the 1970s, has died. ![]()
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