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Ben Gilbert: belief

5 Dec 2016 Acquired Marvel

“Actually the year before, I think that was ’09 and in 2008 they had The Hulk which was about half of what that film grossed.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
5 Dec 2016
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
Marvel

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…Yup. Totally. And Iron Man, that was really the best that they had available and that was the first film that they made and it came out in early 2008 and it ended up being tour de force for Robert Downey Jr. I remember seeing it in theaters. Such a great movie, the original Iron Man. Absolutely. Actually the year before, I think that was ’09 and in 2008 they had The Hulk which was about half of what that film grossed. They actually both came out in 2008. They made them concurrently. Iron Man actually came out a couple months before Hulk, I believe, at least according to Wikipedia, and which is always right. And yeah, Iron Man made $585 million at the box office, almost $600 million which is compared to films like the Avengers and Iron Man 3,and Frozen, and other Disney movies, and certainly The Force Awakens that make a billion or even close to $2 billion, that doesn’t sound like a lot but at the time that was a huge amount even though it was only a few years ago.…

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