Some film buffs scoff at franchise movies, but sequels featuring caped saviours, space rebels, escaped dinosaurs and giant robots make up the highest-earning movies in Malaysia and Singapore.
With how Avengers: Infinity Wars is currently tracking at the box office and how Black Panther tracked earlier this year (both are Marvel superhero movies), it looks as if they could stop, or even reverse, the decline in cinema viewership written about recently in this newspaper.
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