Who will distribute Marvel’s next “Iron Man” installment?
Will there even be an “Iron Man 3”?
With the second leg of the highly successful franchise opening to $128.1 million in the U.S. and Canada — and with rumors circulating that Marvel’s new corporate parent, Disney, is looking to pry a prospective “Iron Man 3” out of Paramount’s contractual hands — a number of questions hang in the air.
And Marvel has done little to inspire clarity, with the studio vaguely declaring Monday: “Under the terms of Marvel Studios’ agreement with Paramount Pictures, Paramount will distribute ‘Iron Man 2’ plus the next three Marvel films, and any potential ‘Iron Man 3’ film.”