Avengers: Age Of Ultron Not Afraid Of Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao Fight

When major televised events are scheduled to coincide with your movie's opening weekend, it can be [...]

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When major televised events are scheduled to coincide with your movie's opening weekend, it can be a bit jarring -- but the top-grossing franchise from the most dominant movie studio in the world right now isn't flinching even in the face of one of the biggest Pay-Per-View events in years.

TMZ reached out to Marvel Studios, who told them that there is zero chance they're planning on pushing the release of Avengers: Age of Ultron, even though it opens one day before the Floyd Mayweather/Mannny Pacquiao boxing match.

Marvel's The Avengers took in more than $200 million on its opening weekend, and while the fight is projected to generate about $300 million in Pay Per View revenue, the price of admission is likely to be much higher -- and it's a one-time event, rather than a weekend-long one, so the experiences being sold are fairly different.

Marvel likely assumes that the audience crossover won't be huge and that, even for those consumers willing to pay for both, they could just go at a time when the fight isn't on.

So while the Super Bowl and other similar big-ratings events tend to eat into opening weekend box office for the movies they're competing against, Marvel likely expects that Avengers 2 is an event big enough to tolerate a little competition.

It's a philosophy that's intellectually consistent with their decision not to move Captain America: Civil War out of the way of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. Had Warners not moved their movie, it's likely that box office collision would have cost one or both of the movies a lot more money than a Pay Per View event can, considering that they would have been competing for the same customer base, the same theaters and the same 3D and IMAX screens.

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