Marvel Studios avoids a box office disappointment, buoyed by international audiences. But is that enough to lift this latest Captain America sequel to box office profits?

I saw Marvel's Captain America: Brave New World, and was all-in on Harrison Ford's Red Hulk (including the monster's chest hair). However, I'll save my thoughts on how good, or how tedious, the film was for later. But there was one moment that made me chuckle, and then made me think. Don't worry -- this doesn't spoil anything.

The goal was to make sure that we were doing it at a time which, because of the strikes, nobody was writing.” Why would the Illuminati have been in Brave New World? In the comics, Steve Rogers was part of the team,