'Iron Man 3' Shells The Box-Office Competition

Only Tony Stark's last outing, 'Marvel's The Avengers,' had a bigger opening weekend.,,,,,,,,,

Even without his teammates, Iron Man can still take down the bad guys, even breaking box-office records around the world at the same time.
"Iron Man 3" blasted into North America with one of the biggest opening weekends ever, second only to "Marvel's The Avengers," which opened over the same weekend last year. Robert Downey Jr.'s third solo outing as the armor-clad comic book superhero brought in $175.3 million at the domestic box office. Only the $207.4 million opening weekend for "The Avengers" — which, of course, also featured Downey as Iron Man — stands in front of "Iron Man 3" in the record books.
The "Iron Man 3" opening was in line with the higher end of industry projections, which put the film somewhere between $150 million and $175 million. BoxOfficeMojo.com's Ray Subers and Entertainment Weekly's Grady Smith came close in reports on their respective sites;