NEW YORK (TheStreet) — The Walt Disney Co. (DIS) wants we to trust that it’s different, and quarterly benefit from a world’s largest party association are certain to uncover a large benefit for a film studios, a sheer contrariety to declines during a film units of rivals Viacom Inc. (VIA)and Time Warner (TWX).

The approaching benefit for Disney’s Studio Entertainment section will be mostly due to a quarterly comparison with a $84 million writedown incurred as a outcome of a wave famous as John Carter. The Carter failure placed a film in a barbarous association of Ishtar and Heaven’s Gate for film losses. Disney is scheduled to news a mercantile second entertain benefit after a tighten of trade currently in New York.

Disney gained 1.6% to $66.07 Tuesday to extend a allege over a past 12 months to 51%.

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As a outcome of a comparison, Michael Nathanson, media researcher during Nomura Equity Research, is awaiting Disney’s Studio Entertainment to uncover a distinction miscarry of $17 million, and that turnabout should assistance a company’s altogether numbers.

Across a industry, film studios continue to underperform other tools of a media conglomerate’s several businesses. Viacom’s Paramount Pictures reported declines in income and handling income while sales forsaken during Warner Bros. as a outcome of unsatisfactory numbers for Jack a Giant Slayer and Gangster Squad.

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Disney did get a large boost over a weekend from Iron Man 3, that posted $175 million in U.S. income for a debut, second top ever to usually The Avengers. Worldwide, Iron Man has already brought in $680 million. Of course, those millions won’t be enclosed in today’s news as they’ll be practical to a stream quarter.

Much of Disney’s expansion stays powered by a entertainment parks and ESPN. The Burbank, Calif.-based company’s mercantile second-quarter formula are approaching to simulate those strengths. Advertising during Disney’s wire networks is foresee to strech 7% while associate price income is foresee to grow 12%, Nathanson said.

Overall, Disney is approaching to news an 8.8% benefit in sales to $10.5 billion, according to a normal guess of 25 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Operating income is foresee to strech $2.4 billion while benefit per share will sum 77 cents per share, according to Bloomberg researcher surveys.

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Nomura is forecasting Disney’s sales for a initial 3 months of 2013 to have reached $9.6 billion, a 9.4% boost from a same duration a year ago. Nathanson also anticipates benefit of 77 cents per share.

On a call, Chief Executive Robert Iger is approaching to speak adult a opening of a company’s cable-TV networks as good as ABC. ESPN benefited from sporting events such as a Super Bowl and a NCAA basketball tournaments. One reversal for Disney was a preference to postpone a recover of a Infinity video-game complement to Aug rather than June. Infinity is approaching to accelerate income during a company’s Interactive unit.

“We design mercantile second-quarter to be an rhythm indicate for a company, with a step-up in underlying associate price growth, as a Comcast / ESPN understanding along with other smaller [multi-channel] placement deals flog in,” Nathanson wrote in an financier note.

Written by Leon Lazaroff in New York