Forget a Avengers. Tony Stark valid he’s bad-ass adequate all by himself.

With a record-smashing $195.3 million general opening, Disney-Marvel’s “Iron Man 3” soared past final year’s $185.1 million abroad entrance of “The Avengers,” imprinting a biggest opening weekends in many territories via Asia and Latin America.

The scarcely $200 million crawl for “Iron Man 3,” that kickstarted Wednesday in a few markets and rolled out to 42 sum territories, still trails a benchmark general openings of such blockbusters as “Pirates of a Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” ($260.4 million) and a reigning champ, “Harry Potter and a Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” with a $307 million abroad start.

“The warn is a bulk of this opening, not indispensably that audiences are responding to a movie,” pronounced Disney placement exec Dave Hollis. “We trust this (opening) to be a clever denote of what will lead to unusual word-of-mouth worldwide.

“As people start reading headlines of a distance of this opening, we think it will act as a matter for a Thursday night opening Stateside,” Hollis added.

The feeling of an early summer kickstart, supposing by “Iron Man 3,” might have helped Paramount’s Stateside launch of a mid-budgeted Michael Bay laffer “Pain and Gain,” that overperformed with an estimated $20 million by Sunday. The $26 million film was tracking somewhere in a mid-to-high teens.

Meanwhile, Lionsgate’s nuptial comedy “The Big Wedding” underperformed, collecting only $7.5 million. Pic was approaching to land north of $10 million.

But a large doubt now for a Stateside box bureau is either “Iron Man 3″ can interpret a boffo abroad crawl domestically a approach “Avengers” did final year, when it cracked annals with a $207 million domestic opening. So far, tracking for “Iron Man 3″ has been in a $120 million range, yet that should boost after this weekend.

“The universe seems to be responding to this film as if it’s a supplement to ‘The Avengers,’” pronounced one opposition studio exec.

“Iron Man 3″ warranted tip silver in each marketplace led by a U.K., where it grossed $21.5 million. South Korea followed, with $19.2 million, while in Australia, a film grossed an estimated $18.4 million in 5 days, a studio best for both Disney and Marvel.

Imax also warranted a association high for any Marvel recover with “Iron Man 3,” contributing $7.2 million on only 113 screens. That translates to a whopping normal of $64,000 per screen.

Disney still has to launch a film in Russia, Germany and China, a latter of that has seen stellar modernized sheet sales forward of a May 1 internal launch.

At a Stateside specialty B.O., Roadside Attractions’ Southern coming-of-ager “Mud” warranted a plain $2.2 million from 363 runs, for a per-screen normal of $6,022. The film, that stars Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon, launched in 90-plus domestic markets, behaving good via a South and Midwest, with top-ranking grosses in some blurb plexes.

Roadside expands a film to some-more than 500 locations on Friday.

As for a domestic holdovers, Universal’s Tom Cruise sci-fier “Oblivion” hold better-than-expected, down only 53% in a second tour with $17.4 million. Pic’s cumed roughly $65 million Stateside, with only south of $200 million worldwide. That still seems discouraging for a $120 million film (not including marketing), generally with “Iron Man” on rug domestically.

Holding like a champ is Fox-DreamWorks Animation’s “The Croods,” totaling $163 million Stateside and $453 million globally.

Domestic

Film (Weeks in release): 3-day gross*; Locations; Per-theater average; Cume*; Percent change

1. Pain and Gain (1): $20.0; 3,277; $6,103; $20.0; –
2. Oblivion (2): $17.4; 3,792; $4,600; $64.7; -53%
3. 42 (3): $10.7; 3,405; $3,150; $69.1; -39%
4. The Big Wedding (1): $7.5; 2,633; $2,848; $7.5; –
5. The Croods (6): $6.6; 3,283; $2,010; $163.0; -29%
6. G.I. Joe: Retaliation (5): $3.6; 2,707; $1,337; $116.4; -37%
7. Scary Movie 5 (3): $3.5; 2,733; $1,265; $27.5; -44%
8. Olympus Has Fallen (6): $2.8; 2,334; $1,186; $93.1; -38%
9. The Place Beyond a Pines (5): $2.7; 1,584; $1,704; $16.2; -45%
10. Jurassic Park (3D re) (4): $2.3; 1,848; $1,250; $42.0; -43%

Overseas

Film (Weeks in release): Weekend gross*; Territories; Screens; Int’l cume*; World cume*; Percent change

1. Iron Man 3 (1): $195.3; 42; n/a; $195.3; $195.3; –
2. The Croods (6): $13.1; 67; 7,865; $290.0; $453.0; -27%
3. Oblivion (3): $12.8; 60; 7,700; $134.1; $198.8; -61%
4. G.I. Joe: Retaliation (5): $10.2; 62; 10,866; $232.7; $349.1; -75%

*in millions of $