Avengers: Age Of Ultron trailer sets viewing record
Just as people point to Jaws as the first blockbuster film, their addled children might someday remember Avengers: Age Of Ultron as the first blockbuster preview. Deadline reports that the teaser trailer scored 34.3 million views globally in its first 24 hours online, handily beating the previous record of Marvel’s Iron Man 3 trailer by 20 million views. Originally set to premiere during the Tuesday, Oct. 28 airing of Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., the trailer leaked online Wednesday, Oct. 22 and quickly went viral. After throwing their hands up in the air and saying, “Screw it—we’re still rich,” Marvel executives decided to post an HD version of the trailer on the company’s YouTube channel, which snagged more than 26.7 million of the total views that day.