The summer's biggest movie franchises — ranked

Traditionally, the summer movie season has become synonymous with Hollywood's biggest franchises. But as big titles invade every month in the moviegoing calendar (Disney's mother-of-all-tentpoles "Avengers: Endgame" is already in theaters, and "Captain Marvel" - like "Black Panther" before her - grossed $1 billion worldwide in the first quarter of the year), it's harder to tell which summer movies are truly events.

We've collected eight of this season's key franchise releases (defining a franchise as a series with at least three installments) and ranked them according to average box office. It'll be up