Film Industry: Marvel Cinematic Universe blog tasks

 

1) How many films were there in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) at the time of this article?  22

2) How much money have the MCU films made in total according to this article? The MCU is the most successful film franchise of all time, making more than $18.2bn (£13.7bn) to date.

3) Why did Marvel create the Avengers films? The Avengers were created to create a new line of books to sell and to cross-promote Marvel Comics characters. An Iron Man fan might buy an Avengers book because Iron Man appears in them, and perhaps in turn take an interest in Thor, who appears in the same book as Iron Man's friend and comrade

4) Who owns the rights to Spiderman and why is the character now appearing in Marvel films?

Sony has the rights to Spiderman however some of the sold off Marvel characters are only now being seen because Marvel studios expect to regain the rights to some of their characters due to a merge between Disney and Fox.

5) Which company owns the rights to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men? 20th Century Fox

6) Look at the very end of the article. What has Disney announced regarding TV shows on their new streaming service Disney+?

 Disney has announced plans for several new Marvel TV series on Disney+.