Film Industry: Marvel Cinematic Universe blog tasks

 1) How many films are there in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)?

33 films


2) How much money have the MCU films made in total so far?

over $29.8 billion.

3) Why did Marvel create the Avengers films?

Following the formation Marvel Studios as an independent film studio by Avi Arad, the head of Marvel's film division, producer Kevin Feige envisioned creating a shared cinematic universe to introduce the Avengers, similar to Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's comic books in the 1960s.

4) What will Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe involve?

This included five films to be released—Black Widow, Eternals, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Thor: Love and Thunder—as well as five event series to be released on Disney+—The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, WandaVision, Loki, What If...?, and Hawkeye.

5) What will happen with Doctor Strange and who is the main star?

Doctor Strange has entered the multiverse — and lived the tell the tale. In the latest dispatch from Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, Benedict Cumberbatch’s sorcerer superhero embarks on an adventure through alternate realities, meeting variants of some familiar faces (including his own) along the way.

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

After selling the Spider-Man motion picture rights to Sony, Marvel eventually founded its own studio, developing the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) based on the characters they still held the rights to. This would change in 2016, when Sony and Disney entered an agreement to include Spider-Man in the MCU.

7) Which company owns the rights to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men?

In March 2019, Marvel Studios regained the film rights to the Fantastic Four and associated characters, along with the X-Men and Deadpool after Disney acquired 21st Century Fox.

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

Disney+ will also add two new plans from 1 November 2023: 'Standard with Ads' and 'Standard'. The content will be the same across all three plans, but the picture quality and the number of devices you can stream and download on to will differ.

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