Film Industry: Marvel Cinematic Universe blog
Read this BBC article on the Marvel Cinematic Universe and answer the following questions based on the article:
1) How many films were there in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) at the time of this article?
22 films featuring the comic book characters are set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) at the time of this article.
2) How much money have the MCU films made in total according to this article?
More than $18.2 billion ($13.7 billion) the MCU films made in total according to this article
3) Why did Marvel create the Avengers films?
3) Why did Marvel create the Avengers films?
Marvel created Avengers films because Marvel still owned the superheroes who form the core Avengers team - Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor and Captain America - so used the early MCU films to introduce these heroes.
Marvel then brought these characters together for the crossover film Avengers Assemble. You can see a list of all the current members of The Avengers here, external.
The crossover was planned from the very beginning.
4) Who owns the rights to Spiderman and why is the character now appearing in Marvel films?
Long before Marvel Studios existed, Marvel Entertainment had sold the rights to some of its characters to other filmmakers.
Spider-Man was sold to Sony. The studio made a Spider-Man trilogy starring Tobey Maguire, and soon afterwards rebooted the franchise less successfully with Andrew Garfield as the webslinger.
However, Sony and Marvel have now agreed a partnership that allows Tom Holland's Spider-Man to appear in MCU films, while Sony retains the rights to the character.
Sony also owned the rights to Ghost Rider, and made two films about him starring Nicolas Cage, until the rights reverted back to Marvel in 2013.
5) Which company owns the rights to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men?
The Fantastic Four series and the X-Men were sold to 20th Century Fox, though Marvel Studios expect to regain the rights to both properties this year due to a merger between Disney and Fox. The merger means Marvel could introduce these characters into the MCU in future films.
6) Look at the very end of the article. What has Disney announced regarding TV shows on their new streaming service Disney+?
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, including one based on Thor's adopted brother Loki, on their new streaming service, Disney+, so there'll be plenty more Marvel content to watch in future.
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