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?
More than $18.2bn (£13.7bn) to date.

3) Why did Marvel create the Avengers films?#
In 2007, Marvel was recovering from bankruptcy and had sold off the film rights to some of the company's most popular characters like the X-Men and Spider-Man.

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

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.



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+?
Announced plans for several new Marvel TV.

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