Marvel Studios – History

Marvel Studios, LLC is an American film studio that is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company.

Studios set packaged and licensed the first film Blade, based on the vampire hunter Blade.

Later, the studio released the movie on August 21, 1998, grossing $70,087,718 in the United States and Canada and $131,183,530 worldwide. In 1999, Marvel licensed Spider-Man to Sony.

Blade was followed by X-Men, which was directed by Bryan Singer and was released on July 14, 2000. X-Men grossed $157,299,717 in the United States and Canada and $296,250,053 worldwide.

Blade and X-Men demonstrated that widely popular films could be made out of comic book characters not familiar to the general public.

Marvel Studio – Change in Policy

In 2004, Board hired David Maisel as chief operating officer of Marvel Studios. Later, he planed to self-finance movies for the studio.

In 2005, the studio moved to a new location over a Mercedes-Benz dealership in Beverly Hills.

On December 31, 2009, The Walt Disney Company purchased Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion.

In April 2010, rumors circulated that Marvel was looking to create $20–40 million movies. These movies are based on properties such as Doctor Strange, Ka-Zar, Luke Cage, Dazzler, and Power Pack.

Upon the release of The Amazing Spider-Man in 2012, Disney and Sony negotiated a two-way agreement.

Later, Disney would receive full merchandising ancillary rights to future Spider-Man films in exchange for Sony purchasing out Marvel’s film participation rights.

Later in April 2013, Marvel Studios moved its production facilities. Studio moved it from Manhattan Beach to The Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

In September 2018, media reported that Marvel Studios was developing several limited series for the streaming service Disney+.

Soon, the storyline centered around “second tier” characters from the MCU films. These Character are unlikely to star in their own films.

The Mgmt considered characters for series included Loki and Scarlet Witch. The actors who portrayed the characters in the films expected to reprise their roles for the limited series.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)

Marvel Studios produced MCU films, an American series of superhero films based on characters that appear in publications of Marvel Comics.

Later the Studio set all of the films in the MCU shared universe.

The films have been in production since 2007, and in that time Marvel Studios has produced and released 22 films. Futher nine more in various stages of production.

Soon, it is the highest-grossing film franchise of all time, having grossed over $20.8 billion at the global box office.

Marvel Studios groups its films into various arcs known as “Phases”.

Paramount Pictures distributed the first film in the series is Iron Man (2008). Later, Paramount also distributed Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011) and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), while Universal Pictures distributed The Incredible Hulk (2008).

Later, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures began distributing the films with the 2012 crossover film The Avengers, which concluded Phase One of the franchise.

Phase Two includes Iron Man 3 (2013), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy(2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), and Ant-Man (2015).

Captain America: Civil War (2016) is the first film in the franchise’s Phase Three.

Later Studio produced Doctor Strange (2016), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Black Panther (2018), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Captain Marvel (2019), and Avengers: Endgame (2019). 

The first 22 films (from Iron Man to Avengers: Endgame) are collectively known as “The Infinity Saga”.