Marvel Cinematic Universe Blog Task

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 Film Industry: Marvel Cinematic Universe blog tasks


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

2) How much money have the MCU films made in total according to this article?
$18.2bn

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?
Marvel - he is in many marvel films and marvel have the rights over him 

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

6) Look at the very end of the article. What has Disney announced regarding TV shows on their new streaming service Disney+?
Disney has plans for many movies such as  Thor's adopted brother Loki. 

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