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 films

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

$18.2bn(£13.7bn)

3) Why did Marvel create the Avengers films?

They were recovering from bankruptcy. They still owned the characters.

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

Sony and the character is appearing now because marvel and Sony agreed a partnership.

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

21st century fox

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

plans for several new marvel tv series

Grade 8/9 extension tasks

Read this Guardian review of Black Widow to prepare for studying our first CSP. What did the Guardian think of the film?

It is co-written by Jac Schaeffer and directed with gusto by Cate Shortland, with touches of Terminator 2 and Mission: Impossible but keeps the tonal consistency of a MCU melodrama.

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