What a remarkable body of work the MCU is. Not simply in the delivery of film after film that have been successful but as much in confidence of longer term planning and delivery. Through the different films they have woven both storylines and characters and have, for years now, seemingly marched relentlessly towards the guiding light of the Avengers Infinity
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So the MCU has been a money making machine, we all know that… But which films have been the big winners and losers in the context of their budgets and when compared to other films? So, to try and look into this, I’ve taken all of the films and plotted their positions in terms of budget and gross revenues. In
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Bursting onto the screens across the planet is the latest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe – Captain America : Civil War – A film that is in many ways a mix of Captain America 3, Iron Man 4 and The Avengers 3. Its screenplay is by the combination of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (who have penned the previous
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So we reach the latest (prior to the upcoming release of the new Captain America movie) film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe – the 2015 Ant Man. Directed by Peyton Reed (Yes Man, The Break Up, Down with Love), the film has a screenplay that was written by the group of Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz),
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The Avengers are back! We find the superhero team storming their way through Hydra bases seeking to reclaim the
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So, as we rapidly approach the end of the Marvel theme month, I’ve been thinking about the different films and how they hang together. There’s been mention in the past of the strength of the series partly being based on the different styles to the films keeping them relatively fresh and to an extent I agree. For me their strength
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To the 10th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe we head to a very different location to the previous ones, and into the wonders of space for Marvel’s equivalent of The Dirty Dozen 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy. Directed by James Gunn and co-written by Gunn and Nicole Perlman. In 1988, a young boy called Peter Quill is abducted from outside
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Cap is back and ready for action in the 2014 Captain America : The Winter Soldier. Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and with a screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeeley (previously having written the original Captain America film and also the 2nd Thor film). Here we find Captain Steve Rogers trying to get to grips with life 70 some years
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Continuing on in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we return to the intergalactic Space opera of Thor, in the 2013 sequel Thor : The Dark World. For the follow up, Alan Taylor took on the role of director (Kenneth Branagh having directing the first film), having previously directed Palookaville and Kill The Poor. The screenplay by Christopher Yost and the pairing
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For the first MCU film post The Avengers, Tony Stark returns in his third solo standalone film in 2013’s Iron Man 3. This is the first of the Stark films not directed by Jon Favreau, with Shane Black who had previously directed Robert Downey Jnr in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Much like that film, Black also wrote the screenplay, this
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