Marvel to spend $600 million on its next 4 movies!

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Originally Posted by Blu-ray Fanatic

Wow! But will they profit from their movies? I wouldn't mind watching Thor and Captain America though.

I just don't see a point in creating an expensive movie and not profit from it. There's no doubt in my mind most movies come up short of their budget and lose money.

Iron Man 2, Caption America, and Avengers pretty much grantee at least $200 million at the US box office for each movie. They should easily make back the $600 million. Its actually possible that Iron Man with Worldwide Box Office, DVD/BD, Game/Toy Merchandising, and TV deals could earn them a $600 million profit from the movie.

Originally Posted by AranhaHunter

I know Paramount is distributing Iron Man 2, Avengers and Captain America, but who's distributing Thor?

From 4/28/2005 http://www.comicbookmovie.com/news/articles/1877.asp

Marvel and Paramount Sign Movie Deal


The Future of Captain America and Nick Fury is Revealed



We have learned that Paramount has signed a lucrative and exclusive deal with Marvel for films based on Marvel's remaining characters as previously reported by Variety.

Marvel has already put together a half-billion-dollars to create a slate of films with production budgets as high as $180 milion, using their remaining 5,000 comic book characters.

Two of the first classic comic book characters that will hit the big screen are Captain America and Nick Fury.

It is said that Marvel has never produced a film on their own until this production deal was made. To fund this venture Marvel has gathered a seven-year $525 million credit facility with Merrill Lynch Commercial Finance Corp. They are secured against the film rights to at least ten comic-book characters including Captain American. Although Paramount will not be providing any production money, they will receive a fee for marketing and distributing an initial 10 films. The first film is expected to be released in two years and for the largest possible audience none of the films will have a rating above PG-13.

TheFilmProphet
4/28/2005
Source: Variety

So Marvels first 10 movies will be distributed by Paramount (Most recent Hulk not included, any future Hulk probably will though) So 5 we know: Iron Man 1,2, Thor, Captain America, Avengers. We also know they want to make an Ant man movie before the Avengers movie comes out, but that doesn't mean it will get done.

Originally Posted by The Don

Wolverine is due out next year....did that get scrapped or something?...

I'd love to see Wolverine join the Avengers for a quick stint...

Almost certainly will not happen, Fox owns the X-men franchise thus Wolverine (possibly all characters in the X-men universe which would suck if Marvel can't use any of them). The same for Fantastic Four. The Punisher is still with Lionsgate, and Blade is probably still with New Line (or now Warner Brothers).
Now Marvel may have gotten back the rights to some of their characters like Dare Devil, Elecktra, and they do have the rights back to the Hulk (obviously)

But Sony owns Ghost Rider and Spiderman. They wanted Spiderman in the Hulk movie:

http://www.thebadandugly.com/2008/06...y-cameo-happy/

Spider-Man was almost in The Hulk?

Good lord, Louis Leterrier! Stop getting us salivating for shit that isn’t in your movie! We’re VERY sorry that Captain America didn’t make it into whatever vision you had for The Incredible Hulk. It would have been really cool, even though you would have cast a poor C-List actor who would live his 15-minutes of fame subbing in for – huge rumor - Matthew McConaughey.

Now, Leterrier is hyping up cameos that NEVER HAPPENED, like his impassioned plea to put Spider-Man in The Incredible Hulk…

From MTV:

“The University at the end [where Banner meets with Samuel Sterns] is Columbia University. Columbia University in the Marvel world, especially in the ‘Spider Man’ world, is Empire State University,” the director explained. “I wanted some kind of shot where you’re like, ‘Oh my god. Is that Peter Parker?’ That would have been fun!”
Unfortunately for Leterrier, crossovers begin and end with the properties Marvel has total control of – no matter how hard you ask. And “Spider-Man” all its many names, places, and stories therein, belong to Sony. But while he quickly realized that he wouldn’t be able to get Tobey Maguire (no matter how much he wanted to), Leterrier thought a compromise could be reached. No dice, he sighed.
“I just wanted to call it Empire University – to treat it like a coherent world,” he recalled. “And Sony, who has the rights to Spidey, didn’t want us to do that. It was a small thing but something we couldn’t do.”
Still, Leterrier is such a fan of comics, and the new combined Marvel universe in particular, he’s already jealous of the director who one day, he knows, will get to do what he couldn’t.
“Marvel is pretty good at doing their own movies and so eventually the studios will allow them to chaperone the production of [all of them],” he said. “Years from now you’ll see Peter Parker meeting Bruce Banner.”

We don’t want to come down on the side of Cameo-Louis here, but we can’t remember Sony actually using the phrase the title “Empire University” in any of the Spider-Man films. Nor do we think that buying out the rights to Spider-Man somehow gives you free-reign over naming fictional Universities used over multiple Marvel story-lines.

However: The Incredible Hulk has to stand on its own, and too quickly the PR has started to make it all about establishing a coherent Marvel Universe on film. Though it seems to be Leterrier doing most of the pimping here, we can’t help but wonder how much Marvel is spinning the director’s cameo-hungry mind.

wow thats a long post.