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

[GreenScar]

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...

Filming was just completed.

[fighthefutureofhd]

nope. it will be out in early may. but no one wants to talk about it. all they care about are thor, captain america, antman, and the avengers. at the moment they sound sort of dumb and i'm pretty confident that wolverine will kick all their asses. i think wolverine in the top 5 best comic book movie ever made.

[GreenScar]

Originally Posted by obiwopkenobi62

As far as this guy, Mark Protosevich ('I Am Legend')writing Iron man 2 goes, doesn't give me much hope. I thought I am legend was terrible overall. The writing was especially bad. The guy took a perfect story and destroyed it. Hopefully they will get someone better that can write a proper followup to Iron Man.

Originally Posted by jasonbird

Louis Leterrier has revealed not only that Jon Favreau is currently writing Iron Man 2 with Robert Downey Jr., but that the sequel to the Spring blockbuster will feature a new character from the Avengers, after the brief appearance by Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury in the post-credits sequence of Iron Man.

Additionally Leterrier is reported to have said that 2011 will definitely bring Jackson, Downey Jr., Hulk actor Ed Norton and two other 'A-list actors' - presumably whichever A-listers get cast as Thor and Captain America in their respective upcoming movies that Marvel is also producing - together for the Avengers movie.

It was already rumored that Thor would appear in Iron Man 2. But I guesshe could be referring to Antman. Nice to get confirmation that they have Downey Jr, Jackson and Norton sured up for The Avengers already.

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[bhampton]

Hi,

(Sorry... Didn't read through the thread yet...)

Just found it funny when I read the title to think they will spend 600 million on the next 4 movies yet I will likely own them all on Blu Ray for less then $100.

What a deal!

I feel like they are working for me.

=Brian

[Marquoz]

While talking about money, don't forget merchandising rights. I'm sure all the toys that are being moved because of the movies aren't hurting the bottom line!

[SGRSBSKIER]

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.

[Heart_Collector]

Originally Posted by jasonbird

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AAARRRGGHHH! I knew you'd get to it first. Didn't they already let it slip that Thor was going to debut in IM2?

[kefrank]

i will be much more interested to find out who is directing those movies. it doesn't matter how much money they spend if the filmmakers are no good.

[GreenScar]

Originally Posted by kefrank

i will be much more interested to find out who is directing those movies. it doesn't matter how much money they spend if the filmmakers are no good.

Well, they're two for two right now. As for Thor in Iron Man, I've read a lot of people speculate, but I don't think I've read anything official. Since F and D are working on the story, I would imagine parts will leak soon enough.

[fighthefutureofhd]

Originally Posted by SGRSBSKIER

Iron Man 2, Caption America, and Avengers pretty much grantee at least $200 million at the US box office for each movie.

for iron man 2 yes, but for the others? they couldn't even get the incredible hulk to do that. and captain america is even harder of a sell. as is the avengers. i really think that marvel is spreading itself too thin. trying to make too many of it's characters into movies. while great comic book characters, they don't always make great movie characters. captain america and avengers for example just don't sound appealing movie wise. maybe they'll get it right like they did with spider-man, x-men, and iron man. but their past efforts have shown that they don't get it right all that often.

[Lucy Diamond]

I'm still concerned for the Thor fans out there.

That is going to be a particularly touchy film to make in that if it is done correctly, it will be really good, but if they make the slightest mistake it will probably turn into a 2 hour gay joke.

Casting and scripting will be EVERYTHING for that film and I hope they pull it off. I was never really into Thor, but the fans who are...REALLY REALLY are, and they haven't had much in the way of Thor films.

There was that Hulk special on TV, but other then that...not much.

(ps - the scene where Thor answers the door in a towel and is drinking an entire pitcher of beer....that's one of those things that could go both ways...what was with the towel guys???)

[WriteSimply]

Additionally what's more important, at least to Americans and particularly Californianas, is that the majority of the US$600 million to be spent on Marvel's movies will be spent in Hollywood (sans VFX work). With the devaluation of the US currency, it makes financial sense NOT to shift production out of Hollywood.

The countries that may suffer from this production shift are Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK and the European countries.


fuad

[GreenScar]

At the Marvel panel at Comic Con day 1:


Kevin Feige said that they want to hire filmmakers and get the scripts in order before casting their upcoming high-profile movies despite there being a lot of rumors and speculation going on right now.

Feige also affirmed that The Incredible Hulk lived up to their expectations and the response from the audience was generally good, and he said that the Hulk will certainly return.

When asked whether Marvel Studios might ever get some of the other characters back in order to make their own movies, he said that there were very specific contractual obligations and he didn't think Sony or Fox would let go of Spider-Man or The X-Men anytime soon.

It certainly seems like Thor and Ant-Man will be the movies that Marvel Studios will be focusing on for the rest of the year from the way they were paired together in the slides and mentioned, but maybe that's just this writer's speculation. (Yeah, probably.) He wasn't able to comment on whether Jon Favreau is officially signed to Iron Man 2 (so basically, that holding pattern continues to hold.)

Dr. Doom won't be in the Avengers movie since he's part of the 20th Century Fox contract with Marvel, though he couldn't say whether he might be in future "Avengers" sequel. (Of course, this all depends on whether Marvel ever gets those characters back from Fox.)

As it's been reported, there's a script for a Silver Surfer movie, but Feige believes that Fox will wait and see how X-Men Origins: Wolverine does before committing.

Marvel has no plans to license out any other characters for movies that haven't already been licensed out. (That got a big round of applause.)

[CasualKiller]

These comic book hero movies are getting kind of stale. Seems like all there is in the theaters now is remakes, sequels and comic book adaptions.

What I wouldn't give for an original movie that doesn't suck...

[GreenScar]

Originally Posted by CasualKiller

These comic book hero movies are getting kind of stale. Seems like all there is in the theaters now is remakes, sequels and comic book adaptions.

What I wouldn't give for an original movie that doesn't suck...

That's what the winters are for.

[fighthefutureofhd]

another hulk? man marvel doesn't know when to quit. that horse is dead. i'm surprised to see them think that the incredible hulk performed well or lived up to their expectations. they must have some very low expectations.

[GreenScar]

Originally Posted by fighthefutureofhd

another hulk? man marvel doesn't know when to quit. that horse is dead. i'm surprised to see them think that the incredible hulk performed well or lived up to their expectations. they must have some very low expectations.

Okay, before I flame you, please explain why you hated it so much?

[fighthefutureofhd]

i can't say that i actually hated it, but i wasn't as impressed with it as most. i thought the effects in a lot of areas wasn't good at all. like watching a video game. the hulk having nipples was just as bad for me as the bat nipples. i thought the opening sequence and first action scene was well done, but it never kept that momentum for me and felt too b-movie for my taste. it wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great. i'm really on the fence about it really. i did like some of the story and the way it was plotted.

i think the hulk wasn't a better movie, but there are elements i like about it more than the incredible hulk. if they combined elements from the hulk i liked (the effects, actors, pacing somewhat) with the elements from the incredible hulk that i liked (story, plot devices, framing of the action, direction in some respects) into one movie i would actually like that. not to say that the incredible hulk is a bomb, but it's not a movie i can truly give a thumbs up to.