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Avengers Makes $1 Billion, Two New Marvel Films In The Works

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:51 am, May 14th, 2012


The Avengers has officially gone from making millions to billions. And we can certainly understand why – it was awesome. To celebrate, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige reiterated the company’s plans for sequels to their solo films but also talked about two more properties they’ve yet to announce. 

First thing’s first. Deadline reports The Avengers, “broke $100M in its second weekend for the first time in movie history (beating Avatar‘s 75M)…”The international figure is $628.9M after adding $95.4M from overseas this weekend playing in almost every movie territory.”

The Avengers is now the first Marvel film and the fifth for Disney to reach $1 billion in global ticket sales.

“The biggest one could be yet to come,” writes the Hollywood Reporter, “the Disney and Marvel Studios’ film could match or overtake Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 to become the third biggest grossing movie in history behind Avatar ($2.8 billion) and Titanic ($2.2 billion), both from James Cameron.”

Feige spoke to Bloomberg about what’s coming up from the company over the next few years. He said that although The Avengers will be their only film this year, the plan is to have two released each year from now on.

“In a week and a half, we begin filming Iron Man 3. By the end of the summer we’ll be working on the next Thor film, early next year the next Captain America film,” he said, mentioning what we already knew was in the works. He then added, ”Those are the three we’ve announced so far. We’ve got two beyond that that we haven’t announced yet, but we’re working on.” Feige also mentioned the company meeting with Pixar about a possible Marvel animated film.

When he says “announced” does he mean films that really haven’t been announced yet, or just ones that haven’t officially been announced. We’ve heard plans of an Ant-Man film as well as Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy and perhaps another Hulk film. Can we all cross our fingers and hope Marvel decides to make one of those films about one of the Marvel women in the image above?

(via Deadline, Digital Spy)

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  • Anonymous

    Unfortunately Marvel doesn’t own the movie rights to a good number of those ladies at the moment.  Movie Bob had a fun video trying to explain the whole thing.  http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/5685-Wrongs-Rights
    I do hope that Marvel makes the case and uses Scarlet Witch though.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Travis.K.Fischer Travis Kyle Fischer

    Coming in 2014…

    Stark and Banner: Science Bros.

  • http://www.thenerdybird.com/ Jill Pantozzi

    Yeah, they can’t use any of the X-Men, and only Scarlet Witch if they don’t mention the X-Men, haha.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LFHOEUG3QJAEWPNI2CFIOYD6EM Katie

    I am STILL waiting for a Deadpool movie. C’mon Marvel! 

  • http://twitter.com/zenoferic Erica Throne

    During the movie I suggested they should just make Iron Hulk babies. Pepper Pots can be their surrogate. It would be MAGICAL.

  • http://www.facebook.com/privatewojtek Bear Philippe

     The movie rights to Deadpool still belong to Fox. They’re developing a film right now.

  • http://www.facebook.com/privatewojtek Bear Philippe

     Or being a mutant. How will that work?

  • http://twitter.com/Totz_the_Plaid Totz_the_Plaid

    Invisible Woman, Phoenix, Black Cat, Storm, Medusa, Armor(? …or is she Shadowcat?), and Elektra are all off the table since Marvel Studios don’t hold the movie rights for the franchises they’re most connected to, unfortunately.

    Mary Jane and Gwen Stacey are also off the table for the same reason, but also for the fact that it’d be hard to make an effective movie around such civilian characters (well, a “Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane” movie could be awesome, but the rights issues prevent that).

    Ms. America seems unlikely, and I’ve got to be honest in that I don’t know who the blonde with the spider on her abdomen and the woman with the fuzzy hat are.

    Finally, Wasp’s probably tied up in Edgar Wright’s supposed Ant-Man movie (and why that early costume? She’s had literally DOZENS since!)

    That leaves Scarlet Witch (who may or may not be tied up in X-Men stuff as well), Ms. Marvel a.k.a. Binary, Black Widow (who I’d personally like to see paired up with Hawkeye in a film showing a few of their missions as partners), Spider-Woman (my personal top pick for a solo movie from this list), and She-Hulk (probably going to be introduced in The Incredible Hulk 2 if it happens. Maybe as an experiment created by Samuel Sterns who we last saw presumably about to mutate into the Leader).

    Women not in this pic that I’d love to see get their own Marvel movies: Squirrel Girl, Hellcat, and particularly Songbird.

  • http://twitter.com/Totz_the_Plaid Totz_the_Plaid

     By the way… I forget, Damien Hellstrom isn’t Mephisto’s son, is he? That could cause rights issues for the Hellcat movie if he is since that crappy version of “Mephisto” is tied up in those shitty Ghost Rider movies. I mean, they could always pick some other Marvel demonic figure for his father if they need to, but…

  • http://twitter.com/GeekLock Dingo

    Wasn’t there a Runaways movie in preproduction? Is that still a thing?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kalynn-Osburn/100000209378615 Kalynn Osburn

    In order to do a female Marvel film, they need to be sure that it isn’t an offshoot of one of the male hero story archs. Like you couldn’t do She-Hulk because she’s the Smurfette principal in motion. You couldn’t do Sue Richards because she’ part of a combo. You need to pick a female superhero who is a stand alone character.

    On the other hand, I would sincerely love to see a Black Widow movie, one that doesn’t tote the wet sprocket like Electra did.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BJ65LLJI6OOKT7NR4SLMWO2XZA Dazee

    My fiance really, really wants a Shulkie movie. And I’m all for a female superhero already and not Wonder Woman. I want them to show us there are more female superheroes out there that can stand their own besides Wonder Woman.

  • TKS

    Pretty certain that is Shadowcat, she left the sleeves on.  Also, the girl in the fuzzy hat is Molly, a Runaway with super strength, and originator of the line “Why are you not awesomed by me?”

    Any of the “things they could actually do” paragraph sounds great to me.  I am pretty sure Scarlet Witch would be stuck in Fox land.

  • TKS

    Change her origin?  Make her strait up Gypsy?  Though being a mutant is a key part of her character.

  • http://www.facebook.com/theViCkYvIc Victor Costa Parreira

    SCARLET PLEASE

  • http://twitter.com/JLeeMilliren J.Lee Milliren

    I WANT THE ANT MAN MOVIE

    actually I want  a Black Widow movie…..or a captain (previously known as Miss) Marvel movie.

  • Anonymous

    I would really like Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver to show up in the next film. And Ant Man and Wasp. And Black Panther. And Vision. If any of them make it in I’ll be happy, but I agree Marvel has some great female characters that deserve mainstream success.

  • Anonymous

    Actually Scarlet Witch has one foot in Fox land and one in Marvel land :)
    http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=58255 

  • Anonymous

    Actually Kevin Feige has stated that either they of Fox could use Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver if they wanted to.
    http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=58255 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LFHOEUG3QJAEWPNI2CFIOYD6EM Katie

     They have been saying that for quite while. I have a feeling that it’s never going to happen >_<

  • http://twitter.com/burntbythesea Amanda Allen

    I hope it’s a black widow storyline.

  • Anonymous

     I figure they can just say she has innate powers (or call her a witch) without using the M-words (mutant and Magneto).  After all, she didn’t know who her dad was for quite some time.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.lindberg3 Eric Lindberg

    The blonde with the spider on her abdomen is the original Black Widow from the 1940s. Currently featured in JM Straczynski’s “The Twelve.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/IfuritaOni Bree Smith

    Sadly….keep in mind that a lot of the women in the picture are not available to Marvel/Disney studios, the characters of Xmen and Fantastic Four currently stil under contract to 20th Century Fox.  More importantly, Avenger’s success is built on FIVE prequel movies and THREE years of buildup.  Any solo movie to come – be it male or female Avengers character - will live and die by their own merits….so good writing, good acting, and strong characterization will remain the lynchpins of success.

  • http://twitter.com/charleydeppner charleydeppner

    If Pixar animates a Marvel film, I’m putting my money on “Fantastic Four”. I don’t see any other way they can give the Marvel’s First Family justice. 

    And, along the same lines, I don’t see any better reason to bring the “Big Guns” of Pixar in to cross-pollinate the content pool, without re-tooling the existing *working* (vs. falling short) lineup.

    This plays well into the proven formula of the The Incredibles which already had 1 part “Fantastic Four” and 2 parts “Watchmen”.

  • Danita Olson

    i wouldn’t mind having a phoenix movie… she is pretty badass.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DYG7L3CJH267QV66RVCCL2QQNY Va

    Ms Marvel would be a totally kick-ass movie but she should have a tie-in with “Guardians of the galaxy” movie first and introduce Captain Marvel to pass his powers onto Carol Danvers. 

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