TruthHurts1:


My apologies for the goof, cao and mrdojo.

The thing is at one point in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the only people who were making money from Superhero movies was DC and that was due mainly to Superman and Batman.

Marvel was limited to comic books, Saturday morning cartoons and the occasional video game. They were actually broke and had to sell off a lot of their assets like The Fantastic Four, X-Men and yes,Spiderman.

That is why none of the Spiderman movies made in the last 10 years (The ones with Toby Macgwire and Andy Garfield) are included in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). If they had been included, then Iron Man 1 (2008) would not be considered as the FIRST MCU movie, yet everyone agrees that it was.

I made the mistake of thinking DC had upstaged Marvel to obtain the rights to Spiderman. My bad. It was actually Sony Entertainment who bought and still own the rights to Spiderman. Marvel was only able to reach a deal for the use of Spiderman in Captain America Civil War after a long round of negotiations and bargaining with Sony and they were actually motivated by the fear that Sony would sell to DC if they didn't buy back Spidey.
That is why the new and rebooted Spiderman movie of next year is called "Homecoming". Marvel is celebrating the fact that they have got Spiderman back.

cao:

More like Sony ran to Marvel to make the deal, since their latest Spidey reboot didn't do as well as they expected. Sony owns the film rights to Spiderman, while Fox owns the film rights to the X-Men universe & Fantastic 4. Fox should just relinquish F4 film rights already. They almost messed up Deadpool, thank God that its director and Ryan Reynolds are proper fanboys. If not for that leak they did and the public support it created, we would have never seen the Merc with the Mouth in action. That nonsense in Wolverine Origins does not count.

Marvel made their own studio, so they'd have more creative control & much needed quality control on their IPs and also they'd be able to make more money from it.

Oh and the Tobey Spidey films were not the first films based on Marvel characters. Everybody forgets the Blade films, even the first Punisher film...we could talk about the 1994 F4 film that was only made because the folks who held the film rights at the time wanted to retain said rights. There's even a terrible Captain America 1990 film, sef.

TruthHurts1:


Gosh. Never knew that Blade is a Marvel Character. I always thought that he was one of those randrom characters who didn't fall into either the Marvel or DC camps, like Hancock and Hellboy.

I think Marvel was still learning its craft when it made that embarassing 1990 Captain America movie. Most Steve Rogers fans practically disowned the movie before it was even released because there was widespread anger about its deviation from the original story.
In the original story, the Redskull is German and is the leader of Hitler's S.S. Research Unit (HYDRA), but the 1990 Captain America reinvented him as an Italian so that they could cast him as a Mafia Don in sequels and spinoffs.
Needless to say, it backfired spectacularly and it wasn't until The First Avenger in 2011 that fans finally got the Captain America movie they'd always wanted.

MJBOLT:
damn,misty knight boobs r big

Lana1:

Lol. See ehn I hardly took my eyes off em in everyone of her scenes!!

MJBOLT:
I pray marvel gives her more appearance or maybe her own series

moneyallowed:
According to Feige, "Captain Marvel will be the most powerful superhero in the MCU by far". Wow

So that means she'll be above Thor, Vision, Hulk, Doctor Strange, Scarlet Witch in terms of strength. So she's basically Marvel's Superman in the MCU. The only character to get a massive upgrade from the comics. Comics Hulk, Thor, Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch are all stronger than her, correct me if I'm wrong. Seems like we'll have to revise that power ranking again

MJBOLT:
21 days until doctor strange

cao:
11 days for me.

cao:
5 days folks! Please Doctor Strange don't disappoint me-o. Oh and moneyallowed, I didn't even notice Groot at all, until I read your comment. Every time I see Nebula, I always feel sorry for Karen Gillan, she has really lovely redhair.

moneyallowed:


Have no fear, Doctor Strange won't disappoint, at worst it'll be just there. What I'm afraid of is it won't hold any surprises for me personally ; I've read so many Doctor Stange comics that I can almost predict the plot, I hope they change some things

Baby Groot even got a little mini jacket! The full trailer is coming soon so we should more. I remember Karen saying she didn't shave her head for this one, that they used an adhesive cap. It would have been a crying shame if they'd cut it

moneyallowed:
X-23 is here to stay folks! Y'all had better accept Laura as the new Wolverine or go home

SIRcumalot:

A female wolverine,
who needs that?

Stephen merchant go dey this film that dude is funny!!
I never really liked any of the solo wolverine movies
Adding the professor fit help This one.

Shittaakeem:
Bad news guys tim Miller quits Deadpool 2 due to creative difference with Ryan Reynolds