Post by merh on Sept 23, 2018 15:33:38 GMT
Who gives a flying rat's rear?
My Comic Collection is Spiderman, Captain America, Doctor Strange, Defenders (Dr. Strange edition), Champions (hero team with Angel, Iceman, Widow, & Hercules), Ghost Rider, Tomb of Dracula, Ka-Zar. Thor. Stray editions of comics with characters I like such as Namor, Angel, etc. so Avengers with Thor & Cap.
DC heroes I collected?
Spectre, Creeper.
Why do I care if they are A-listers?
The comic shop owner tried his hardest to convince me I should buy X-Men because it was The Hot Title. Wolverine!!!!!!!!
I didn't care.
The only X-Man I really liked was Angel & they never used him well.
Since when is mass market the stamp of quality?
McDonalds?
Olive Garden?
That Marvel took their second string & made it gross better than the A-listers of DC & their own brand is yet another underdog feat they pulled off.
with a cinematic universe that a lister never needed. good you said gross since Disney made them more like Pixar that gross better than all comic movies and not like marvel characters from the comics.
...you understand
On December 31, 2009, The Walt Disney Company purchased Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion. Both Marvel and Disney stated that the merger would not affect any preexisting deals with other film studios for the time being, although Disney said they would distribute future Marvel projects with their own studio once the deals expired.
In April 2010, rumors circulated that Marvel was looking to create $20–40 million movies based on properties such as Doctor Strange, Ka-Zar, Luke Cage, Dazzler, and Power Pack.Kevin Feige responded by saying, while budgets are generally never discussed early in development, Marvel was considering films for all characters mentioned in the rumor, except Dazzler, whose rights were at Fox.
In April 2010, rumors circulated that Marvel was looking to create $20–40 million movies based on properties such as Doctor Strange, Ka-Zar, Luke Cage, Dazzler, and Power Pack.Kevin Feige responded by saying, while budgets are generally never discussed early in development, Marvel was considering films for all characters mentioned in the rumor, except Dazzler, whose rights were at Fox.
Meaning Iron Man & Hulk were already released.
Sam Raimi first developed the concept of a film adaptation of Thor in 1991, but soon abandoned the project, leaving it in "development hell" for several years. During this time, the rights were picked up by various film studios until Marvel signed Mark Protosevich to develop the project in 2006, and planned to finance it and release it through Paramount. Matthew Vaughn was originally assigned to direct the film for a tentative 2010 release. However, after Vaughn was released from his holding deal in 2008, Branagh was approached and the film's release was rescheduled to 2011. The main characters were cast in 2009, and principal photography took place in California and New Mexico from January to May 2010
BEFORE DISNEY SIGNED Thor was cast.
In December 2009, director Joe Johnston indicated that he planned to start filming in April 2010
BEFORE DISNEY SIGNED, Captain America had a director.
The first film packaged and licensed by Marvel Studios was Blade, based on the vampire hunter Blade. The film was directed by Stephen Norrington and starred Wesley Snipes as Blade. It was released on August 21, 1998, grossing $70,087,718 in the United States and Canada and $131,183,530 worldwide.[26] In 1999, Marvel licensed Spider-Man to Sony.
Blade was followed by X-Men, which was directed by Bryan Singer and was released on July 14, 2000. X-Men grossed $157,299,717 in the United States and Canada and $296,250,053 worldwide. The Marvel films Blade and X-Men demonstrated that widely popular films could be made out of comic book characters not familiar to the general public.
Leading up to X-Men's release, Marvel Studios negotiated a deal with then-functional Artisan Entertainment, successful with the low-budget The Blair Witch Project, for a co-production joint venture that included rights to 15 Marvel characters including Captain America, Thor, Black Panther, Iron Fist, and Deadpool. Artisan would finance and distribute while Marvel would develop licensing and merchandising tie-ins. The resulting production library, which would also include TV series, direct-to-video films and internet projects, would be co-owned. With the deal at the time, 24 Marvel properties were then in various stages of development.
Blade was followed by X-Men, which was directed by Bryan Singer and was released on July 14, 2000. X-Men grossed $157,299,717 in the United States and Canada and $296,250,053 worldwide. The Marvel films Blade and X-Men demonstrated that widely popular films could be made out of comic book characters not familiar to the general public.
Leading up to X-Men's release, Marvel Studios negotiated a deal with then-functional Artisan Entertainment, successful with the low-budget The Blair Witch Project, for a co-production joint venture that included rights to 15 Marvel characters including Captain America, Thor, Black Panther, Iron Fist, and Deadpool. Artisan would finance and distribute while Marvel would develop licensing and merchandising tie-ins. The resulting production library, which would also include TV series, direct-to-video films and internet projects, would be co-owned. With the deal at the time, 24 Marvel properties were then in various stages of development.
So Marvel was working on those other heroes FOR YEARS.
better/made high quality is another story, a listers can make profit, have quality and have better movies.
Are you saying Marvel films have not made a profit?
Sorry.
The Marvel films are higher quality than most of the X-Men films.
Quality? What was done to Deadpool in the Wolverine movie was quality?
mcu movies are so bad they destroyed the credibility of the genre. if not for real a listers putting out films like TDK, DOFP and Logan who knows what could have happened with the mcu pixar generic movies
A listers?
So you mean the studios?
So are you saying Disney Studios is not an A-list studio?
Because you know the comic book characters aren't putting out movies, right?
Actual humans plan them.
And as a longtime Ghost Rider fan, I can tell you that film maybe had passion, but it played fast & loose with the character.
Thor, on the other hand, is far closer to the comicbook.
So is Cap.
Thor has always had humor. Like when Loki turned him into a frog
(Issue 364 from February 1986). The Warriors Three also have provided humor.