The Marvel Cinematic Universe Becomes the Tenth Highest-Grossing Franchise of All Time!

I find it funny that the most hated MCU film is the most financially successful. LOL
But I'm sure Avengers will beat that without a problem. ;D

great news for the marvel cinematic universe franchise,it'll just get bigger & bigger.

avatar just needs a sequel to enter this list & then that will dominate this list.

Hats off to Marvel

Should be another 5 Bond movies for it to over take the list. By then Avatar would have come out and be #1. Will take another 7 Bond movies to over take Avatar, that is if Avatar sequels remain the 3B-4B range. Would take a new Star Wars trilogy in 3D to over take Harry Potter.

bout to move up some too!

@Delbert What about Spider-Man new actors to play the characters. Also with Bond wvery few years a new Bond. Same with Star Wars. With Marvel movies at least they are in the same Universe.

the avengers has to make what ever TDKR makes plus around 300 million more in order to surpass it,

@projectgotham well if you play by those rules, i can say take off the MCU's 2 highest grossing films and compare to spiderman, you dont remove the highest grossing films in the series, you remove, the ones closest to the average gross of the spiderman films

Still below Batman and those numbers dont mean too much, I mean the ENTIRE Marvel U. compared to just Batman alone who is still above them? What does that say really? Not to mention all the movies Marvel throws out the window every year, they are gonna burn out their characters faster than they can introduce them.

Good for Marvel. DC / Warner should take notes and after seeing these results, and start investing money and strategic efforts on developing their own superfranchises.

It will never end, unless something horribly wrong goes on in the superhero film world, yes more so than Green Lantern.

It's a film company, they aren't just gonna pack it in, and call it a good run. $$$ is all that matters. They'll whore out each of their franchises if they rake in the cash.

Also, Disney says hello.

@alucard, the Avengers franchise has yet to debut and your already predicting it playing second fiddle to the Bat's? Stay tuned next year ;P

Funny how batman alone shits on everything Marvel has put out. Don't f@ck with the batman.

If you combined the Spider-Man grosses with the Marvel Universe grosses-since they are all about Marvel characters,after all-all things Marvel would be outgrossing the`Star Wars saga.But once the Avengers,Dark Night Rises,and the Hobbit come out next year,these numbers are going to be seriously ridiculous....

Marvel keeps rubbing the proverbial salt into the WB/DC wound, ha ha! Haters gonna hate ;P

with the avengers,thor 2 & iron man 3 marvel studio's will be level with batman in amount of films & will surpass in box office takings.

the amazing spider-man i personally think could be the first spidey film to do a billion,shot in 3d extra dollars.

so many people think avengers will bring it up higher, i can see maybe surpassing spiderman, but not batman, it has to make over 300 million dollars PLUS what ever TDKR makes, it almost definitely has to break a billion, and since the highest grossing of the films is IM2 and that was not only poorly recieved but also only made around 600 million, so it has to earn half of its largest earning as well as mach the dark knight rises, assuming tdkr makes just a billion again, the avengers whould have to make 1,300,00,00 dollars to surpass it, to get into legistics, we look at numbers

baman begins made-$372,710,015
the dark knight made-$1,001,921,825
that is a 168% percent increase, if TDKR follows that, (it probably wont, but this is just speculation) it would make-$2,685,150,491
(that puts the batman franchise at-around four billion pushing it to #4)

By the time marvel is done it will be number one!

@projectgotham, 2 billion dollars, and i already said that i doubt that, but that is what math plus history tells us

also do your research avatar made over 2 billion, nearly 3 billion

so it isn't totally unlikely that TDKR could make anywhere from 1 billion to 2 billion dollars

@trat73
4th LOTR was the animated movie in the 70s or 80s, 7th star wars was clone wars.

i can do the math for the mcu

ironman to iroman 2 has a 6% increase

ironman to incredible hulk has as 54% decrease

incredible hulk to ironman 2 has a 136%

ironman 2 to thor has a 27% decrease

thor to captain america has a 21% decrease

math proves: if anything people are losing interest in these movie, and if anybody(general audience wise) sees the film, math tells us it will be for ironman

i will give you 2 predictions for the avengers, only predictions (this is what math tells, im am no prophet)

with the 6% increase added to ironman 2 we have: $625,789,392
we can say that is for either ironman 3 or for avengers you pick either way, still doesnt even come close to TDK or my TDKR prediction(2 billion)

but i will give you the benifit and the upper hand, by assuming people saw hulk and said, "hey that tony guy at the end, lets see him in sequel to a movie i never saw"

so from Incredible Hulk to Ironman 2(126% increase) we have:$1,405,848,761
this does indeed top TDK but even at the best chances for avengers, a 126 % percent increase to highest grossing MCU film, it still fails to even come gross the predicted gross of TDKR(2 billon)

with the MCU's best odds the franchise will make:$3,673,615,130 which puts it at the #5 space, one space below the estimated franchise gross of the Batman films (around 4 billion)


with the realistic odds (the ironman to ironman 2 odds) the franchise will have made:
$2,893,555,761
moving the MCU up to the #8 spot, 4 below the predicted batman film series gross

please dont try and argue with math, you hardly ever win

@gamecreatorjj - "my TDKR prediction(2 billion)"

Really? $700 million AT MOST :)

@gamecreatorjj - Unless, of course, one of the cast mysteriously dies again before the film is released :)

Personally I have been having a great time with these movies, and I see absolutely no reason why this should end.

Comic books make good movie material.

@coloso, you mean 6 films, the 7th hasnt been realeased yet, so the MCU has only one film less than batman

WINNING! The MCU will never end. Atleast, I hope it won't. With Disney's help. Kinda scary though, if they move too fast to send out these films we might see a reboot in a decade or so. Continuity means consideration from studios to the viewers. If I had to work for a studio, it would be Marvel. Because they have a cinematic universe, no favoritism here.