He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.
With the jury still out on how interested audiences are in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday, Marvel Studios can celebrate an achievement this week. Several of its past hits made appearances on the domestic Disney+ viewership charts, underscoring why the MCU remains the highest-grossing film franchise of all time. Beginning in 2008 with the first Iron Man film, the superhero franchise has generated more than $30 billion worldwide. Avengers: Doomsday is being viewed as a make-or-break moment in the franchise’s history, after an uneven half-decade that has seen it fall to unprecedented depths. During this time, Marvel has released outright box-office bombs such as ***The Marvels ***and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, as well as unexpected underperformers such as The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
Marvel is leaving no stone unturned to make sure audiences give the franchise another chance with Avengers: Doomsday, bringing back not only directors Joe Russo and Anthony Russo but also Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans. The Russo brothers joined the franchise with ***Captain America: The Winter Soldier***and were then handed the reins to Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, which together grossed nearly $5 billion worldwide. However, this past weekend saw an earlier Avengers movie strike back on streaming. It remains the most divisive of the four Avengers films so far, but it featured perhaps the most human sequence in any of them.
Based on your answers, the Marvel hero who matches your spirit, values, and instincts has been revealed.
You carry the weight of the world on shoulders that are younger than they should have to be — funny, loyal, and endlessly self-sacrificing.
You fight in the shadows between law and chaos, guided by a fierce moral compass that refuses to let the guilty walk free.
Brilliant, driven, and occasionally insufferable — but always the person who solves the unsolvable problem.
You’ve been through fire that would break most people — and it did change you, completely. What’s left is unyielding, relentless, and operating by a code forged in grief.
Powerful, proud, and on a lifelong journey to become worthy of the legend you carry.
You believe in something bigger than yourself — and you fight for it even when the world has moved on and nobody else will.
We’re talking about Avengers: Age of Ultron, whose farm sequence director Joss Whedon fought the studio tooth and nail to retain. The scene introduces Hawkeye’s family and instantly injects the film with a shot of humanity. To make sure it stays, Whedon agreed to include a studio-mandated scene in which Thor has a premonition. Age of Ultron proved to be rather prophetic about artificial intelligence and foreshadowed the Captain America-Mjolnir moment in Endgame, but it also included strange creative decisions such as introducing a romantic subplot between Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) and Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson). The movie grossed $1.4 billion worldwide against a reported budget of nearly $500 million. Fun fact: it’s the most expensive MCU movie ever made. According to FlixPatrol, it was among the most-watched films on Disney+ domestically this week, when the leaderboard was topped by Spider-Man: No Way Home. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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Jon Favreau, Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Patricia Whitcher, Stan Lee, Victoria Alonso, Jeremy Latcham
When Tony Stark and Bruce Banner try to jump-start a dormant peacekeeping program called Ultron, things go horribly wrong and it’s up to Earth’s mightiest heroes to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plan.