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.
Sometimes, a movie will shock you with how much it costs. The United Kingdom’s laws have made production data more transparent in recent years, as more and more studios take the country’s tax incentives and base some of their biggest projects there. Andor, the critically acclaimed Star Wars series, was filmed in England at a reported budget of around $650 million. Marvel’s most recent blockbuster, Deadpool & Wolverine, was produced on a reported budget of $533 million, making it one of the most expensive movies of all time. The list is topped, by the way, by Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens, which reportedly cost Disney $638 million to produce. Both those films are popular hits, but there’s one movie on the all-time list that you might not have seen coming. The movie in question recently saw a viewership spike on streaming, four years after its theatrical release.
In fact, it’s the fourth-most expensive Marvel Cinematic Universe film of all time, behind Deadpool & Wolverine, Avengers: Endgame, and Avengers: Infinity War. Unlike those films, the one we’re talking about failed to crack the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office, albeit just barely. In fact, it grossed almost $1 billion less than Spider-Man: No Way Home, which served as a direct precursor and provided it a massive box-office bump.
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, of course, about Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Directed by Sam Raimi and featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen in the lead roles, the film grossed $955 million worldwide against a reported budget of $414 million. The movie received mostly positive reviews and is now sitting at a 73% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The aggregator website’s consensus reads, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness labors under the weight of the sprawling MCU, but Sam Raimi’s distinctive direction casts an entertaining spell.” According to FlixPatrol, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was among the most-watched movies on Disney+ this week, when the streamer’s global leaderboard was topped by fellow MCU offering The Punisher: One Last Kill. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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In Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the MCU takes a deeper dive into the Multiverse and the unknown, introducing variants of Strange and other familiar friends and foes - including The Illuminati - and offers a new perspective on how it works and connects. The story follows Stephen Strange, now post-blip and no longer the Sorcerer Supreme. When a terrifying monster rampages through New York seeking to capture a young girl from another multiverse named America Chavez, Strange finds himself as her newfound protector. Unfortunately, his new foe is a former ally, Wanda Maximoff. To protect Chavez and stop Wanda’s rampage, Strange travels the Multiverse looking for answers - and encounters engrossing and terrifying realities that expand the Marvel Universe in a whole new way.