The Avengers. . .

[Boges]

Wake me up when they combine Guardians of the Galaxy with the Avengers and have a showdown with Thanos.

Probably Avengers 3. They'll do a Guardians sequel and a Thor 3 first.

[Black Dog]

Announcing the full lineup today:

Noteable: all dudes.

[Boges]

So they're doing the Infinity Gauntlet in multiple parts. Makes sense.

[Black Dog]

Updated (serpent society was a fake out)

[kimmy]

Marvel's Cinematic Universe is big box office. Fox's X-Men movie franchise is also big box office. Fox's Fantastic Four movie franchise is ... uh, well, the X-Men franchise is big box office. And with all these hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, it should be no surprise that behind the scenes there is conflict between Marvel/Disney and Fox (which of licensed the movie rights to several of the Marvel comic books, most notably the X-Men and Fantastic Four).

Particularly interesting-- Marvel has apparently killed off the Fantastic Four comic book, after 50 years. Fox owns the Fantastic Four movie rights until 2020 or something like that, so Marvel has apparently decided to just kill the comic book, in an effort to cut the legs out from under the Fantastic Four movie franchise (from what I've read, what really damages the Fantastic Four movie franchise is the Fantastic Four movies... but that's beside the point.)

Of course, Marvel isn't going to kill off the X-Men comics, because-- unlike the Fantastic Four-- the various X-Men comics are among Marvel's top sellers. But they did kill off an X-Men animated TV series, which had been an unprecedented success... because they just didn't feel like producing a TV show that promoted the competition's movies. And they've put a ban on introducing new characters in the X-Men comics. New characters have to come from other comic series so that Fox doesn't get movie rights to that character.

As well, since Marvel/Disney owns the merchandise rights to the X-Men characters, they aren't making merchandise for the competitors' movies. So Fox has no merch for their movies. Next time you wander through a Wal Mart you'll see 80 metric tons of Captain America, Thor, Black Widow, Iron Man backpacks and action figures and bed sheets and lunch boxes... and zero Wolverine backpacks and lunchboxes.

Anyway, I thought this was interesting:

-k

[blueblood]

Marvel's Cinematic Universe is big box office. Fox's X-Men movie franchise is also big box office. Fox's Fantastic Four movie franchise is ... uh, well, the X-Men franchise is big box office. And with all these hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, it should be no surprise that behind the scenes there is conflict between Marvel/Disney and Fox (which of licensed the movie rights to several of the Marvel comic books, most notably the X-Men and Fantastic Four).

Particularly interesting-- Marvel has apparently killed off the Fantastic Four comic book, after 50 years. Fox owns the Fantastic Four movie rights until 2020 or something like that, so Marvel has apparently decided to just kill the comic book, in an effort to cut the legs out from under the Fantastic Four movie franchise (from what I've read, what really damages the Fantastic Four movie franchise is the Fantastic Four movies... but that's beside the point.)

Of course, Marvel isn't going to kill off the X-Men comics, because-- unlike the Fantastic Four-- the various X-Men comics are among Marvel's top sellers. But they did kill off an X-Men animated TV series, which had been an unprecedented success... because they just didn't feel like producing a TV show that promoted the competition's movies. And they've put a ban on introducing new characters in the X-Men comics. New characters have to come from other comic series so that Fox doesn't get movie rights to that character.

As well, since Marvel/Disney owns the merchandise rights to the X-Men characters, they aren't making merchandise for the competitors' movies. So Fox has no merch for their movies. Next time you wander through a Wal Mart you'll see 80 metric tons of Captain America, Thor, Black Widow, Iron Man backpacks and action figures and bed sheets and lunch boxes... and zero Wolverine backpacks and lunchboxes.

Anyway, I thought this was interesting:

-k

I wonder if disney will pull the old star wars move and buy fox's rights to x-men out. Someones head needs to roll at fox. Star wars, x-men, fantastic four. Yikes!!

Personally im tired of the comic book stuff. They keep "re booting" All the damn time. Cant blame them because its a goldmine in this fad.