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

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

Marvel's massive film project has joined the ranks of the greatest film franchises of all time!

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By Xenix - Sep 18, 2011 11:09 AM EST
Filed Under: Marvel Comics
Source: BoxOfficeMojo



According to BoxOfficeMojo, the Marvel Cinematic Univese (referred to On BOM as the 'Avengers' franchise, and on Wikipedia as the MCU itself) has raked in enough money to enter the Top Ten list of Franchises, with a current total of $2,267,766,369, just 230 million behind the famous Spider-Man trilogy, which will gain a new addition next year with the highly-anticipated Amazing Spider-Man.




The Marvel Cinematic Universe also currently has, out of the top ten list, the second highest average gross per film, behind Spider-Man, and ahead of Batman.



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croniccris
croniccris - 9/18/2011, 10:51 AM
shibbie
PaulRom
PaulRom - 9/18/2011, 11:00 AM
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
SudsMerrick
SudsMerrick - 9/18/2011, 11:01 AM
At the frequency that they put out interconnecting films this has the power to beat out the combined Bond and Potter T.W.B. within 4-6 years. Marvel's business model is unique and I can't wait to see how things go. So far all 5 films have been successful and I don't see Avengers failing but having Disney behind them really helps if they ever had a flop that detered people for a few years.
marvel72
marvel72 - 9/18/2011, 11:13 AM
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.
Supes17
Supes17 - 9/18/2011, 11:22 AM
Lmao if it wasn't for TDK, Batman wouldn't even be on the list:p
Supes17
Supes17 - 9/18/2011, 11:23 AM
Hats off to Marvel
Neo3
Neo3 - 9/18/2011, 11:31 AM
@Xenix With Avatar 2 it will be #2 and within a week of Avatar 3 release should be #1.
Neo3
Neo3 - 9/18/2011, 11:35 AM
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.
BooYah
BooYah - 9/18/2011, 11:41 AM
Cool! Go Marvel!

Avengers FTW!
JackDexx
JackDexx - 9/18/2011, 11:58 AM
bout to move up some too!
DELBERT
DELBERT - 9/18/2011, 12:07 PM
i really like most of the marvel films but i dont see how it is considered as a franchise when all its films are about separate characters but they will be together in the avengers which will be awesome but all the others on that list are about the same characters repeating in each film
Neo3
Neo3 - 9/18/2011, 12:30 PM
@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.
gamecreatorjj
gamecreatorjj - 9/18/2011, 1:00 PM
but still below batman
gamecreatorjj
gamecreatorjj - 9/18/2011, 1:09 PM
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
marvel72
marvel72 - 9/18/2011, 1:34 PM
spider-man is the cbm franchise to beat 3 spider-man vs 7 batman & whats the difference batman is winning by less than $100,000,000.

@ Xenix

okay maybe not with a sequel but avatar 3 as well if they all make the same amount of money,the avatar trilogy would of gross over $8 billion.
Oxion
Oxion - 9/18/2011, 2:58 PM
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.
ROMACK
ROMACK - 9/18/2011, 3:27 PM
Cool news. Love to hear about the prosperity of CBMs.
Fogs
Fogs - 9/18/2011, 4:00 PM
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.
LucasMend
LucasMend - 9/18/2011, 4:05 PM
awesome news, after the avengers it should be the first or close to it :)

Coloso
Coloso - 9/18/2011, 4:08 PM
Go Marvel! It's your birthday!

Coloso
Coloso - 9/18/2011, 4:12 PM
@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
Sentrybob
Sentrybob - 9/18/2011, 4:13 PM
its funny cause spiderman shoud be part of it
braveone
braveone - 9/18/2011, 4:15 PM
Funny how batman alone shits on everything Marvel has put out. Don't f@ck with the batman.
cwatts22
cwatts22 - 9/18/2011, 4:24 PM
I don't think that this list is completely fair. All 7 Batman films should not be counted as one franchise, but as 3 (the first being the tv series based movie, then the one from the 90's, and then the Nolan series). The Lord of the Rings should also be separated (the animated, and Peter Jackson's). And, when the new spider man comes out, it should be separate. I know it really doesn't matter that much, but it was just bugging me.


Side note, @ProjectGotham, you also forgot Batman: The Movie for 7.
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