"The ball got rolling back in late 2005 when Marvel, riding high off the box office successes of the Spider-Man and X-Men franchises, announced that it had secured funding to independently produce movies based on some of their most famous comic characters (well, at least the ones that hadn't already been sold to Sony or Fox). Marvel quickly went about regaining the film rights to such characters as Iron Man, the Hulk, Captain America, and Thor (i.e. the core Avengers), and began developing their own slate of in-house blockbuster hopefuls. Their first independently produced effort was this summer's Iron Man, which, as you and everyone else knows, made eleventy-jillion dollars (figures may be adjusted due to inflation and/or reality)."[via the dead bolt]
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