“Avengers: The Marvel Movie celebrates its tenth anniversary

“Avengers
The Marvel film celebrates its tenth anniversary

The Avengers first got together in 2012.

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It’s been an unbelievable ten years since the MCU finally got rolling with “Marvel’s The Avengers”.

The group of heroes consisted of a measly six warriors, the name Thanos only buzzed through space as a rumor and Loki (Tom Hiddleston, 41) gave the impression of a one-dimensional villain? That must have been a long time ago – and it is. On April 26, 2012, exactly ten years ago, the Avengers met for the first time in the blockbuster of the same name by Joss Whedon (57).

Everything has a beginning

The original Avengers were Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr., 57), Thor (Chris Hemsworth, 38), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson, 37), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo, 54), Captain America (Chris Evans, 40 ) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner, 51). The latter initially fought on the wrong side of the law. Loki had brought him under his control with mind manipulation and set him against his real friends.

The film’s unprecedented coup was not presenting the troupe to the audience all at once. Rather, you got to know them slowly and carefully in their own strips with “Iron Man” from 2008, the start of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and were therefore all the more pleased when they met for the first time in “Marvel’s The Avengers”. A recipe for success to which the series has always remained true. And the reason why the MCU is now an integral part of both cinema and TV.

The father of the success is primarily Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige (48). He somehow managed to unravel the confused legal situation for most of the Marvel comic heroes and to transport them into a coherent universe. Even Spider-Man, albeit with a delay and still some hiccups.

A success with announcement

A look at the box office immediately showed that the comic universe would have a great future. Within a very short time, the film grossed more than one billion US dollars worldwide, in the end it was more than 1.5 billion dollars. So that’s the first “Avengers” movie still the ninth highest-grossing film of all time. From his own ranks, he was only beaten by “Endgame” ($2.8 billion, second place) and “Infinity War” ($2.0 billion, fifth place).

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