Marvel Studios

Marvel Studios, LLC (originally known as Marvel Films), is an American television and motion picture studio based in Manhattan Beach, California. As of 2015, Marvel Studios is one of the six production companies that make up The Walt Disney Studios. From 1996 to 2015, Marvel Studios was a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment (itself a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company since 2009), before being integrated directly into The Walt Disney Studios in August 2015. Walt Disney Pictures is the silent distributor to all Marvel Studios films.
Since 2008, the studio has released numerous independently produced films and television series with shared timeline, cast, and characters, making up the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
==History==
===2000s===
In 2009, Marvel attempted to hire a team of writers to help come up with creative ways to launch its lesser-known properties, such as Black Panther, Cable, Iron Fist, Nighthawk, and Vision.
On December 31, 2009, The Walt Disney Company purchased Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion, both Marvel and Disney stated that the merger would not affect any pre-existing deals with other film studios for the time being, although Disney said they would consider distributing future Marvel projects with their own studios once the current deals expire.
===2010s===
On October 18, 2010, Disney bought the distribution rights for The Avengers and Iron Man 3 from Paramount Pictures. However, as part of the deal, Paramount's logo would still be used in the promotion marketing and trailers for both films.
In June 2010, Marvel Studios set up a television division, headed up by Jeph Loeb as Executive Vice President, under which Marvel Animation will be operated.
On August 22, 2011 at Disney's behest, the Studio fired most of its marketing department: Dana Precious, EVP of Worldwide Marketing, Jeffrey Stewart, VP of Worldwide Marketing, and Jodi Miller, Manager of Worldwide Marketing. Disney took over the marketing of Marvel's films from this point onwards.
As part of the deal transferring the distribution rights of The Avengers and Iron Man 3 from Paramount Pictures to Disney, Paramount's logo appears in the films' promotional materials and merchandise. Nevertheless, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is credited at the end of these films.
Upon the release of The Amazing Spider-Man, Disney and Sony negotiated a two-way agreement. Disney would receive full merchandising ancillary rights to future Spider-Man films in exchange for Sony purchasing out Marvel's film participation rights.
By April 2013, Marvel Studios moved its production facilities from Manhattan Beach to Glendale, California, a location already populated by other Disney divisions.
On July 2, 2013, Disney purchased the distribution rights to Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger from Paramount. The rights were assigned to The Walt Disney Studios.
In 2015, after the release of Ant-Man, it was announced that, following a corporate restructuring, Marvel Studios would be moved to the main Walt Disney Studios division, with Kevin Feige reporting directly to Alan Horn instead of Marvel Entertainment CEO Isaac Perlumtter. The Marvel Television and Marvel Animation divisions, however, remained under Perlmutter's control. 
In 2018, it was reported that Marvel Studios would begin developing for Disney+, centered on "second tier" characters such as Loki and the Scarlet Witch, with Feige executive-producing the series, which would last six-to-eight episodes and have a similar budget to the MCU films.
In October 2019, it was reported that Feige would be named chief creative officer for Marvel. Under his new role, Marvel Television and Marvel Animation were returned to being within the Marvel Studios banner. Two months later, Marvel Television was folded into Marvel Studios, with the latter overseeing the former's remaining projects, with oversight headed by Marvel TV's former senior VP of current programming and production, Karim Zreik.
===2020s===
In 2021, it was announced that Marvel Studios would create its own animation branch after the release of its first animated series, What If...?. The studio will outsource its animation to third-party studios, though it remains open to a collaboration with Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar. 
Through 2021 and 2022, the studio began to branch out its productions towards non-MCU projects. In November 2021, it was reported that Marvel Studios was developing X-Men '97, a continuation of the 1992-97 series X-Men: The Animated Series. Additionally, Marvel Studios took over production for the preschool animated series Spidey and his Amazing Friends starting with its second season.
==Marvel character licensing==
At the time of The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of Marvel Entertainment in 2009, the film production rights to certain Marvel characters were licensed out to Constantin Film, New Line Cinema, New Regency Productions, 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures, and Lionsgate. Iron Man was the first character whose rights returned to Marvel Studios from New Line Cinema in 2004 before the acquisition followed by the return of the Black Panther rights from Columbia and Artisan Entertainment to Marvel Studios in 2005. In 2006, Lionsgate dropped the Black Widow film that they had planned allowing the rights to return to Marvel. That same year, the rights to Hulk reverted back to Marvel from Universal, however they let the rights to Marvel before they even expired. Universal still retains the right of first refusal to distribute future standalone Hulk films until the rights to The Incredible Hulk were transferred back to Walt Disney Pictures and Marvel Studios in June 2023 after 15 years.
After being acquired by Disney in 2009, Marvel began to reclaim more of the character rights that they licensed out to other studios starting with Blade in 2012.
In 2012, Marvel Entertainment CCO Joe Quesada believed Namor's rights had reverted to Marvel, but Feige said in August 2013 this was not so. However, Feige expanded in July 2014 saying that Marvel Studios, not Universal Pictures or Legendary Pictures, could make a Namor film, "but it's slightly more complicated than that. Let's put it this way – there are entanglements that make it less easy. There are older contracts that still involve other parties that mean we need to work things out before we move forward on it. As opposed to an Iron Man or any of the Avengers or any of the other Marvel characters where we could just put them in." In June 2016, Quesada again stated that, to his knowledge, the film rights to Namor had returned to Marvel. In October 2018, Feige noted the character could appear in the MCU, with the studio still deciding how it would use the character. The character first appeared in the MCU in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). In November 2022, Marvel Studios executive Nate Moore confirmed that they cannot make a standalone Namor film since Universal still holds the character's production rights, similar to the Hulk.
In August 2012, it was reported that 20th Century Fox was willing to allow the film rights to the superhero Daredevil and his related characters revert to Marvel and Disney, a contracted stipulation that required Fox to begin production on a new Daredevil film by late 2012. Fox had approached Marvel about extending the deadline and becoming a co-financier for the film, but was rebuffed. On October 10, 2012, the Daredevil film rights reverted to Marvel Studios, which was confirmed by studio president Kevin Feige on April 23, 2013.
On May 2, 2013, Feige confirmed in an interview that the Ghost Rider and The Punisher rights had reverted to Marvel from Sony and Lionsgate respectively, as well as reaffirming the acquisition of the Blade rights. It was later revealed in May 2013 that Marvel has also reacquired the rights to Luke Cage and Thor from Columbia Pictures. In an interview with Collider in early May 2013, Kevin Feige stated he believed the Elektra rights were back at Marvel through the Daredevil deal.
On February 2015, Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures signed a deal that would allow Spider-Man to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and would first appear in a Marvel movie before getting a solo movie on July 7, 2017. On June 2016, it was announced that the rights to Namor reverted to Marvel Studios from Universal Studios. On December 14, 2017, Disney purchased the movie and television divisions of 21st Century Fox, including the rights to the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and Deadpool. The full rights reverted back to Marvel Studios on March 20, 2019.
==Updated Logo==
Kevin Feige stated that since Marvel was now their own entity within The Walt Disney Company, it "felt like the time to update it and have something that is more substantial as a standalone logo in front of our features" instead of having it be accompanied by Marvel's studio or distribution partners' logos. Feige added that "We didn't want to re-invent the wheel [with the new logo], but we wanted it to feel bigger, to feel more substantial, which is why it starts with the flip, but suddenly it's more dimensional as we go through the lettering and it reveals itself with the metallic sheen before settling into the white-on-red, well known Marvel logo, with the added flourish of the arrival and the announcement of the Studios at the bottom of the word Marvel."
The new logo will be seen on all subsequent feature film releases, as well as the television series, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. With the addition of the new logo, Marvel Studios also added a fanfare to accompany the logo, composed by Brian Tyler, who wrote the scores to Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World.
==Films==
See also: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Year	Film 	Directed by 	Written by 	Distributor 	Budget 	Gross (Worldwide)
2008	Iron Man 	Jon Favreau 	Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum, and Matt Holloway 	Paramount Pictures 	$140 million 	$585,174,222
2008	The Incredible Hulk 	Louis Leterrier 	Zak Penn 	Universal Pictures 	$150 million 	$263,427,551
2010	Iron Man 2 	Jon Favreau 	Justin Theroux 	Paramount Pictures 	$200 million 	$623,933,331
2011	Thor 	Kenneth Branagh 	J. Michael Straczynski and Mark Protosevich Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz, and Don Payne 	Paramount Pictures 	$150 million 	$449,326,618
2011	Captain America: The First Avenger 	Joe Johnston 	Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely 	Paramount Pictures 	$140 million 	$370,569,774
2012	The Avengers 	Joss Whedon 	Zak Penn and Joss Whedon 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$220 million 	$1,518,812,988
2013	Iron Man 3 	Shane Black 	Drew Pearce and Shane Black 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$200 million 	$1,214,811,252
2013	Thor: The Dark World 	Alan Taylor 	Don Payne and Robert Rodat Christopher Yost, Christopher Markus, and Stephen McFeely 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$170 million 	$644,571,402
2014	Captain America: The Winter Soldier 	Anthony Russo and Joe Russo	Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$170 million 	$714,264,267
2014	Guardians of the Galaxy 	James Gunn 	James Gunn and Nicole Perlman 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$195 million 	$773,328,629
2015	Avengers: Age of Ultron 	Joss Whedon 	Joss Whedon 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$250 million 	$1,405,403,694
2015	Ant-Man 	Peyton Reed 	Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, Adam Mckay, and Paul Rudd 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$130 million 	$519,311,965
2016	Captain America: Civil War 	Anthony Russo and Joe Russo	Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$250 million 	$1,153,304,495
2016	Doctor Strange 	Scott Derrickson 	Jon Spaihts, Scott Derrickson, and C. Robert Cargill 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$165 million 	$677,718,395
2017	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 	James Gunn 	James Gunn 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$200 million 	$863,756,051
2017	Spider-Man: Homecoming 	Jon Watts 	John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Jon Watts, Christopher Ford, Chris McKenna, and Erik Sommers	Sony Pictures Releasing 	$175 million 	$​​​​​880,166,924
2017	Thor: Ragnarok 	Taika Waititi 	Eric Pearson, Christopher Yost, and Craig Kyle 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$180 million 	$853,977,126
2018	Black Panther 	Ryan Coogler 	Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$200-210 million	$1,346,529,123
2018	Avengers: Infinity War 	Anthony Russo and Joe Russo	Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$315 million 	$2,039,954,372
2018	Ant-Man and the Wasp 	Peyton Reed 	Andrew Barrer, Gabriel Ferrari, and Paul Rudd 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$162-195 million	$622,674,139
2019	Captain Marvel 	Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck 	Nicole Perlman, Meg LeFauve, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Liz Flahive, Carly Mensch, Anna Boden, and Ryan Fleck 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$152-175 million	$1,128,274,794
2019	Avengers: Endgame 	Anthony Russo and Joe Russo	Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$356 million 	$2,797,800,564
2019	Spider-Man: Far From Home 	Jon Watts 	Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers 	Sony Pictures Releasing 	$160 million 	$1,131,927,996
2021	Black Widow 	Cate Shortland 	Jac Schaeffer and Ned Benson Eric Pearson 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$200 million 	$379,631,351
2021	Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 	Destin Daniel Cretton 	David Callaham, Destin Daniel Cretton, and Andrew Lanham 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$150 million 	$432,243,292
2021	Eternals 	Chloé Zhao 	Matthew Firpo, Ryan Firpo, Chloé Zhao, and Patrick Burleigh 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$200 million 	$402,064,899
2021	Spider-Man: No Way Home 	Jon Watts 	Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers 	Sony Pictures Releasing 	$200 million 	$1,917,430,023
2022	Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	Sam Raimi 	Michael Waldron 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$200 million 	$955,775,804
2022	Thor: Love and Thunder 	Taika Waititi 	Taika Waititi and Jennifer Kaytin Robinson 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$250 million 	$760,928,081
2022	Werewolf by Night 	Michael Giacchino 	Peter Cameron and Heather Quinn 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	N/A 	N/A
2022	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 	Ryan Coogler 	Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$250 million 	$859,208,836
2022	The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special	James Gunn 	James Gunn 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	N/A 	N/A
2023	Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 	Peyton Reed 	Jeff Loveness 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$200 million 	$476,071,180
2023	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 	James Gunn 	James Gunn 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$250 million 	$844,778,479
2023	The Marvels 	Nia DaCosta 	Megan McDonnell, Nia DaCosta, and Elissa Karasik 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$274.8 million 	$206,111,661
2024	Deadpool & Wolverine 	Shawn Levy 	Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Zeb Wells, Ryan Reynolds, and Shawn Levy 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$200 million 	$1,337,900,827
2025	Captain America: Brave New World 	Julius Onah 	Julius Onah, Peter Glanz, and Matthew Orton 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	 	
2025	Thunderbolts* 	Jake Schreier 	Lee Sung Jin and Joanna Calo 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	 	
2025	The Fantastic Four: First Steps 	Matt Shakman 	Josh Friedman, Cameron Squires, Eric Pearson, and Peter Cameron 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	 	
2026	Avengers: Doomsday 	Anthony Russo and Joe Russo	Stephen McFeely 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	 	
2026	Spider-Man 4 	Destin Daniel Cretton 	Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers 	Sony Pictures Releasing 	 	
2027	Avengers: Secret Wars 	Anthony Russo and Joe Russo	Stephen McFeely 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	 	
TBA 	Shang-Chi 2 	Destin Daniel Cretton 	Destin Daniel Cretton 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	 	
TBA 	Blade 	 	Michael Starrbury, Nic Pizzolatto, Michael Green, and Eric Pearson 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	 	
TBA 	Armor Wars 	Damian Marcano 	Yassir Lester 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	 	
TBA 	Black Panther 3 	 	 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	 	
TBA 	Doctor Strange 3 	 	 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	 	
TBA 	Scarlet Witch 	 	Jac Schaeffer and Megan McDonnell 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	 	
TBA 	X-Men 	 	Michael Lesslie 	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	 	
==Disney+ series==
See also: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Year	Series 	Showrunner 	First released 	Last released 	Episodes	Status
2021	WandaVision 	Jac Schaeffer 	January 15, 2021 	March 5, 2021 	9 	Released
2021	The Falcon and The Winter Soldier 	Malcolm Spellman	March 19, 2021 	April 23, 2021 	6 	Released
2021	Loki (Season One) 	Michael Waldron 	June 9, 2021 	July 14, 2021 	6 	Released
2021	What If...? (Season One) 	A.C. Bradley 	August 11, 2021 	October 6, 2021 	9 	Released
2021	Hawkeye 	Jonathan Igla 	November 24, 2021 	December 22, 2021	6 	Released
2022	Moon Knight 	Jeremy Slater 	March 30, 2022 	May 4, 2022 	6 	Released
2022	Ms. Marvel 	Bisha K. Ali 	June 8, 2022 	July 13, 2022 	6 	Released
2022	I Am Groot (Season One) 	Kirsten Lepore 	August 10, 2022 	August 10, 2022 	5 	Released
2022	She-Hulk: Attorney at Law 	Jessica Gao 	August 18, 2022 	October 13, 2022 	9 	Released
2023	Secret Invasion 	Kyle Bradstreet 	June 21, 2023 	July 26, 2023 	6 	Released
2023	I Am Groot (Season Two) 	Kirsten Lepore 	September 6, 2023 	September 6, 2023	5 	Released
2023	Loki (Season Two) 	Eric Martin 	October 5, 2023 	November 9, 2023 	6 	Released
2023	What If...? (Season Two) 	A.C. Bradley 	December 22, 2023 	December 30, 2023	9 	Released
2024	Echo 	Marion Dayre 	January 9, 2024 	January 9, 2024 	5 	Released
2024	X-Men '97 (Season One) 	Beau DeMayo 	March 20, 2024 	May 15, 2024 	10 	Released
2024	Agatha All Along 	Jac Schaeffer 	September 18, 2024	October 30, 2024 	9 	Released
2024	What If...? (Season Three) 	Matthew Chauncey	December 22, 2024 	December 29, 2024	8 	In-production
2025	Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (Season One)	Jeff Trammell 	January 29, 2025 	TBA 	TBA 	In-production
2025	Daredevil: Born Again (Season One) 	Dario Scardapane	March 4, 2025 	April 29, 2025 	9 	Post-production
2025	Ironheart 	Chinaka Hodge 	June 24, 2025 	July 29, 2025 	6 	Post-production
2025	Eyes of Wakanda 	Todd Harris 	August 6, 2025 	August 27, 2025 	4 	In-production
2025	Marvel Zombies 	Zeb Wells 	October 3, 2025 	TBA 	4 	In-production
2025	Wonder Man 	Andrew Guest 	December 2025 	TBA 	10 	Post-production
2026	Vision Quest 	Terry Matalas 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA 	In-development
TBA 	Daredevil: Born Again (Season Two) 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA 	In-development
TBA 	X-Men '97 (Season Two) 	Beau DeMayo 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA 	In-development
TBA 	Nova 	Ed Bernero 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA 	In-development
TBA 	Untitled Olympians series 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA 	In-development
TBA 	Untitled Okoye series 	Ryan Coogler 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA 	In-development
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==Videos==
Marvel Studios - New Logo 2013 (HD)|The Marvel Logo (2013 - 2016)
NEW Marvel Studios Logo Released at Comic Con 2016|The new Marvel logo (2016 - 2020)
Marvel Studios (Black Widow) - 4K|The new Marvel logo with enhanced texture (2021 - present)
==Gallery==
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===On-screen logos===
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===10th Anniversary posters===
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