Power Players

June 16, 2015, 02:17 PM

http://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW/2015/Volume-38...

It wasn’t that long ago when Marvel decided to launch its own movie studio and turbo-boost the Avengers comic-book heroes by first releasing the hugely successful Iron Man film (starring Robert Downey Jr.) in 2008. Grossing more than $318 million, it was the birth of a franchise that then led to the release of The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, and several sequels, before culminating in Marvel’s The Avengers in 2012, which grossed more than $623 million.