Eight decades ago, the bright-coloured Marvel Comic #1 made its way to the bookstands. With every battle won, Marvel's heroes built the multi-billion empire we know and love today.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe took fans on a spectacular 10-year-long journey. With the stunning story-lines, and tear-jerking, mind-blowing, and also utterly devastating moments the world's mightiest superheroes carved a place in our hearts and minds. Re-watching the many movies in the franchise surely makes for a fun, emotional and entertaining marathon! Here are five incredible facts on one of the biggest movie franchises in the world:
1. MCU Production Breaks The Bank
Well-made movies can sometimes come with a hefty price. With all the hyperrealistic CGIs (one of which was baby Groot's opening scene that took two years to make), costumes, explosives, and A-list celebrities, MCU had to cash in hundreds of millions of dollars to make each movie. Of the 21 films, the most expensive to date was Avengers: Age of Ultron—a whopping US$365,000,000 was spent on set—while the Endgame's production costs a little lower, estimated around US$350,000,000. Overall, the decade-long movie series cost for about four billion US dollars.