History of the MCU History

• September 6, 2005

  Marvel Enterprises Inc. secures $525-million loan deal with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc to make 10 movies based on the company’s properties over eight years

• March 2007

  Kevin Feige named President of Production

• Phase One Begins

  May 4^th, 2008
  Iron Man released

• August, 31^st, 2009 | The Walt Disney Company purchases Marvel Entertainment for $4 Billion.

  

• May 7^th, 2010
  Iron Man 2 released

• May 6^th, 2011
  Thor released

• July 22^nd, 2011
  Captain America: The First Avenger is released

• May 4^th, 2012
  The Avengers is released

• May 6^th, 2012
  Avengers breaks opening-weekend domestic box-office record ($207 Million)

• Phase Two Begins

  May 3^rd, 2013
  Iron Man 3 released

• November 8^th, 2013
  Thor: The Dark Work is released

• April 4^th, 2014
  Captain America: The Winter Soldier is released

• August 1^st, 2014
  Guardians Of The Galaxy is released

• February 9^th, 2015

  Sony and Disney agree to a deal that will allow Spider-Man to come to the MCU. Under the agreement, both studios will jointly produce a solo Spidey film that will be released in summer of 2017.  Disney will also be allowed to use the character in other MCU films (Captain: America Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame)

  

• May 1^st, 2015
  Avengers: Age Of Ultron is released

• July 17^th, 2015
  Ant-Man is released

• August 2015

  Disney CEO Bob Iger integrates Marvel Studios into Walt Disney Studios. Kevin Feige now reports to Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn instead of Marvel Entertainment CEO Isaac Perlmutter. The move was made after Feige and his team began getting frustrated with Perlmutter.

  

  

• Phase Three Begins

  May 6^th, 2016
  Captain America: Civil War is released

• November 4^th, 2016
  Doctor Strange is released

• May 5^th, 2017
  Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 is released

• July 7^th, 2017
  Spider-Man: Homecoming is released

• November 3^rd, 2017
  Thor: Ragnarok is released

• February 16^th, 2018
  Black Panther is released

• April 27^th, 2018
  Avengers: Infinity War is released

• April 29^th, 2018
  Infinity War breaks opening-weekend records for domestic gross ($257 Million) and worldwide gross ($640 Million)

• July 6^th, 2018
  Ant-Man and the Wasp is released

• March 8^th, 2019
  Captain Marvel is released

• April 26^th, 2019
  Avengers: Endgame is released

• April 28^th, 2019
  Endgame breaks opening-weekend records for domestic gross ($357 Million) and worldwide gross ($1.223 Billion)

  

• July 2^nd, 2019
  Spider-Man: Far From Home is released

• July 20^th, 2019
  Endgame passes Avatar to become the all-time highest-grossing film worldwide ($2.798 Billion)

• July 20^th, 2019
  Feige announces at San Diego Comic-Con the upcoming
  Phase 4 slate:
  Black Widow (May 1^st, 2020),
  The Falcon and Winter Soldier (Disney+, Aug, 2020),
  The Eternals (Nov. 6^th, 2020),
  WandaVision (Disney+, Dec. 2020),
  Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings (Feb. 12, 2021),
  Loki (Disney+, Early 2021),
  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (May 7^th, 2021),
  Hawkeye (Disney+, Late 2021),
  Thor: Love and Thunder (Nov. 5^th, 2021),
  Blade (Unknown)

• August 20^th, 2019
  Sony and Disney break off negotiations on jointly producing a third Spider-Man film. Next Spider-Man would not take place in the MCU.

  

• September 27^th, 2019
  Sony and Disney reach agreement on jointly producing a third-film, mean Spider-Man will remain in the MCU.

  

• October, 2019
  Feige is promoted to Chief Creative Officer and will now oversee the creative direction of Marvel Television and Marvel Family Entertainment, in addition to Marvel Studios.

  

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