Many viewers have believably wondered why they see the Marvel slogan at the beginning of tons of movies , but they are n’t remotely related to theMarvel Cinematic Universe . Or possibly viewers have seen more than one interpretation of the same quality in different movies , or that they ’ve heard the same characters or foreign race mentioned that have seem in a completely dissimilar serial .

Though most superhero movies that have been released in the past 22 years begin out as a Marvel comic Bible , Marvel Studios did n’t make out to actually making its own movies until they had already licensed out the right to many of their most popular part . This has lead to countless franchises , reboots , and most of all , audience confusedness .

1998 - New Line Cinema Gets The Licensing Rights To Blade

Marvel first handed over their type   licensing right   in 1998 , when they gaveBladeto   New Line Cinema . This was enceinte for Marvel as they did n’t have any financial involvement or care about the development or the production of the moving-picture show , but   they would still get a   snub of the movie ’s profit and glean in the rewards regardless . New Line Cinema bring about threeBlademovies , but the right wing to the character have since gone back to Marvel Studios , and the studio is currently developing a more home favorable version of the vampire .

2000 - 20th Century Fox Gets The Licensing Rights To X-Men

Two years afterBlade’ssuccess , Marvel licensed the rights toX - Mento 20th Century Fox , which was a major sight for the studio as the series is a massive money maker and has bring in billions of dollar as the character include not only theX - Men , butDeadpooltoo . though there were a lot of dissimilar doer whoalmost starred in the first X - Men movie , the final product result in Hugh Jackman being couch as the now iconic Wolverine .

At a similar sentence , twentieth Century Fox also procure the rights toFantastic Fourand their baddie . However , the studio has n’t take in as much succeeder with those , as 2005’sFantastic Fourand it ’s continuation , Fantastic Four : hike of the Silver Surferwere critically pan , and the 2015 reboot was a box seat federal agency failure .

2002 - Sony Gets The Licensing Rights To Spider-Man

With all of the unbelievable updates getting announced about the nextSpider - Manmovie , peculiarly the news about Jamie Foxx reprize his role as Electro , which wouldchange the MCU in so many unlike way , the rights to the World Wide Web - slinger are brain - fryingly confusing .

As Sony has the rights to makeSpider - Manmovies , they have made three dissimilar serial , starting with Toby Maquire ’s trilogy , then the failedAmazing Spider - Manseries , and now with Tom Holland ’s take on Peter Parker . This licensing agreement include all of Spider - Man ’s villains , which means that Marvel do n’t have the ability to utilise those character unless a further deal is reached .

2003 - Universal Gets The Rights To Hulk

Many consider that 2008’sThe Incredible Hulkis a sequel to Ang Lee ’s Hulk , but the two are totally unrelated and the 2003 movie is actually produced by Universal Pictures . It is the final Marvel character reference to be given to another studio apartment before Marvel created its own movie studio . Universal   did n’t take advantage of the character like Sony did with Spider - Man or 20th Century Fox did with X - Men , asHulkwas the only movie that the studio apartment made before the rights went back to Marvel .

2004 - Marvel Studios Begins

In 2004 , Marvel looked at all of the movies that were getting produce and making hundreds of billion of dollars at the box office , particularlySpider - Man , as the movie hold the record for cock-a-hoop opening weekend of all sentence , and they wondered why they were n’t make the moving-picture show themselves .

Though it cost them nothing and they were make money without any risk , the gash of the Proto-Indo European was substantially   small compare to what they would have been bringing in if they produced the movies themselves . That ’s when Marvel Studios opened its doorway and the company stopped dedicate characters to other studio apartment .

2008 - Marvel Studios Gets The Rights To The Hulk Back

In 2008 , Marvel Studios got the rights back to the Hulk from Universal Pictures , and they used it to make the first picture in the Marvel   cinematic universe , The Incredible Hulk . However , not only do people think it ’s a sequel to Hulk from 2003 , but they also do n’t agnise that it ’s formally a part of the MCU , as it ’s Edward Norton who plays the nominal character instead of   Mark Ruffalo , who has played him in every film sinceThe Avengersin 2012 .

2012 - 20th Century Fox and Marvel Studios Share Quicksilver and Scarlett Witch Rights

The introduction of Quicksilver in to the MCU inAvengers : Age of Ultronmay have been perplexing to many , as just one class before , a much different adaptation of the   same character come along inX - Men : sidereal day of Future Past .

Though they are much better known as mutants than superheroes , Marvel Studios are still take into account to use the characters , the Marvel film just are n’t allowed to call them   mutants or advert to the fact that they are Magneto ’s children . There are a lot ofweird fact about their relationship , but Marvel make up one’s mind to keep them as siblings , as match to Quicksilver tantalize solo in theX - Menseries .

2015 - Sony Makes A Deal With Marvel For Spider-Man To Be In The MCU

To enable Spidey to conjoin the Avengers , Sony and Marvel Studios struck up a deal together where Sony retain the right to keep making movies of Spider - Man ( and his villains , ) but it ’s still part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe . However , Sony still finance the movies and they do still have full originative control over the Spider - Man movies , it just postulate the two studios to work together .

2017 - 20th Century Fox and Marvel Studios Share Skrull and Kree Rights

There ’s stilla batch to know about the Skrullsthat was n’t inCaptain Marvel , and that may have something to do with the fact that twentieth Century Fox currently had some form of rights to them at the metre . It was also rumored to be the rationality that it was the Chithari that served as Loki ’s minions instead of the Skrulls inThe Avengers . But asGuardians of the Galaxyfeatures a identification number of Kree fibre and they are the anti - heroes ofCaptain Marvel , it ’s safe to say that the theatrical role / race are in the same situation as Quicksilver and Scarlett Witch , as both studios can utilise them .

2018 - Sony’s Venom Begins A New Cinematic Universe

ThoughVenomwas critically trash and it   has inspired a set ofhilarious memes , the movie was a massive boxwood office succeeder , as it made of $ 850 million worldwide . Sony has been trying to create a cinematic world of Spidey ’s villains for a retentive time now , but with the expiration and success of Venom , it ’s potential that audiences will get that and it ’ll be completely unrelated to the MCU .

Venom is where it find puzzling for the pic universes , as it reportedly partake in the same universe as the current Spider - Man movies , but not with the Marvel Cinematic Universe . Unless Marvel Studios tries to cut another deal with Sony about including the reference in the MCU , it ’s extremely unlikely that we ’ll see the head - eater crossover with the Avengers anytime soon .

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The Incredible Hulk (2008)

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