Saturday
09Aug
Marvel Talks Future Projects, Mum on 'Spider-Man 4'
Saturday, August 9, 2008 at 1:32AM
When you get to be Marvel big, you get to talk about how
much money you're making and somehow it's legitimate news. Yahoo! Business
covered Marvel's second quarter earnings conference call, and during the
meeting, studio chief
David Maisel talked not just about the second
quarter of this year (which, of course, included both
Iron Man and
The Incredible Hulk as theatrical releases),
but also about the future. 
Reader Comments (8)
Hulk did very nicely thank you very , and as a journalist, you know nothing.
You're wrong on both counts. The expectations for Hulk were pretty high. And when a movie fails to double its budget in worldwide gross, that's a misfire on this level. It's not enough to simply make its money back, like it would be for an independently-produced feature that never sees a wide release. There are marketing costs to account for, the price of thousands of prints, the amount of money spent on theater rentals, junkets, premieres, etc.
So for a $150 million with that kind of profile to only draw $228 million internationally (which is less than almost any summer blockbuster save Speed Racer), it's not performing "very nicely."
Hey, I liked the movie a lot. Preferred it to Iron Man, which did much better business. But the fact is neither Hulk movie is terribly successful by Marvel's standards. If you think Marvel will spend another $150 million on a Hulk standalone film when neither one of them made that much in the U.S., you're wrong. He'll pop up in The Avengers, but the profit margin simply hasn't been there either time.
as a journalist, you know everything
Hulk sucks, the first one have a lot of story, the second one have no story at all, i think it was a waste of time, and iron man, come on he only appears 3 times during the movie, the fact that robert downey jr. is speaking ill of the dark knight only tells me one thing, marvel is digging their own grave, you'll se avengers will suck, ant man? come on, i only hope they take dark knight as an example and begin make things right.
Your all talking complete poo.
Look at what Marvel has created! Spiderman, XMEN, Punisher, etc. Iron Man was brilliant and so was the second Hulk. Super Hero movies work they attract all audiences with the querky humour and the amazing special effects. Personally Spidey 4 cannot come soon enough! And this colaboration with the Avengers will be ace!!!! All our faves battling together against probably all of the villians! Imagine how great the future of cinema will be!!! Forget Dark Knight, over hyped trash because of a dead actor! Well played but ruined by the likes of a extremely wooden Christian Bale! Signing Out!
What the crap!!! The Dark Knight is not a movie that is "over hyped trash because of a dead actor"!!! The Dark Knight was a work of art and it is the best superhero movie ever. The movie would have still done well at the box office if Heath Ledger was still alive. His performance deserves at least an oscar nod, Can you say that about any other superhero movie? no. thats what I thought. Ledger was just amazing as the Joker. I love the Spiderman movies and all but they are just fun entertainment nothing more. They don't have any substances. The Dark Knight was funny and serious. It didn't feel like your normal superhero movie, it was a good quality movie.
Oh and the Hulk movies are terrible. Maybe, I just don't have enough imagination to take a huge green man running around fighting another hulk on steriods. The Incredible Hulk was good when the Hulk wasn't around but when he was I couldn't help from laughing.
The Dark Knight was a movie you could take seriously and it had a message. Also, The Dark Knight was the first movie to break tie the record set by LOTR:ROTK of being number 1 at the box office for 4 weeks, Spidey couldn't even do that
if u ask me i reckon that the release of all spidey 4, capain america, and avengers, being in the same year i sgood, so what, i have no doubt that they will all be excellent, super hero movies are always, good, especially lately, they're doing nothing but getting better with time, and i think that 2011 will one hell of a year for cinema.
I think they should make another Daredevil movie. That first one was the best super hero movie ever.