
Phase Two comprises Iron Man 3 (2013), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), and Ant-Man (2015).Ĭaptain America: Civil War (2016) is the first film of Phase Three, and is followed by Doctor Strange (2016), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures began distributing the series with the crossover film The Avengers (2012), which concluded Phase One. Paramount also distributed Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011), and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), while Universal Pictures distributed The Incredible Hulk (2008). Its first film is Iron Man (2008), which was distributed by Paramount Pictures. Marvel Studios releases its films in groups called "Phases". The films are written and directed by a variety of individuals and feature large, often ensemble, casts. Kevin Feige has produced every film in the series, alongside Avi Arad for the first two releases, Gale Anne Hurd for The Incredible Hulk, Amy Pascal for the Spider-Man films, Stephen Broussard for Ant-Man and the Wasp and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Jonathan Schwartz for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Nate Moore for Eternals, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Captain America: Brave New World, Brad Winderbaum for Thor: Love and Thunder, Ryan Reynolds and Shawn Levy for Deadpool 3, and Eric Carroll for Blade. This includes Avengers: Endgame, which became the highest-grossing film of all time at the time of its release.

It is the highest-grossing film franchise of all time, having grossed over $29.6 billion at the global box office. The films have been in production since 2007, and in that time Marvel Studios has produced and released 32 films, with at least 11 more in various stages of development. The MCU is the shared universe in which all of the films are set.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films are a series of American superhero films produced by Marvel Studios based on characters that appear in publications by Marvel Comics.
