{"id":14932,"date":"2023-02-22T13:30:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T13:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14932"},"modified":"2025-02-17T14:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T14:13:53","slug":"the-5-highest-grossing-marvel-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/02\/22\/the-5-highest-grossing-marvel-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 highest-grossing Marvel movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Superhero movies have dominated the box office for a while now, with some making billions of dollars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s an exciting year for Marvel fans, with a number of films coming to the cinema this year, including <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantamania<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Marvels<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These new releases will no doubt smash it at the box office, so in the meantime, let&#8217;s have a look at the highest-grossing Marvel movies of all time!<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>In this blog:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#Avengers-Endgame\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avengers: Endgame<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Avengers-Infinity-War\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avengers: Infinity War<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Spider-Man-No-Way-Home\">Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#The-Avengers\">The Avengers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Avengers-Age-of-Ultron\">Avengers: Age of Ultron\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"Avengers-Endgame\">Avengers: Endgame<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Released in 2019, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avengers: Endgame<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the highest-grossing Marvel film to date and one of the highest-grossing films of all time!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regarded as one of the best MCU films, it focuses on the aftermath of Thanos wiping out half of the world&#8217;s population. Just as the Avengers go their separate ways, they find a way to retrieve all of the Infinity Stones. The Avengers reunite to take down Thanos and save the universe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avengers: Endgame<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has made around $2.79 billion, with a production budget of $356 million. However, it is the first film to achieve the title of the highest-grossing film of all time to not win an Oscar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few things you may not know about the film is it was Stan Lee\u2019s last ever cameo in a Marvel film. Also, Robert Downey Jr was the only actor who was given the entire script!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"Avengers-Infinity-War\">Avengers: Infinity War<\/h2>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avengers: Infinity War<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was the highest-grossing film of 2018 and its opening weekend was the biggest of all time. Then <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avengers: Endgame<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was released the year after, which beat it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The movie focuses on Thanos and his mission to wipe out half of the universe by collecting all six Infinity Stones. The Avengers team up with Wakanda\u2019s forces to fight Thanos and his army.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Making around $2.05 billion worldwide at the box office, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avengers: Infinity War <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">had a budget of $321 million. It even received a nomination for Best Visual Effects at the Oscars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You may not know, but the film was originally supposed to have a different title but Marvel decided to simplify it instead to avoid confusion. Plus, an early idea for the film was to introduce a new Marvel character but in the end, it didn\u2019t make much sense.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"Spider-Man-No-Way-Home\">Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Released during the pandemic, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> still made $1.9 billion worldwide at the box office and $260 million in its opening weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apart from an Avengers movie, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the most successful Marvel film. The sequel sees Peter Parker\u2019s identity revealed and he asks Doctor Strange for help, but the spell goes wrong. This leads to the multiverse being unlocked, and with it, supervillains from the different Spider-Man universes. Peter asks for help and this results in an iconic meeting between all three Spider-Men.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a budget of $200 million, it became the highest-grossing film of 2021. It was also nominated for an Academy Award and has gone on to win a Visual Effects Society award and Nickelodeon Kids\u2019 Choice awards.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"The-Avengers\">The Avengers<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Released way back in 2012, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Avengers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was the highest-grossing film of that year and has made $1.5 billion worldwide at the box office.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a budget of $220 million, it broke a whole load of records, including opening weekend for a film, opening weekend for any film and many more. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Avengers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first Avengers film sees Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye and Hulk coming together to fight Loki and his army after he opens a wormhole in New York City.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the UK, the film was given a different title, named <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marvel Avengers Assemble<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"Avengers-Age-of-Ultron\">Avengers: Age of Ultron<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Released in 2015, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avengers: Age Of Ultron<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> made $1.4 billion worldwide at the box office, with a $250 million budget.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It became the fourth highest-grossing film of 2015 and made $191.3 million in its opening weekend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avengers: Age of Ultron is set a few years later in Sokovia, where The Avengers find Lokis&#8217;s scepter. We see the introduction of characters such as The Maximoff twins, Pietro and Wanda. The film ends in a battle and the mid-credits tease that a villain will wreak havoc on the MCU.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aside from The Avengers movies, let\u2019s not forget some of the other highest-grossing films from Marvel, all of which grossed over $1 billion worldwide:<\/span><i><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black Panther\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iron Man 3\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Captain America: Civil War<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spider-Man Far From Home<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Captain Marvel<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Missing Marvel films from your DVD collection? 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We can&#8217;t promise it&#8217;ll make you as rich as Tony Stark, but you might be surprised by how much you make!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superhero movies have dominated the box office for a while now, with some making billions of dollars.\u00a0 It\u2019s an exciting year for Marvel fans, with a number of films coming to the cinema this year, including Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantamania, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3 and The Marvels.\u00a0 These &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":14942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14932"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18012,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14932\/revisions\/18012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}