Film Industry

1) How many films were there in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) at the time of this article?

Produced and released 30 films

2) How much money have the MCU films made in total according to this article?
more than 25 billion

3) Why did Marvel create the Avengers films?
 To create a new line of books to sell and to cross-promote Marvel Comics characters.

4) Who owns the rights to Spiderman and why is the character now appearing in Marvel films?
Spiderman is owned by Sony. The studio made a Spider-Man trilogy starring Tobey Maguire and soon afterwards rebooted the franchise less successfully with Andrew Garfield as the webslinger.

5) Which company owns the rights to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men?
Marvel Studios