MCU

 1) How many films were there in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) at the time of this article? 22

2) How much money have the MCU films made in total according to this article? $18.2bn

3) Why did Marvel create the Avengers films? In 2007, Marvel was recovering from bankruptcy and had sold off the film rights to some of the company's most popular characters like the X-Men and Spider-Man. However Marvel still owned super heros from the core Avengers team ,so they decided to bring these characters together for for the crossover film Avengers assemble .So the crossover was planned from the very beginning.

4) Who owns the rights to Spiderman and why is the character now appearing in Marvel films? Sony has the rights to Spiderman however some of the sold off Marvel characters are only now being seen because Marvel studios expect to regain the rights to some of their characters due to a merge between Disney and Fox.

5) Which company owns the rights to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men? 20th Century Fox

6) Look at the very end of the article. What has Disney announced regarding TV shows on their new streaming service Disney+? Disney has announced plans for several new Marvel TV series on Disney+.