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Throughout history the human race has sought forms of applyment. Whether it be in the form of a simple game, a grandiose tournament or a simple play production, we become always sought to entertain ourselves. In recent years as the record industry has act to grow and evolve a new genre has emerged the mainstream popular culture. unity big idea changed the course of a genre and an entire Industry. That would be comic book movies. The first moderately successful Marvel involve was X-Men, this was the first time that the superhero genre made a successful passage from the comic book to the silver screen. It was a movie that was enjoyable non only just for fans but for non-fans of the comics as well. X-Men was released in 2000, the budget for the film was $75 meg, which is incredibly lowed comp ard to the average movie budget which is between $120-200 million these days. The Box office total for the film was $296,339,527, which back in 2000 would have been a sort of respectable box office fill up. Something to keep in mind about this movie is that the computer generated special personal effects that are so common in movies today, were rather under developed, which would lend to the small budget as well as the more practical effects that are featured in the movie. This is also why the film feels rather bland when one goes back and watches it now, at that place was a lot of walk and talking in this film, non much action.http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_filmhttp//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Marvel_Comics_moviesPrior to the X-Men movies though there had been three other Marvel movies that had been released, however all three could be deemed failures. The three films were the 1989 The Punisher, which was actually released directly... ... the Guardians of the Galaxy in August, and the Avengers 2 in 2015, followed by Ant-Man. Marvel has also made a deal with Netflix to create quatern shows based off their characters to be released in 2015, starting with Daredevil, which is a major(ip) slap in the face to 20th century Fox who antecedently owned the rights and I love it. The awesome part is that these shows go out take place in the established Marvel Cinematic Universe, then the quatern characters are going to come together into a mini serial called the defenders which is comparable to the avengers. This just goes to show how this idea of the shared universe has public exposure beyond just the cinema now, but to television as well, and not only just television but online movie streaming. These shows will neer actually be released on television, but purely on Netflix. Which will be a massive boost for Netflix and for marvel.