by James Vinson

Whether you profess to be an art-house elitist or a chick flick fanatic, you cannot deny that The Avengers is Hollywood’s most ambitious cross-franchise project to date. Much like Nick Fury, Marvel Studios made a daring gamble when deciding to assemble The Avengers Initiative on the big screen – except they weren’t black. Whilst the film itself cost a modest sum of $220 million, when you add together the combined budgets of Marvel’s independently produced ‘set up movies’, The Avengers basically cost 860 million American dollars. Yeah, suck it James Cameron. Continue Reading