query: who wrote the score for avengers infinity war

pos: Avengers: Infinity War (soundtrack) the regular edition. All music composed by Alan Silvestri. All music composed by Alan Silvestri. Avengers: Infinity War (soundtrack) Avengers: Infinity War – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the film score for the Marvel Studios film "" by Alan Silvestri. Hollywood Records released the soundtrack album digitally on April 27, 2018, and in physical formats on May 18, 2018. In June 2016, Alan Silvestri, who composed the score for "The Avengers", was revealed to be returning to score both "Infinity War" and its sequel. Although Silvestri reprised the main theme he introduced in the first "Avengers" film, he stated there

pos: Avengers: Infinity War (soundtrack) Avengers: Infinity War (soundtrack) Avengers: Infinity War – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the film score for the Marvel Studios film "" by Alan Silvestri. Hollywood Records released the soundtrack album digitally on April 27, 2018, and in physical formats on May 18, 2018. In June 2016, Alan Silvestri, who composed the score for "The Avengers", was revealed to be returning to score both "Infinity War" and its sequel. Although Silvestri reprised the main theme he introduced in the first "Avengers" film, he stated there were discussions to try and incorporate each character's individual established motif in his score, "but

pos: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame [them] yet." By late July, Marvel announced that "Part 1" would simply be known as "Avengers: Infinity War", while "Part 2" was referred to as "Untitled Avengers" film until a title was chosen. Anthony Russo stated that the title of the second film would not be revealed "for quite some time", with Feige and the Russo brothers indicating the title was being withheld as it would give away plot details for "Infinity War" and the sequel. In June 2016, composer Alan Silvestri was revealed to be returning from "The Avengers" to score both films. In October, Feige announced that filming

pos: Avengers: Infinity War release of "Infinity War" in the United States to April 27, 2018, to have it be released the same weekend as some of its international markets. Visual effects for the film were created by Industrial Light & Magic, Framestore, Method Studios, Weta Digital, DNEG, Cinesite, Digital Domain, Rise, Lola VFX, and Perception. With an estimated budget in the range of $316–400 million, it is one of the most expensive films ever made. Evans and Hemsworth both earned $15 million for the film. In June 2016, Alan Silvestri, who composed the score for "The Avengers" (2012), was revealed to be returning

pos: Avengers: Infinity War introduces the notion that the "Infinity War" films are going to function as a passing of the torch, from one set of Avengers to a newer group." Scott Mendelson, writing for "Forbes", noted that even though the trailer was not much different from the convention footage screened earlier in the year, it was "damn impressive. Moreover, it uses Nick Fury's big 'Avengers Initiative' speech, along with Alan Silvestri's Avengers theme, to excellent effect." Conversely to Mendelson, Alexander commented on the different marketing strategy for the film between the convention footage scenes and the trailer scenes, feeling the "two couldn't be

neg: Infinity (comic book) of 8.0, the "Avengers" comics involved (#18-#23) an average of 7.6, the "New Avengers" comics involved (#9-#12) an average of 8.1, which gives the overall event an average "positive" score of 7.9. ("Note: The Average Score ComicBook Round Up gave the Infinity Event on their website consists of multiple comics that link to Infinity instead of being part of it, like the issues previously listed are." ) ComicBook Round Up gave Infinity: Omnibus, which collects Infinity #1-6, Avengers #14-23, The New Avengers #7-12, and Infinity: Against the Tide Infinite Comic #1-2, an average "positive" score of 7.8. IGN gave Infinity

neg: Avengers: Infinity War (soundtrack) in "" with the Tesseract, saying, "The music for the Infinity Stones is actually built around Thanos' reaction. Every time he got one, that moment was always significant and often times emotional." Silvestri's score is all orchestral. Silvestri does use Ludwig Göransson's theme from "Black Panther" in the film, which is something Göransson had been hoping would happen given he was not involved in the "Infinity War" score. The film also includes "The Rubberband Man" by The Spinners when the Guardians of the Galaxy first appear, which was chosen by "Infinity War" executive producer and director of the "Guardians of

neg: Avengers: Endgame to score both "Infinity War" and "Endgame". Germain Lussier of io9 spoke on the approach Marvel might have to take in marketing the film, given the end of "Infinity War", which sees many established characters die. He questioned if those characters would appear on posters and in toy campaigns, and if the actors portraying them would participate in press events leading up to the film's release. Lussier felt Disney and Marvel could focus on the original Avengers team members, who make up the majority of the living characters, but noted it would be more beneficial to show the return of

neg: Infinity (comic book) out of 10, Infinity #5 a score of 6 out of 10 and Infinity #6 a score of 8 out of 10. SciFiNow called Infinity the "best comic event ever", calling it "about life and death", stating it "makes the Avengers truly iconic" and that it "offers closure where other events fail". Jonathan Hickman was nominated a "Best Writer" Eisner Award for "Infinity" as well as "East of West", "The Manhattan Projects" and "Avengers". Infinity (comic book) "Infinity" is a 2013 comic book crossover storyline that was published by Marvel Comics. Written by Jonathan Hickman with artwork by a rotating

neg: Avengers: Infinity War a supervillain." McCarthy also praised the film's action sequences, saying ""Infinity War" brims with tensely spectacular combat sequences, even if the question of who's going to win each one has that extravagantly arbitrary could-Mighty-Mouse-beat-up-Superman? quality." Gleiberman called the scale of the action, "astonishing", and Travers wrote, ""Avengers: Infinity War" leaves viewers up in the air, feeling exhilarated and cheated at the same time, aching for a closure that never comes...at least not yet." Josh Spiegel, also of "The Hollywood Reporter", said the film takes "a cue from the ending of "The Empire Strikes Back" in its super-sized finale; this is

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame in Marvel Studios' early films by introducing the Infinity Stones and the Infinity Gauntlet. Casting began in mid-2013 with Robert Downey Jr. signing on to reprise his role as Tony Stark / Iron Man, with the films officially announced a year later as "Avengers: Infinity War – Part 1" and "Avengers: Infinity War – Part 2". The Russo brothers and Markus and McFeely joined the project in early 2015. In July 2016, Marvel revealed that the "Part 1" and "Part 2" of the titles would be removed, with the former first part known simply as "Avengers: Infinity War". The former

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame Industrial Light & Magic, Framestore, Method Studios, Weta Digital, DNEG, Cinesite, Digital Domain, Rise, Lola VFX, Perception, Cantina Creative, Capital T, Technicolor VFX, and Territory Studio were the visual effects companies to work on the films. "Avengers: Infinity War" was released on April 27, 2018, and "Avengers: Endgame" is scheduled to be released on April 26, 2019. Since their early films, Marvel Studios had been planting the seeds for an Avengers film that adapted Jim Starlin's 1991 "Infinity Gauntlet" comic arc, by introducing the powerful Infinity Stones as MacGuffins: the Space Stone as the Tesseract in ""; the Mind Stone

neg: Avengers: Infinity War ($95.7 million), and South Korea ($92.8 million). The film is the third highest-grossing film of all time in territories outside the United States and Canada. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 84% approval rating based on 401 reviews, and an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads, ""Avengers: Infinity War" ably juggles a dizzying array of MCU heroes in the fight against their gravest threat yet, and the result is a thrilling, emotionally resonant blockbuster that (mostly) realizes its gargantuan ambitions." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 68 out of

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame in "Infinity War" had the entire script, though some who were in the film more than others had access to additional scenes. Additionally, fake and redacted scenes were used to help protect the secrecy surrounding the film. In June 2013, Robert Downey Jr. signed on to return as Tony Stark / Iron Man for a third Avengers film, and Josh Brolin signed a multi-film deal the following May, to play Thanos. In July 2014, Feige stated that actors from previous MCU films were under contract to return to for a third Avengers film, with Renner stating that September he was

neg: Avengers: Infinity War that time period, surpassing the record of "It". In January 2018, Marvel Comics published a two-issue prequel comic titled "Avengers: Infinity War Prelude", which serves as a bridge between "Captain America: Civil War" and "Avengers: Infinity War". A commercial for "Infinity War" aired during Super Bowl LII. The ad generated the most social media buzz out of all the films advertised during the Super Bowl, according to comScore and United Talent Agency; it was viewed 17.6 million times across YouTube and Facebook. On February 27, 2018, Disney and Marvel announced the Marvel: The Universe Unites charity campaign leading to the

neg: Avengers: Infinity War Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Josh Brolin, and Chris Pratt. In the film, the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy attempt to stop Thanos from amassing the all-powerful Infinity Stones. The film was announced in October 2014 as "Avengers: Infinity War – Part 1". The Russo brothers came on board to direct in April 2015 and by May, Markus and McFeely had signed on to write the script for the film, which drew inspiration from Jim Starlin's 1991 "The Infinity Gauntlet" comic and Jonathan Hickman's 2013 "Infinity" comic. In 2016, Marvel shortened the

neg: Marvel Cinematic Universe because some people will see "Avengers[: Age of Ultron]" who did not see any of the movies in between or even "Avengers 1"." He also found working in television and script doctoring to be "great training ground[s] for dealing with this ... because you're given a bunch of pieces and told to make them fit—even if they don't." For the Russo brothers and writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely working on "Avengers: Infinity War" and Phase Three, they saw "a through line from "Winter Soldier", through "Civil War", right to "Infinity War"", with films like "Doctor Strange" and "Thor: Ragnarok"

neg: Avengers: Infinity War to score both "Infinity War" and "Endgame". Silvestri started to record his score in January 2018, and concluded in late March. Silvestri felt working on the film "was a really different experience than anything I'd done before, especially in regard to the approach and balancing quick shifts in tone". Ludwig Göransson's theme from "Black Panther" is also used in the film. Hollywood Records and Marvel Music released the soundtrack album digitally on April 27, 2018, with a release on physical formats following on May 18. Two versions were released, a regular and deluxe edition, with the deluxe edition featuring some

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame franchises, and it was important for the brothers that both films were tonally different from each other as well, with different storylines and structures. "Infinity War" is set approximately two years after the events of "Civil War", as the Russos always set "everything based on when the last movie came out". In addition to Starlin's "Infinity Gauntlet", Markus and McFeely drew inspiration from Jonathan Hickman's "Infinity" comic (2013). "Infinity War" was crafted like a 1990s heist film, with the brothers looking at many films "that had that heist-style energy to them", as "Infinity War" "has that energy of the bad

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame David Cross was invited to make a cameo appearance as Tobias Fünke in "Infinity War", his character from the sitcom "Arrested Development", which the Russo brothers had previously worked on; this was prevented by a scheduling conflict, but Fünke still appears in the film as a specimen in the Collector's collection, played by an uncredited extra. Avengers co-creator Stan Lee makes cameo appearances in both films. Starlin indicated he was interested in making a cameo appearance in the films. Principal photography for "Avengers: Infinity War" began on January 23, 2017, at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia, under the

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame which were released between "Infinity War" and "Endgame". Other characters, such as Hawkeye and Ant-Man, were excluded in "Infinity War" for "a very specific story choice". Joe Russo said "we have a really interesting story cooked up for both of those characters, and part of that story required that they be under house arrest [in "Infinity War"]." The Russos also revealed that, despite not appearing in "Infinity War", the events of the film killed Betty Ross and Sif, previously portrayed in the MCU by Liv Tyler and Jaimie Alexander, respectively. In January 2016, the Russos stated that they were "breaking

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame inside Loki's Scepter in "Marvel's The Avengers"; the Reality Stone as the Aether in ""; the Power Stone within the Orb in "Guardians of the Galaxy"; and the Time Stone within the Eye of Agamotto in "Doctor Strange". Additionally, the Infinity Gauntlet, a glove designed to house the stones, was introduced in "Thor". A different Infinity Gauntlet is briefly seen in "", in the possession of the villain Thanos, who covets the stones in the comics. The first gauntlet was subsequently revealed to be a fake in "". Many fans expected Thanos to be the antagonist of the second "Avengers"

neg: Avengers: Infinity War to be released on April 26, 2019, with the Russos returning to direct, and Markus and McFeely once again writing the screenplay. Avengers: Infinity War Avengers: Infinity War is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2012's "The Avengers" and 2015's "", and the nineteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and features an ensemble cast including Robert Downey

neg: Avengers: Infinity War Avengers: Infinity War Avengers: Infinity War is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2012's "The Avengers" and 2015's "", and the nineteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and features an ensemble cast including Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame signed on to reprise the role of Clint Barton. After the announcement of "Infinity War" and its sequel, many established MCU actors were confirmed to be joining Downey and Brolin, including previous members of the Avengers Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner / Hulk, Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America, Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow, Don Cheadle as James "Rhodey" Rhodes / War Machine, Paul Bettany as Vision, Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch, and Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson / Falcon. "Infinity War" also sees the Avengers unite with

neg: Avengers: Infinity War Infinity Gauntlet hidden on the game map and become Thanos with added abilities. The Russo brothers were fans of "Fortnite" and approached Donald Mustard, the worldwide creative director of Epic Games, about the potential for a crossover between the properties. On November 20, 2018, Little, Brown and Company published "Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War: Thanos – Titan Consumed", written by Barry Lyga. Despite not existing within Marvel Studios' MCU canon, the novel explores the origins of Thanos before the events of the film. Lyga noted he spoke with Marvel Studios to get an "outline of who Thanos is and what he

neg: Avengers: Infinity War stating, ""Infinity War" is a brashly entertaining jamboree, structured to show off each hero or heroine and give them just enough to do, and to update their mythologies without making it all feel like homework." "Rolling Stone"s Peter Travers said the film is "too much of a good thing" and wrote, "The Russo brothers have clearly never learned the concept that less is more. They've used the premise of an Avengers reunion to put on a fireworks explosion of action and laughs that won't quit." Richard Roeper of the "Chicago Sun-Times" called it Marvel's "biggest and most ambitious movie yet",

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame films filming back-to-back. In January 2015, Whedon stated that it was "very doubtful" that he would be involved with the two "Infinity War" films. By April, Anthony and Joe Russo had reached a deal to direct both parts of "Avengers: Infinity War", after directing "" and "". Whedon cited the series' increasing scale as to why he chose not to return, explaining, "Every movie I have ever made has been an ensemble piece of increasingly enormous proportions... That many balls in the air, it's only going to get bigger with "Infinity War". I'm not going to be able to give

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame particular would be "a very important" link to the "Avengers" sequels in Phase Three of the MCU, as was "Thor: Ragnarok". In July 2014, Feige stated that there were "some notions" to where Marvel would want to take a third Avengers film and that the studio was aiming for three years between "Avengers: Age of Ultron" in 2015 and a sequel. In October 2014, Marvel announced a two-part sequel to "Age of Ultron", titled "Avengers: Infinity War". "Part 1" was scheduled to be released on May 4, 2018, and "Part 2" was scheduled for May 3, 2019, with the two

neg: Avengers: Infinity War as Happy Hogan, while co-director Joe Russo had a cameo appearance as a paparazzi photographer, but this scene did not make the theatrical cut of the film. In October 2014, Marvel announced a two-part sequel to "" (2015), titled "Avengers: Infinity War". "Part 1" was scheduled to be released on May 4, 2018, with "Part 2" scheduled for May 3, 2019. In April 2015, Marvel announced that Anthony and Joe Russo would direct both parts of "Avengers: Infinity War", with back-to-back filming expected to begin in 2016. The next month, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely had signed on to write

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame as it was "such a behemoth of a project". "Infinity War" was shot mostly with a single-camera setup, opposed to the three camera setup used by the Russos on the "Captain America" films they directed. The Russos went with this approach to make "Infinity War" "look bigger" over "the vérité look" the "Captain America" films had with three cameras. Joe Russo stated in July 2017 that there were a couple of unfinished scenes for "Infinity War" that would be shot "in the next few months". The first trailer for the film revealed the inclusion of the alien species Outriders, from

neg: Jim Starlin a revival of the "Silver Surfer" series. As had become his Marvel norm, he introduced his creation Thanos into the story arc, which led to "The Infinity Gauntlet" miniseries and its crossover storyline. Here, Starlin brought back Adam Warlock, whom he had killed years earlier in his concluding Warlock story in "The Avengers Annual" #7 and "Marvel Two-in-One Annual" #2 in 1977. "The Infinity Gauntlet" proved successful and was followed by the sequel miniseries "The Infinity War" and "Infinity Crusade". For DC he created "Hardcore Station" in 1998. In 2003, Starlin wrote and drew the Marvel Comics miniseries "". The

neg: Avengers: Infinity War James Shaw as Corvus Glaive. The foursome provided voices and motion-capture performances on set for their characters. As Coon was pregnant during filming, she mainly did facial capture for Proxima Midnight with some motion-capture, with stuntwoman Monique Ganderton standing-in and providing the rest on set. Ebony Maw's look was inspired by the Marvel Comics character Mephisto, who appeared in the "Infinity Gauntlet" storyline. Ross Marquand portrays Johann Schmidt / Red Skull, the "Stonekeeper" and former Nazi commander of Hydra during World War II. Marquand replaces Hugo Weaving, who had expressed reluctance to reprise the character from "" (2011). Avengers co-creator

neg: The Infinity Gauntlet IGN released an unranked list of the all-time best comic book events in 2011, "The Infinity Gauntlet" was included and was noted for being "a template on which all future cosmic events were based". Its lasting appeal is often attributed to Pérez’s artwork and Starlin's unusual treatment of classic heroes. Since Thanos made a cameo appearance in the 2012 film "The Avengers", there has been renewed interest in "The Infinity Gauntlet" which was further heightened in October 2014 when the title of the third and fourth "Avengers" films were revealed to be "Infinity War - Part I" and "Infinity War

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame began the film after Thanos had already acquired the Power Stone, but this was rejected because "it felt like he had too many Infinity Stones to start". Going with the draft used in the final film, the plot had been "simplified, made more linear, and allowed more of the character moments come through" as the start of filming approached, giving the Russos "a very tight script" to work with. Unlike "Infinity War", "Avengers: Endgame" features mainly an original story that does not draw inspiration from any existing comics. Joe Russo explained, "I think we're in pretty fresh territory with "Avengers

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame the storyline "Infinity". In early March, Disney moved the release of "Infinity War" in the United States to April 27, 2018, to have it release the same weekend as some of its international markets. While "Infinity War" features one post-credits scene, as with previous MCU films, the Russos considered not including one. Anthony noted that part of the reason for considering this "was because we knew the ending was a complicated ending, a difficult ending, and we wanted that ending to be very definitive. We didn't want to complicate it with other ideas." He felt the tag used, which shows

neg: Brandon T. Snider Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War: The Cosmic Quest Volumes 1 & 2, companion novels featuring original tales from the Marvel Cinematic Universe that tie into the events depicted in the popular mega-franchise film. Volume One: Beginning, a prequel, found The Collector and his brother, Grandmaster, teaming up to search for an Infinity Stone. Volume Two: Aftermath focuses on the return of Dr. Erik Selvig as he and his team deal with the fallout of Infinity War. In addition to appearing on the This Week in Marvel podcast, Snider joined Marvel’s Agent M, Ryan Penagos, to unveil an Avengers: Infinity War-themed library

neg: Avengers: Age of Ultron translations, which were said to be too literal, were thought "to have been done by Google Translate." In December 2015, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences placed "Avengers: Age of Ultron" on their shortlist of potential nominees for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 88th Academy Awards, but ultimately did not nominate it for the award. "Avengers: Infinity War" and "Avengers: Endgame" were directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, from a script by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. "Infinity War" was released on April 27, 2018, with the sequel scheduled for April 26, 2019. Much

neg: Avengers: Infinity War title to "Avengers: Infinity War". Filming began in January 2017 at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia, with a large cast consisting mostly of actors reprising their roles from previous MCU films, including Brolin as Thanos. The production lasted until July 2017, shooting back-to-back with a direct sequel, "". Additional filming took place in Scotland, England, the Downtown Atlanta area, and New York City. With an estimated budget in the range of $316–400 million, it is one of the most expensive films ever made. "Avengers: Infinity War" held its world premiere on April 23, 2018 in Los Angeles and

neg: Avengers: Endgame as "Avengers: Infinity War – Part 2". The Russo brothers came on board to direct in April 2015, and by May, Markus and McFeely signed on to script the film. In July 2016, Marvel removed the title, referring to it simply as "Untitled Avengers film". Filming began in August 2017 at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia, shooting back-to-back with "Avengers: Infinity War", and ended in January 2018. Additional filming took place in the Downtown and Metro Atlanta areas and New York. The title was revealed in December 2018. The film is scheduled for release in the United States

neg: Avengers: Infinity War record set by "Black Panther". Atom Tickets reported that "Infinity War" sold more tickets in its first pre-sales day than "Black Panther" sold in its first month. Within 72 hours, the film generated the largest pre-sales for any superhero film at AMC Theatres, with its advance ticket sales being 257.6% ahead of "Black Panther"s, 751.5% ahead of "Captain America: Civil War", and 1,106.5% ahead of "Avengers: Age of Ultron" during the same time frame. Two weeks before its release, Fandango revealed that advance ticket sales for "Infinity War" were outpacing the last seven MCU films combined in the same timeframe,

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame the additional photography would be used to finish the film, since it had not been fully completed earlier in the year. The additional photography was completed on October 12, 2018. In early November 2018, the Russos were "about halfway through" editing the film while also beginning to receive completed visual effects shots and starting to work with Silvestri on the score. On December 7, 2018, with the release of its first trailer, the title of the sequel was revealed to be "Avengers: Endgame". Additionally, its release date was changed to April 26, 2019. Joe Russo indicated that they hoped to

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame integral due to their connection to Thanos. The Russos wanted "a strong through line" from "The Winter Soldier" to "Civil War" and into the two films, saying, "We look at ["Civil War"] as setting the stage for "Infinity War", how it starts and what condition everybody's in." He described the concept of the films as "the Marvel universe [uniting] to battle the greatest threat to the world and universe that you've ever seen", with the brothers wanting to approach the cosmic elements of "Infinity War" with the same "fervor" that they gave to the more grounded films "Winter Soldier" and

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame "" and "" are American superhero films based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. They are the sequels to "Marvel's The Avengers" (2012) and "" (2015), and serve as the nineteenth and twenty-second films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), respectively. Both films are directed by Anthony and Joe Russo from screenplays by the writing team of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and feature an ensemble cast composed of many previous MCU actors. Development of the films began

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame 3,000 visual effects shots. Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame "" and "" are American superhero films based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. They are the sequels to "Marvel's The Avengers" (2012) and "" (2015), and serve as the nineteenth and twenty-second films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), respectively. Both films are directed by Anthony and Joe Russo from screenplays by the writing team of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and feature an ensemble cast composed of many previous MCU actors. Development

neg: Avengers Infinity Avengers Infinity Avengers: Infinity is a four-issue American comic book limited series published from September to December 2000 by Marvel Comics. The series was written by Roger Stern and drawn by Sean Chen, Scott Hanna, Steve Oliff and Troy Peteri. Writer Roger Stern has explained a number of the decisions that went into the planning of the series. On the diverse team line-up he said "I just put together a list of Avengers who would be at loose ends, and who would be good choices for a big, cosmic adventure ... with a welcome bit of kibitzing from Kurt Busiek

neg: Avengers: Infinity War October 16, "Infinity War" had generated over 679,000 total social media conversations. To promote the release of the film's first trailer, Marvel released "a retrospective video looking back at some of its best trailers" since "Iron Man" (2008), "paired with fan reaction videos to those trailers". The first trailer for "Avengers: Infinity War" debuted on "Good Morning America" on November 29, 2017. Josh Spiegel of "The Hollywood Reporter" said, "The trailer promises, in many ways, exactly what anyone with a passing familiarity with superhero movies would expect..." but "the most important part of the trailer is how it carefully, deliberately

neg: Avengers: Infinity War ran promotions in smaller markets. Coca-Cola, Ziploc, Go-Gurt, and Yoplait created special packaging in support of the film, with Synchrony implementing a "Save Like a Hero" campaign, and Stand Up to Cancer and American Airlines launching a national campaign with a PSA starring Johansson and Hemsworth. In the United Kingdom, OnePlus released an "Infinity War" edition for one of their smartphones. "Deadline Hollywood" estimated the media value was $150 million, the largest for any Marvel film, with Coca-Cola contributing an estimated $40 million. "Avengers: Infinity War" held its world premiere at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on April 23,

neg: Avengers: Infinity War "" (2015) record of 12 days. Also in its second weekend, "Infinity War" passed $13.5 million from 4DX screens, which was the all-time record for the format. On June 12, 2018, "Avengers: Infinity War" passed the $2 billion mark at the worldwide box office, becoming the fourth film to cross that milestone after "Avatar" (2009), "Titanic" (1997), and "The Force Awakens". Crossing the mark in 48 days was the second fastest to that point, after "Avatar"s 47-day record. With $140 million worldwide from IMAX, the film is the third-largest worldwide in the format, behind "Avatar" and "The Force Awakens", and

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame enjoyed the approach the writers and Russos took in "Infinity War", giving Thanos "an actual perspective and [making] him feel righteous to himself", since the Death storyline was "not a concept that will necessarily translate". Beyond the script used in the final film, two different drafts of "Infinity War" were also created. One of these drafts featured Thanos as the film's narrator, utilized a non-linear structure, and also had backstories for the Black Order members. Though this draft was not used, writing out Thanos' narration helped give Markus, McFeely, and the Russos more insight into the character. The other draft

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame filming also occurred at St Giles' Cathedral and Inverness Castle. In late June 2017, filming occurred in Downtown Atlanta, as well as Atlanta's Central Park in early July, before moving to Queens, New York in the middle of the month. For "Infinity War"s final scene, the filmmakers partnered with Indochina Productions, a studio based in Thailand, to acquire footage of the Banaue Rice Terraces at Ifugao, Philippines. Since "Infinity War" and "Black Panther" were filming simultaneously in Atlanta, both production teams worked together closely to ensure a unified presentation of Black Panther's home nation of Wakanda in both films. In

neg: Spider-Man: Far From Home in early October, before officially wrapping on October 16, 2018. At Sony's CCXP Brazil panel in December 2018, it was revealed that Hydro-Man and the Elementals would appear in the film. "Spider-Man: Homecoming" composer Michael Giacchino was confirmed to return to score "Far From Home" in October 2018. Due to the events of "Avengers: Infinity War" and "Avengers: Endgame", Germain Lussier of io9 noted that Sony would either have to begin marketing this film only two months before its release or spoil the fact that Parker is resurrected for general audiences that may not realize that this would happen in

neg: Avengers: Infinity War were doubling daily the week of its release, the fastest rate of increase the service has seen for any MCU title. "Avengers: Infinity War" earned $106.7 million on its opening day in the United States and Canada (including $39 million from Thursday night previews), for an opening weekend total of $258.2 million. The Thursday night preview earning was the best for an MCU film (beating "Avengers: Age of Ultron"s $27.6 million) and the fourth-best of all time, behind "The Force Awakens" ($57 million), "The Last Jedi" ($45 million) and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2" (2011) ($43.5

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame Strange through his close relationships with Feige and Joe Russo. Derrickson discussed the plot of both "Avengers" films with Joe, and gave notes on them, saying, "this is why this is great, this is so the way to do this... [and] no, this is why that'll never work..." James Gunn, director and writer of the "Guardians" films and executive producer on these "Avengers" films, stated that he worked with the Russos, Marvel and Feige "to make sure that any of the characters I'm involved with that are in ["Infinity War"] are well taken care of and are as funny as

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame second part's title was revealed as "Avengers: Endgame" in December 2018. Both films were shot back-to-back at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia. Production of "Infinity War" began on January 23, and concluded on July 14, 2017, with additional filming in Scotland, England, the Downtown Atlanta area, and New York City. Filming of "Avengers: Endgame" began on August 10, 2017 and concluded on January 11, 2018, with additional filming in the Downtown and Metro Atlanta areas and New York. They are the first Hollywood films to be shot entirely in digital IMAX, using a new camera developed alongside Arri.

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame have the film completed by March 2019. Joe Russo felt that "Endgame" was his and his brother's "best work for Marvel", noting, "I think we’ve grown with every movie that we’ve made there. We’ve grown with the characters. We’ve grown with the cast. As filmmakers we’re very happy and very excited with the movie." He also added that because the majority of the film was made before "Infinity War" released and the audience was able to respond to it, the fourth "Avengers" film was "really pure... without any sort of external noise creeping in [to the story] at all." Visual

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame largest film production ever with a [combined] $1 billion budget", which Feige later stated was false; the film had an estimated budget between $316–400 million, still making it one of the most expensive films ever made. Evans and Hemsworth both earned $15 million for both films. In June 2017, Johansson commented on the amount of characters featured in the films, and felt the films would feature over 60, with at least 30 appearing together in one scene. Filming of "Infinity War" concluded on July 14, 2017. Filming on "Avengers: Endgame" began on August 10, 2017, also at Pinewood Atlanta Studios,

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame guy being one step ahead of the heroes", with Thanos "on a smash-and-grab" to acquire all of the Infinity Stones. The films "2 Days in the Valley" and "Out of Sight" served as inspiration for the brothers. To handle the number of characters in the films, many are split into various smaller groups early on in "Infinity War", which Anthony compared to ""Nashville" for super heroes. It's storytelling that is vignetted storytelling. It's to composite all of them under one story—everybody." The grouping included: Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Star-Lord, Spider-Man, and initially Bruce Banner and Wong; Thor and the Guardians

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame "Civil War". Though they were unable to depict the films with naturalism given their science fiction content, they did want their films to have a psychological realism. Anthony added that "Infinity War" would deal with the "themes of fate and destiny and the essence of what it means to be a hero". Feige said the films would explore whether the visions the Avengers had in "Age of Ultron" were predictions of the future or just projections of their fears. Anthony described the tone of the films as unique, given how they were melding the tones of all the individual MCU

neg: Ant-Man and the Wasp with Reed in order to ensure story elements would line up between the films. Joe Russo added that "Ant-Man and the Wasp" would have "some [plot] elements that stitch in" closely with "Avengers: Infinity War", more so than some of the other films leading up to the Avengers films. Reed knew "Ant-Man and the Wasp" would be "a fairly stand-alone movie but... could not ignore the events of "Infinity War"", with the biggest connection occurring in the film's mid-credit scene. Since the events of "Ant-Man and the Wasp" occur over 48 hours, the timeline in relation to "Infinity War" was

neg: Avengers: Infinity War had the second-highest opening weekend ever, with $23.2 million. "Avengers: Infinity War" remained number one in its 54 markets in its second weekend. The $4.9 million opening day in Russia was the biggest of all time. "Infinity War" was also the first film in Russia to sell more than 1 million tickets in a single day, and went on to gross $17.6 million in the market, a new opening weekend record. IMAX contributed $2.2 million in the market, which was also an opening weekend record. In its third weekend, the film remained number one in a majority of its markets.

neg: Avengers: Infinity War to a screening of "Infinity War". The El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles also had a similar marathon ahead of the film's release. "Avengers: Infinity War" was released on digital download by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on July 31, 2018, and on Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD on August 14. The digital and Blu-ray releases include behind-the-scenes featurettes, audio commentary, deleted scenes, and a blooper reel. The digital release also features a roundtable discussion between MCU directors the Russos, Jon Favreau, Joss Whedon, James Gunn, Ryan Coogler, Peyton Reed, and Taika Waititi. In terms of home media sales,

neg: Avengers: Infinity War and world-building. While it's impossible to tell from two minutes work of footage, it certainly looks like that gamble paid off." The D23 footage was also shown at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con International. Due to the two convention presentations, "Avengers: Infinity War" generated over 90,000 new conversations on social media from July 17 to 23, the third-most during that time period behind "Thor: Ragnarok" and "Justice League" (2017), according to comScore and its PreAct service. "Infinity War" stayed in third the following week, with over 41,000 new social media conversations, behind "Ragnarok" and "It" (2017). By the week of

neg: Avengers: Infinity War movies." In May 2016, the Russos revealed that they would retitle the two films, to further remove the misconception that they were one large film split in two, with Joe stating, "The intention is we will change [the titles], we just haven't come up with [them] yet." That July, Marvel revealed "Part 1"s title would be shortened to simply "Avengers: Infinity War". Principal photography began on January 23, 2017, under the working title "Mary Lou", at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia, with Trent Opaloch as director of photography. "Infinity War", along with "", were shot using IMAX/Arri 2D

neg: Avengers: Infinity War (soundtrack) everyone was pretty much in agreement that it would be more of a distraction to even attempt it." Silvestri started to record his score in January 2018 and concluded in late March. Silvestri felt working on the film "was a really different experience than anything I'd done before, especially in regard to the approach and balancing quick shifts in tone." He noted that "Thanos didn't just get his own musical theme; he got his own sensibility", while the Children of Thanos were linked musically to Thanos. Silvestri avoided giving each of the Infinity Stones a theme, as he had done

neg: Thor: Ragnarok and then not funny at all [or] it was funny in the wrong places and in the end, we had to just keep testing jokes and testing parts of the film". "Ragnarok" also clarifies that an Infinity Gauntlet seen in "Thor" was a fake. Feige expanded, saying that it had been included in "Thor" as an easter egg, since Marvel Studios was "working on "The Avengers" and trying to [put] that all together for the conclusion of Phase One." However, shortly after "The Avengers" released and the studio began to solidify plans for "Avengers: Infinity War", they realized that the

neg: Avengers Infinity are transported back to the now recreated Rigellian colony, which is a paradise as animal life has yet to appear. Avengers Infinity Avengers: Infinity is a four-issue American comic book limited series published from September to December 2000 by Marvel Comics. The series was written by Roger Stern and drawn by Sean Chen, Scott Hanna, Steve Oliff and Troy Peteri. Writer Roger Stern has explained a number of the decisions that went into the planning of the series. On the diverse team line-up he said "I just put together a list of Avengers who would be at loose ends, and

neg: Avengers: Infinity War and the second-best Monday gross for an MCU film, after "Black Panther" ($40.1 million). The next day, it earned $23.5 million, which was the highest grossing Tuesday for an MCU film, beating "Black Panther" ($20.8 million), and the highest grossing Tuesday in May, beating "The Avengers" ($17.6 million). It also tied "The Force Awakens" for the fastest to reach $300 million at five days. The film remained number one in its second weekend, earning $115.5 million, which was the second-best second weekend ever after "The Force Awakens" ($149.2 million). "Infinity War" also surpassed $400 million in the weekend, doing so

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame effects for "Infinity War" were created by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Framestore, Method Studios, Weta Digital, DNEG, Cinesite, Digital Domain, Rise, Lola VFX, and Perception. Digital Domain worked on creating Thanos for the film, producing over 400 visual effects shots. The company created a new facial capture application called Masquerade, based on the concept of machine learning through computer algorithms, specifically for the film, beginning work on the system 3–4 months before filming began to develop and test it. They presented their results to Brolin, the Russos, and executives from Marvel ahead of filming to demonstrate the subtleties Brolin

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame Nick Fury signaling for Captain Marvel before fading away, put "a small button [on the ending] but that's it". Post-production for the second film began in earnest after the release of "Infinity War", with Feige noting that the film would have a slightly longer time in post-production than some of their other films. Additional filming took place in Dutchess and Ulster counties in New York in June 2018. Editing began a few weeks before the release of "Ant-Man and the Wasp" in July 2018. Reshoots for the second film began by September 7, 2018. Ruffalo indicated that beyond reshooting material,

neg: Lego Marvel's Avengers body and releases small fireworks. Later, with the Avengers having established a new base run by Fury, Hill, Cho, and Selvig, Thor returns to Asgard to learn more about the forces he suspects have manipulated recent events. As Iron Man leaves, and Hawkeye retires off-screen, Captain America and Black Widow prepare to train new Avengers: War Machine, Falcon, the Vision, and Scarlet Witch. In a post-credits scene, Thanos, displeased with the failure of his pawns, dons the Infinity Gauntlet and intends to collect the Infinity Stones for himself. Unlike "Lego Marvel Super Heroes", which used original voice acting, "Lego Marvel's

neg: Avengers: Infinity War seems, will keep this assembly line from chugging ahead with its signature polished, mechanized efficiency." Scott also criticized the action sequences, calling them "tedious and predictable" and writing, "The noisy, bloated spectacles of combat were surely the most expensive parts of the movie, but the money seems less like an imaginative tool than a substitute for genuine imagination." Likewise, Zacharek said, "There's no pacing in "Avengers: Infinity War". It's all sensation and no pulse. Everything is big, all of the time." American YouTube personality Tony "Nem" Mitchell watched the film 103 times in theaters, a world record. When Mitchell's streak

neg: Avengers: Infinity War having showtimes at either 2 am or 3 am to accommodate demand. In India, the film had the biggest release ever for a Hollywood film, opening on nearly 2,000 screens in four languages. The film also screened in 515 4DX theaters in 59 countries. "Avengers: Infinity War" was originally scheduled to be released on May 4, 2018 in the United States. The Chinese release of the film, which opened on May 11, 2018, was originally scheduled to end on June 10, 2018, but was granted a "rare" extension of 30 days, to end on July 9, 2018. Select footage from

neg: Avengers: Infinity War and the third-biggest opening, behind "The Force Awakens" ($30 million) and "The Last Jedi" ($24.7 million). AMC reported that the film had the highest Friday and Saturday box office gross for a single title in the company's history, while Fandango reported that approximately $84 million worth of tickets were sold through the service, approximately 30%, which was the largest share of the weekend box office for any film in the company's history. "Avengers: Infinity War" earned an additional $25 million the Monday after its opening weekend, which was the highest grossing Monday in April, beating "Furious 7" (2015) ($14 million),

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame circle this, 'This is cool, this is insane, this is cool, we're not allowed to do that,' and from there [we] pieced it together very slowly." In January 2016, the duo had begun work on the screenplay for the first film, and by July, they were working on the third draft of "Infinity War" and the second for its sequel, with Markus stating, much like how they were planned to be filmed, "On any given day, you're only working on one but that doesn't mean that next week, you aren't working on the other one." By October, "" screenwriter Eric

neg: Jonathan Hickman Jonathan Hickman Jonathan Hickman (born September 3, 1972) is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for creating the Image Comics series "The Nightly News, The Manhattan Projects "and "East of West", as well as working on Marvel Comics' "Fantastic Four", "FF", and "S.H.I.E.L.D." titles. In 2012, Hickman ended his run on the Fantastic Four titles to write "The Avengers" and "The New Avengers", as part the "Marvel NOW!" relaunch. In 2013, Hickman wrote a six-part miniseries, "Infinity", plus "Avengers" tie-ins for Marvel Comics. In 2015, he wrote the crossover event "Secret Wars". He is the creator

neg: Avengers: Endgame group of heroes face an enemy they don't think they can defeat." As such, the "Endgame" trailer "mirrors this perfectly" and "shows us that the Avengers' two most prominent characters are who they've always been: Iron Man, a pessimist who keeps fighting no matter how hopeless things look, and Captain America, an optimist who believes that nothing is hopeless when the world's heroes fight together". The trailer was viewed 289 million times in its first 24 hours, becoming the most viewed trailer in that time period, surpassing the record of "Avengers: Infinity War" (230 million views). The trailer also set

neg: Avengers/Ultraforce other Gems to reform Nemesis, and battles superhero teams the "Avengers" and "Ultraforce", before being dissipated once again. Avengers/Ultraforce The Avengers/Ultraforce event was a two-part intercompany crossover between Malibu Comics and Marvel Comics. The first issue, "Avengers/Ultraforce", was written by Glenn Herdling with art by Angel Medina and M. C. Wyman. The sequel, "Ultraforce/Avengers", was written by Warren Ellis with art by George Pérez, who also illustrated wraparound covers on both issues. The Asgardian god Loki enters the Ultraverse and collects the Infinity Gems, also discovering the existence of a seventh Gem: Ego. Loki learns the Infinity Gems were originally

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame place out on a board for consideration. Characters were ultimately chosen based on the personal preferences of the creative team, as long as the "choices feel organic to the storytelling, and really, you have to sort of structure them in the way that they need to be there", and included some characters Joe considered to be unexpected choices such as some who made smaller appearances previously in the MCU and "are really getting fleshed out" now. Because of the number of characters, McFeely called writing "Civil War" "a walk in the park". He noted that characters who had not yet

neg: Avengers: Infinity War be available at a later point. "Avengers: Infinity War" grossed $678.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $1.369 billion in other territories, for a worldwide total of $2.048 billion. It became the fourth highest-grossing film of all time, as well as the highest-grossing film of 2018, the highest-grossing MCU film, and the highest-grossing superhero film. Its worldwide opening weekend of $640.5 million is the biggest of all time, beating "The Fate of the Furious" (2017) $541.9 million. It was the fastest film to make $1 billion at the worldwide box office, doing so in 11 days to eclipse

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame the Guardians of the Galaxy, including Chris Pratt as Peter Quill / Star-Lord, Pom Klementieff as Mantis, Karen Gillan as Nebula, Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer, Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Vin Diesel as the voice of Groot, and Bradley Cooper as the voice of Rocket. Sean Gunn served as the on-set stand-in actor for Rocket on both films. Additional actors reprising their roles in "Infinity War" from the various MCU franchises include Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange from "Doctor Strange", with Benedict Wong as Wong; Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man from "Spider-Man: Homecoming", with Jacob Batalon as

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Marvel Select of each character. In 2004, She-Hulk was chosen in a fan poll run by "ToyFare" magazine, allowing respondents to pick which of five characters (also including Sandman, Thanos, "Days of Future Past" Wolverine and "New X-Men" Beast) would be produced as an exclusive for the 2005 summer conventions. Since then, two of the other candidates (Thanos and Wolverine) have been released. Avengers: Infinity War: Thor
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neg: Avengers: Infinity War the screenplays for both parts of the film, which draws inspiration from Jim Starlin's 1991 "The Infinity Gauntlet" comic and Jonathan Hickman's 2013 "Infinity" comic. Anthony Russo added the film was inspired by 1990s heist films, with Thanos "on a smash-and-grab [to acquire the Infinity Stones<nowiki>]</nowiki>, and everybody's trying to catch up the whole movie". Producer Kevin Feige said that the "Infinity War" films were subtitled "Part 1" and "Part 2" "because they [have] such shared elements, it felt appropriate... But I wouldn't call it one story that's cut in half. I would say it's going to be two distinct

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame been cast were also in the scripts. Joe Russo explained that they intended to focus on a "handful" of characters and build the story around their emotional arcs, with many of the other characters having ancillary roles. He also said that the number of characters in "Civil War" prepared the brothers to "deal with probably triple the amount of characters in "Infinity War"", and that that the characters given main focus would shift between the two films. Gunn said the Guardians of the Galaxy's roles in the films would not be the biggest part of the film, but would be

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame who wants ultimate power just to take over the world and sit on a throne". Avoiding the Death storyline moved away from the tease Whedon used in "The Avengers" with the character, where Thanos felt that by challenging the Avengers, he was courting death. Though the tease was purposely ambiguous, Whedon felt when he featured Thanos he did not know what to do with him and "kind of hung [Thanos] out to dry". Whedon added that "I love Thanos. I love his apocalyptic vision, his love affair with death. I love his power. But, I don’t really understand it." Whedon

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame April 2017, Feige stated that the films would not be filmed simultaneously as originally planned but rather back-to-back, and indicated that filming for the "Infinity War" sequel would commence in August 2017. He explained, "We're doing them one right after another. It became too complicated to cross-board them like that, and we found ourselves—again, something would always pay the price. We wanted to be able to focus and shoot one movie and then focus and shoot another movie." As this decision was made a few months before the start of filming, some of the pre-production work was negatively affected. The

neg: Avengers/Ultraforce Avengers/Ultraforce The Avengers/Ultraforce event was a two-part intercompany crossover between Malibu Comics and Marvel Comics. The first issue, "Avengers/Ultraforce", was written by Glenn Herdling with art by Angel Medina and M. C. Wyman. The sequel, "Ultraforce/Avengers", was written by Warren Ellis with art by George Pérez, who also illustrated wraparound covers on both issues. The Asgardian god Loki enters the Ultraverse and collects the Infinity Gems, also discovering the existence of a seventh Gem: Ego. Loki learns the Infinity Gems were originally part of a gestalt entity known as "Nemesis". The Ego Gem, possessing the Avenger Sersi, merges with the

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame it what I would need to." At the end of the month, Chris Evans, who portrays Captain America in the MCU, revealed that filming was now scheduled to begin in late 2016 over nine months, lasting until August or September 2017, after previously being scheduled to begin in late 2015. By May 2015, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely had signed on to also return from the "Captain America" films, writing the screenplays for both parts of the film. Anthony Russo described the two "Avengers" sequels as "the culmination of everything that has happened in the MCU" since "Iron Man" was

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame Pearson was flown from "Ragnarok"s set in Australia to Atlanta to assist Markus and McFeely, who were "just so crammed for time". Pearson felt the pair were comfortable allowing him to work on one film while they focused on the other given his previous Marvel work, including alongside them on the television series "Agent Carter". The Russos and Markus and McFeely worked with all of the directors and writers of the other Phase Three films to keep continuity, talking "on an almost weekly basis". "Doctor Strange" director Scott Derrickson was "kept in the loop" on how the "Avengers" films use

neg: The Infinity War Super Heroes In War of the Gems", was released in 1996 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. In October 2014, Marvel announced a two-part film titled "" written by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely and directed by the Russo brothers. On August 1, 2016, Marvel made an interim announcement that "Infinity War" might be one film, which it later dropped in preference to its original two-part film plans. The Russos added that the movie will not be a literal adaptation of the story, but will borrow elements. The first part, "Avengers: Infinity War", was released on April 27, 2018. The

neg: Quasar (Wendell Vaughn) The Avengers. In 2012, Quasar was ranked 36th in IGN's list of "The Top 50 Avengers". The character first appeared as Marvel Boy in "Captain America" #217 (January, 1978). He continued to make guest appearances in "Captain America", "The Incredible Hulk", "Marvel Two-in-One", and "Avengers". He was revamped as Quasar by Mark Gruenwald, and first appeared under this new name in "The Incredible Hulk" #234 (April 1979). Quasar received an eponymous series in October 1989, written by Mark Gruenwald and illustrated by Paul Ryan and Danny Bulanadi. The title crossed over with "Infinity Gauntlet", "", and "The Infinity War". Later,

neg: Living Lightning Coast in "Avengers West Coast" #71–73 then became a member of the team and has made nineteen other appearances in this series with #74–80, #82, #84–90, #92, #96, #100, #102 and two in "Avengers West Coast Annual" #7–8. In 1992, as an Avenger, he appeared in other titles of the crossover with "The Avengers" #345, #347, "Captain America" #401, "Quasar" #33, "Thor" #445–446 and "Wonder Man" vol.2 #8–9. During the same year, Miguel Santos played a role in the comic book limited series "Infinity War" with #1–3, 6 and several tie-ins. In 1993, he appeared in the sequel, "Infinity Crusade"

neg: Avengers: Infinity War "Infinity War" opened in China to $200 million (RMB 1.266 billion), which was the second highest opening weekend in local currency behind "The Fate of the Furious" ($184 million and RMB 1.352 million). IMAX contributed $20.5 million, which was the third-largest opening in China. "Infinity War" also broke China's pre-sale record of 400 million yuan ($63 million). In India, "Infinity War" became the first Hollywood film to earn over ₹2 billion net ($29.7 million), and also became the highest grossing MCU film in the United Kingdom. In its sixth weekend, the film became the highest grossing MCU film in Japan

neg: Avengers: Infinity War 100, based on 53 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported filmgoers gave it an 87% overall positive score and a 68% "definite recommend". Todd McCarthy of "The Hollywood Reporter" praised the writers' and directors' ability to balance the large cast of characters, saying, "...writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and directors Anthony and Joe Russo, under the supervision of Marvel Films maestro Kevin Feige, acknowledge the traffic jam of egos and play it for laughs". Owen Gleiberman of "Variety" concurred,

neg: Avengers: Infinity War and had become the company's top April release. It was also on pace to become the top superhero film. A week before the film released, "The Wall Street Journal" said the film had sold more than $50 million worth of advance tickets, behind only "The Force Awakens" and "" (2017), with Fandango reporting that more than 2,500 showtimes had sold out. On Atom Tickets, "Infinity War" had the most pre-sale volume, selling 7% higher than "The Last Jedi" and 250% higher than "Black Panther" at the same point in their sales. Atom also reported that ticket sales for "Infinity War"

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame Skarsgård, who portrays Erik Selvig in the MCU, said he believed he would appear in one of the films as he had one more film left on his contract, and would not be appearing in "Thor: Ragnarok". By October 2017, Hiroyuki Sanada had been cast in an undisclosed role for the sequel, and a year later, Katherine Langford was revealed to have been cast, also in an undisclosed role. The Russos hoped to have another actor from their TV series "Community" make a cameo appearance, after Danny Pudi and Jim Rash appeared in "The Winter Soldier" and "Civil War", respectively.

neg: Marvel Cinematic Universe tie-in comics hero for almost a decade before his film introduction in "Captain America: Civil War". The first comic tells the present whereabouts of all the Avengers after the events of "". The second comic gives us an overview of the whereabouts of all the Infinity Stones shown in the MCU thus far, leading to "". The first comic, called "The Peacekeepers", follows Nick Fury and Maria Hill between the events of "Age of Ultron" and "Infinity War". This table includes characters who have appeared in multiple MCU tie-in comics, headlining at least one. The following table lists the known sales figures

neg: Avengers: Infinity War the largest for a Marvel film. In May 2018, two weeks after its release, "Deadline Hollywood" deduced the film had already broken even and estimated its net profit would be around $600 million. This value took into account production budgets, P&A, talent participations, and other costs, with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from home media. In December 2017, a survey from Fandango indicated that "Infinity War" was the most anticipated film of 2018. Fandango later reported that "Infinity War" achieved the largest initial 24-hour ticket pre-sales for a superhero film, taking just 6 hours to surpass the previous 24-hour

neg: Avengers: Infinity War the equivalent of Han Solo frozen in the carbonite, on steroids." A. O. Scott of "The New York Times" criticized the film's reliance on other films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, saying, "Considered on its own, as a single, nearly 2-hour-40-minute movie, "Avengers: Infinity War" makes very little sense", but conceded that it "was never meant to be viewed or judged in isolation". Richard Brody of "The New Yorker" agreed, stating, "The insubstantiality of the film isn't due to the infinite yet flimsy malleability of C.G.I. gimmickry but, instead, to the dispersion of its drama throughout the many cinematic installations

neg: Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame it's going to be two distinct movies." Anthony Russo reiterated that the two "Infinity War" films were "very very different from one another. It's not a part one and part two scenario, necessarily. They're just two different expressions. I think it creates a misconception that we're shooting them at the same time." As such, in early May 2016, the Russos revealed that they would retitle the two films, to further remove the misconception that the films were one large film split in two, with Joe stating, "The intention is we will change [the titles], we just haven't come up with