Marvel and DC

Marvel started in 1939 as Timely Publications and in the 1950s was known as Atlas comics. In 1961 marvel started to make its name in the comic book industry with its most popular superheros which are also the most popular today such as spider man,the Xmen, Thor, hulk and so on.  They didn't always only just do superhero comics as they also did some comedy based comics in the 1970s .The first movie based on a superhero in marvel was made in 1944 and it was a captain America movie. They also did a movie all about Howard the duck who was a popular marvel comic books character but wasn't a superhero. In all the latest marvel movies Stan lee who was one of the creators of marvel has appeared in all the films. marvel has always been a big well known comic book company and has a revenue of 125.7 million dollars and in 2009 was bought for 4 billion dollars by Disney. Marvel as have three movies coming out this year.

                                                   

DC started in 1934 and like marvel is on of the biggest comic book companies and marvel and dc both make up more than 80% of the comic book market. Like Marvel DC have slot of well know superheros like Superman, Batman,green lantern and so on. DC did their first movie in 1951and was superman and the mole man. DC is owned by Warner bros entertainment and bought them in 1969. DC still concentrates more on the comic book than the movies where as marvel is making a lot more movie than DC who have only got one coming out this year.   

If our film was made into a big movie I think we should be produced by DC as its movies are normally quite dark and so will fit in with our story as it is quite dark and shows our hero as a dark figure instead of the normally superhero that saves the day and so will fit in with the batman movies done by marvel and the watchmen movie.  

film rating

	Votes	Average
Males	249599	8.2
Females	51053	8.4
Aged under 18	9880	8.8
Males under 18	6484	8.7
Females under 18	3396	9.0
Aged 18-29	193672	8.3
Males Aged 18-29	159331	8.3
Females Aged 18-29	34341	8.5
Aged 30-44	82929	8.0
Males Aged 30-44	72407	8.0
Females Aged 30-44	10522	8.2
Aged 45+	12566	7.9
Males Aged 45+	10410	7.9
Females Aged 45+	2156	8.0
IMDb staff	37	8.4
Top 1000 voters	545	7.5
US users	79411	8.5
Non-US users	221241	8.1
IMDb users	463931	8.3

 Avengers has an average rating of 8.3 on the IMDb website and has been rated by 463,897 and is 50th in the top movies this week. From the image above which shows the views of the Avengers and how many people have rated it on the IMDb website, you can see that a lot more men have seen and rated the clip than women however the men appear to have been more critical of the film and have only given it an average of 8.2 where as the women have given it a average rating of 8.4.You can see that it is most popular with people under the ages of 18 and the people older don't rate it as highly because they may be comparing it to the original comics which the younger people don't no much about. However you can see that all years seem to like it as none have voted lower that 7.5 and most have voted in the 8.0s which gives it an average of 8.3 showing it must be a good film which i agree with as I though it was very entertaining and answered lots of questions about the superheros but could have had a better final battle scene.

Votes	Average
Males	304649	8.5
Females	49925	8.6
Aged under 18	10240	9.3
Males under 18	7625	9.3
Females under 18	2615	9.3
Aged 18-29	236123	8.7
Males Aged 18-29	201212	8.7
Females Aged 18-29	34911	8.7
Aged 30-44	94047	8.2
Males Aged 30-44	84121	8.2
Females Aged 30-44	9926	8.2
Aged 45+	12315	7.8
Males Aged 45+	10555	7.8
Females Aged 45+	1760	7.9
IMDb staff	36	7.7
Top 1000 voters	536	7.7
US users	88481	8.6
Non-US users	266093	8.5
IMDb users	564096	8.6

     These ratings are very similar to the avengers and so show that most superhero movies attract a similar audience and you can see that they all attract mainly males but the females they do attract rate it higher. The target market for superhero movies is 18-29 year old and so we will have to set our movies opening around them which may be hard ads we are 16-17 years old but our age group still rate the superhero movies highly and so will focus on attracting 16- 20 year old so that we can know what they find interesting.avenges and the dark knight rises also both have a similar average rating although the dark Knight has a slightly higher rating of 8.6 where as avengers has a rating of 8.3. both movies are also very different because they avengers are more stereotypical superheros unlike batman who can be dark at times but still a hero like our character. Even though they are both different they still attract the same audience which shows that younger people are the people that find superhero movies the most interesting and so this will be our target audience.

Votes	Average
Males	85660	5.8
Females	12999	5.8
Aged under 18	2067	6.1
Males under 18	1505	6.0
Females under 18	562	6.2
Aged 18-29	58067	5.8
Males Aged 18-29	49721	5.8
Females Aged 18-29	8346	5.8
Aged 30-44	32534	5.8
Males Aged 30-44	29335	5.8
Females Aged 30-44	3199	5.7
Aged 45+	5503	6.0
Males Aged 45+	4768	6.0
Females Aged 45+	735	5.9
IMDb staff	18	6.3
Top 1000 voters	450	5.4
US users	26850	5.9
Non-US users	71809	5.8
IMDb users	129996	5.8

Unlike the avengers and the dark knight rises the green lantern got a bad rating and only got an average rating of 5.8 which is bad compared to the other two films. you can also see that the unlike the over movies I have done the women and males rated it the same and this film has also got far fewer votes than the over films which shows that it was a poor film and not many people wanted to comment on it. Unlike most superhero films it was more popular with older people and this may be because the younger people are comparing it to better superhero movies. This may be something we have to think about because we need to make sure we have a good enough opening to compete and entertain the audience like the avengers and dark knight movies. This will mean we have to be able to entertain the audience and interest them and not mess up like the green lantern movie did.