Will there be a Marvel Cinematic Universe DVD/Blu-ray box set?

[TheFantasticJoe]

Forgive me if this is the wrong board for this topic.

I was just wondering if there have been any plans to release a Blu-ray box set for the five Marvel Cinematic Universe movies before The Avengers comes out. I think it would be cool to have, and it would also be easier for newcomers to get into the franchise before The Avengers is released.

Has there been any word on this yet?

 

[Steve Holt]

i've been wondering this myself

 

[Ultra Lantern]

Maybe some time before the holidys,they'll be on sale.

 

[Figs]

This is almost guaranteed. They wouldn't pass this opportunity up to make a grip of money. If they did, I would wait until another year or so. They would most likely release it again including the actual Avengers film.

 

[kedrell]

^This is what I think they'll do. It'll be all ready for the holidays 2012. Too bad the world will have ended before that.

 

[Liam_H]

Almost guaranteed they'll release a box set. Probably another one once Avengers 2 comes out, then Avengers 3 and so forth.

 

[UnionJack]

Of course they will release a box set it will make lots of money.

 

[R_Hythlodeus]

Who has the distribution rights for these movies? Are they with marvel?

 

[psylockolussus]

Yup! to promote the Avengers movie next year.

 

[WildcatNC]

There damn well better be. Directors cuts too.

 

[UnionJack]

Who has the distribution rights for these movies? Are they with marvel?

All the Marvel films have being releases through Paramount.
Avengers and forward will be Disney I guess.

 

[Hellion]

Most likely the Paramount's will be released together and the Disney's will be released together...eventually, and hopefully one day we'll get a complete set when all the films are released...

 

[R_Hythlodeus]

All the Marvel films have being releases through Paramount.
Avengers and forward will be Disney I guess.

Well, that makes a DVD/BR box very unlikely

 

[misjuevos]

i remember seeing superhero box sets in the stores. when the other fox marvel movies came out.

 

[PyroChamber]

All the Marvel films have being releases through Paramount.

Incredible Hulk was through Universal.

 

[Steve Holt]

in the US, in Australia we got an IM/IH blu-ray combo

 

[co2]

I bought Thor the other day and the same thought about the box set occured to me..and yes, I believe it will be here after Avengers.

 

[R_Hythlodeus]

makes a box set more likely:

Why Paramount and Not Disney is Credited in Avengers Promos

by SuperHeroHype
October 12, 2011
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Didn't Disney make a deal to market and distribute the film?

Some people have wondered why it is Paramount Pictures and not Walt Disney Pictures that is credited in the The Avengers promos. After all, last October they announced that they had "reached an agreement under which Paramount will transfer its worldwide marketing and distribution rights to Disney for Marvel Studios' The Avengers and Iron Man 3... Under terms of the new deal, Disney will pay Paramount $115 million for the transfer of the distribution rights to Iron Man 3 and The Avengers to be paid on the theatrical release dates. These monies will serve as a minimum guarantee against the distribution fees. In completing this agreement, Disney will now assume worldwide marketing and distribution of 'The Avengers' and 'Iron Man 3'."
Yet, when you look at both the teaser poster and the new trailer, there is no mention of Disney at all. Variety has a report on this and mentions that some things were left out of the original announcement:

Knowing Disney wanted to turn "The Avengers" into a franchise and bank on the success of "Iron Man" after buying Marvel for $4 billion, Par's brass negotiated a deal in which it continues to collect 8% of the B.O. as part of fees it would have earned for distribbing the pic, as it did with the two "Iron Man" pics, "Thor" and "Captain America." It gets 9% for "Iron Man 3."

At the minimum, it earns $115 million, should they not perform.

At the same time, the deal granted Par placement on the marketing materials for both titles, even though Marvel's films are fully owned by Disney and will be solely distributed and marketed by the Mouse House, Variety learned.
While moviegoers will continue to think Paramount is releasing The Avengers and Iron Man 3 in theaters, it is Disney doing all the work and who we talk to behind the scenes. A strange situation for sure, but we'll get our superhero movies no matter what.