Marvel’s $1.1B Superhero Sensation Officially Surges on Apple TV Ahead of ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

The hype for Avengers: Doomsday is reaching fever pitch. A WWE crossover, blockbuster trailers, and impressive ticket sales have Doomsday ​​​​​​on everyone’s minds. However, the latest MCU movie has taken a sad turn: it will be the final film appearance of a true icon. The great Patrick Stewart, who will appear in Doomsday as Charles Xavier, sadly passed away at the age of 86 late last month. Tributes for the actor poured in from across the world, and tears will certainly be shed on December 18 when he makes his unrivaled presence felt in Doomsday​​​​​​.

Stewart isn’t the only big name involved in the project, with one of the most jaw-dropping casts assembled for any film this century. Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Mackie, Tom Hiddleston, Florence Pugh, Vanessa Kirby, Pedro Pascal, and many more have joined the Russo Brothers‘ latest, with more names still in the rumor mill, as the likes of Mark Ruffalo and Ryan Reynolds look like potential cameo candidates. As the world gears up for Doomsday, fans are flocking to every possible streaming site to catch a previous MCU entry.

This has resulted in Marvel appearances in some surprise streaming top tens. For example, at the time of writing, 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home is one of the ten most-streamed movies on Apple TV in the world, doing battle with the likes of Brad Pitt‘s F1, Steven Spielberg‘s Ready Player One, and the brand-new John Cena-led smash hit, Matchbox. The second MCU Spidey movie, Far From Home, earned over $1.1 billion worldwide against a budget of $160 million during a strong theatrical run in 2019, with Jon Watts returning to direct the film following his work on the previous entry, Spider-Man: Homecoming.

Four teams, four completely different reasons to put yourself in danger
for strangers. This is the roster you actually belong on, what they would want from you, and what it
would cost you to stay.

You belong where the stakes are largest and the personalities are
loudest. This is a team of people who are all used to being the most important person in the
room, which is exactly why it works and exactly why it keeps nearly falling apart.

• The Avengers are not friends who became a team. They are a team that slowly and
  reluctantly became friends, and you would recognise every stage of that process.
• You can hold your own among big egos without needing to win every exchange, which is the
  real entry requirement here.
• The arguing is part of the method. This group does its best thinking mid-disagreement,
  usually at volume, usually in a very expensive building.
• When the sky opens, they are who shows up. You would want to be standing in that line.

You have never had the luxury of being thanked for this. The
X-Men protect a world that has never once been comfortable with them existing, and something
in you understands exactly why they keep doing it anyway.

• This is the only team on the list whose central conflict is not a villain. It is being
  wanted gone by the same people they keep saving.
• You know what it is to be the outsider in a room and to decide, anyway, that you will
  not make yourself smaller so everyone else is comfortable.
• The X-Men are the most genuine found family in comics. People arrive with nowhere else
  to go and are never once asked to explain themselves.
• You would not be joining for the glory. There has never been any.

You do not want colleagues, you want your people. The Titans are
the team where the friendship came first and the world-saving turned up afterwards as an
inconvenient side effect.

• Every Titan is somebody’s sidekick who decided to stop being one. That decision, not the
  villain of the week, is what the team is actually about.
• You would be joining people who are all working themselves out at the same time as you,
  which is far less lonely than being the only one.
• The Titans lose regularly. Then they eat together and come back better, which is a more
  honest model of growing up than any other team here manages.
• The tower would be loud, chaotic, and the first place that ever felt like yours.

You are not asking who to trust. You worked out the answer a
while ago and it was nobody in a cape. This is where you go once you have decided the people
in charge need watching, and that nobody else is going to do it.

• The Boys have no powers, no mandate and no funding. What they have is leverage,
  patience, and a very high tolerance for consequences.
• You are the person in the room who notices the thing everybody else has quietly agreed
  not to mention.
• This is not a heroic team and it has never pretended otherwise. It is a group of damaged
  people doing necessary work in ways nobody would call clean.
• You would not sleep well. You would keep going anyway.

2026 Was the Summer of ‘Spider-Man’

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Far From Home‘s streaming success comes following an all-conquering summer for Tom Holland‘s Friendly Neighborhood hero, who took his latest big-screen effort, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, to jaw-dropping box office heights. After an unstoppable run in theaters, Brand New Day has toppled many major milestones, most notably overtaking Star Wars: The Force Awakens to become the highest-grossing film of all time domestically.

Spider-Man: Far From Home is a streaming hit. Make sure to stay tuned to Collider for all the latest streaming stories.

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