This man has produced movies that have brought in over $31 billion at the box office, even though he has never directed a motion picture.
One of the largest and most successful filmmakers of our time is James Cameron. One of his movies has been the highest-grossing movie ever, and three of them have made over $2 billion at the box office. His combined production and directing credits are slightly around $10 billion. However, that only accounts for one-third of the most successful and highest-grossing director of all time—a man who has never held the position of director but has produced pictures that have grossed over $31 billion.The highest-grossing movie ever made
The highest-grossing director of all time is Kevin Feige, the current president of Marvel Studios and the creator of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Over $31.1 billion has been made at the box office from the movies he has produced. This astounding figure more than doubles that of the next person on the list, David Heyman, the producer of Harry Potter, who has less than $14 billion in his name. Christopher Nolan's films have made $8 billion at the box office, while Steven Spielberg's films (including those he produced but did not direct) have made $11 billion. Together, these titans are still trailing Kevin Feige's incredible box office performance.
How the box office was dominated by Kevin Feige
The creation of the largest and most prosperous movie series in history, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has been Kevin Feige's primary claim to fame. Over the past 17 years, 34 movies based on the series have been released in theaters. Kevin Feige has produced all of these movies, which have taken in nearly $31 billion at the box office.
Feige's copious output has been essential to his success. With several releases in a single year, including one of the most successful series in history (the four Avengers films have brought in $7.7 billion), the MCU is a massive beast.Other producers have about a dozen releases during this time frame, but Feige has managed to release 34 because of the MCU's expansion and branching out. Given that the MCU has twelve more movies in the works, this series will undoubtedly approach the $50 billion milestone.
The ascent to prominence of Kevin Feige
Kevin Feige assisted executive producer Lauren Shuler Donner on Volcano and You've Got Mail after earning a degree in film from the University of Southern California in 1995. Donner was pleased by Feige's familiarity with Marvel Comics and hired him as an associate producer on X-Men (2000). In the same year, he was appointed as a producer by Avi Arad, the head of Marvel Entertainment.Feige discovered during his time here that Marvel still owned the rights to a number of important characters, including the main Avengers. As a result, he pitched a series of related movies, a kind of shared universe, much like Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had done in the 1960s comics. After his concept was approved in 2007, he was appointed chief of production at Marvel.
Iron Man, the first movie in the MCU, was a huge success when it came out in 2008. Feige was elevated to president of Marvel Studios following its popularity, a role he continues to occupy. Following Avengers: Endgame's triumph and the Infinity Saga's climax, Feige was also named Marvel Entertainment's chief creative officer in 2019.Marvel Animation, Marvel Comics, and Marvel Television.
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