Marvel films make money. Lots of it. As we reported yesterday, Captain America: Civil War made $180 million on its US opening weekend alone. We decided to look into how much money the Marvel Cinematic Universe has earned since the first Iron Man film was released eight years ago, and you can see the findings below. 

For this, we only looked at the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which comprises of The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy and the associated stand alone films.  Marvel also have their TV deal with Netflix, the X-Men franchise, and of course, the merchandise.