Key Movies: “The Avengers” and “The Dark Knight Rises.”
Summer 2012 kicked off with the culmination of Marvel’s Phase One, a May blockbuster that played well into August and September — much like films used to back in the ’90s and early aughts. “Avengers” made every studio in town envious, and sent them on a mission to combine their IP into a shared universe as quickly as possible — despite having failed to earn it from audiences the way Marvel did by building up to one hell of a entertaining payoff.
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