Marvel Barely Makes Top 10 Best Movie Franchises of All Time

The adrenalin-fueled Bourne franchise, based on the character Jason Bourne, created by author Robert Ludlum, encompasses five films. The first movie in the series, “The Bourne Identity,” was released in 2002. Matt Damon plays Jason Bourne, a CIA assassin afflicted with dissociative amnesia pursued by CIA operatives and paid assassins. Damon appeared in four of the five movies, which have grossed $1.06 billion at the box office.

To All the Boys is a movie franchise about teenage romance told in feature films and a spin-off television series written by Jenny Han. The series starred Lana Condor and Noah Centineo. The plot focuses on a shy teen girl who writes letters she has no intention of sending to boys she has crushes on. The movies show her experiences after the letters are received by the young men. The three films are “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before”(2018), “To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You” (2020), and “To All the Boys: Always and Forever” (2021).

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the motion-picture industry’s overall top movie franchise, and within the franchise there are sub-franchises about particular superheroes. There are three Iron Man films – “Iron Man” (2008), “Iron Man 2” (2010), and “Iron Man 3” (2013). Iron Man is billionaire engineer Tony Stark, who creates a weaponized suit of armor to battle evil. Robert Downey Jr., who plays the title role, and Gwyneth Paltrow have appeared in all three films.

Kung Fu Panda is an animated three-movie franchise featuring Po, an oafish, overweight panda, selected to protect his homeland against various enemies. The voices of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, and Angelina Jolie are heard in each film – “Kung Fu Panda” (2008), “Kung Fu Panda 2″ (2011), and Kung Fu Panda 3” (2016).

The Indiana Jones movie franchise is director Steve Spielberg’s homage to action-adventure films from the 1930s. Indiana Jones is a swashbuckling archeologist whose adventures pit him against Nazis in Egypt and cult members in India. Known for its exotic locales and hair-raising brushes with death, the five films in the series have totaled $2.08 billion in domestic box-office gross. Three films in the franchise were the top-grossing movies of their year of release.