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Gollum is a monster [2] with a distinctive style of speech in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth. He was introduced in the 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit, and became important in its sequel, The Lord of the Rings. Gollum was a Stoor Hobbit [T 1] [T 2] of the River-folk who lived near the Gladden Fields.
Andrew Clement Serkis [1] [2] (born 20 April 1964) is an English actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his motion capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for computer-generated characters such as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), King Kong in the eponymous 2005 film, Caesar in the Planet ...
Serkis at GalaxyCon Austin in 2023. English actor Andy Serkis has been featured in various films, television series, and video games. Serkis started acting in the late 1980s with small roles on the television series Morris Minor and His Marvellous Motors (1989), and The New Statesman (1989) before being cast as Owen in Streetwise from 1989–1992.
Banner and his alter ego appeared in a 1978 live-action TV series, and in a 2003 film that received mixed reviews, [11] with Marvel Studios regaining the film production rights for the character in February 2006. [12] In the mid-2000s, Kevin Feige realized that Marvel still owned the rights to the core members of the Avengers, which now ...
The films have been in production since 2007, and in that time Marvel Studios has produced and released 34 films, with at least 11 more in various stages of development. It is the highest-grossing film franchise of all time, having grossed over $31.1 billion at the global box office.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is a media franchise and shared fictional universe that is the setting of superhero television series based on characters that appear in Marvel Comics publications. The MCU first expanded to television with series from Marvel Television that released from 2013 until 2020 on ABC, Netflix, Hulu, and Freeform.
Phase One of the franchise includes six films, featuring four different superhero properties, leading up to a crossover in the 2012 film Marvel's The Avengers.The franchise's Phase Two features three sequels to Phase One films, as well as two new film properties, and the crossover Avengers: Age of Ultron, which released in 2015.
Following the release of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Iron Man 2 (2010), the timing and distribution arrangement of a possible third Iron Man film was brought into question due to a conflict between Paramount Pictures—the distributor of previous Marvel Studios films including the first two Iron Man films—and Marvel Entertainment's new corporate parent, the Walt Disney Company. [1]