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Marvel is back – ostensibly. Following a run of box-office duds and Disney+ series that few people seemed to watch or care about, the superhero-centric movie studio has resurrected itself with Deadpool & Wolverine. In its first week of release, the film (a second sequel to 2016’s Deadpool) banked half a billion dollars and nudged the Marvel Cinematic Universe across the $30bn (£23.6bn) threshold.