Marvel is now part of Disney and eventually the rival studio will make movies based on the Marvel characters.

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Lee will be joined by Marvel writer David and Beenox Studio Head Dee Brown.

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In addition to the world's biggest airport, largest man-made islands, longest indoor ski slope and some of the biggest shopping malls and hotels anywhere, it is also building a mega theme park, Dubailand, which consists of some 45 separate projects, including such brand-name attractions as Legoland, a Tiger Woods golf course, a Six Flags fun fair, a Formula One park, and themed attractions from DreamWorks (a Hollywood film studio) and Marvel Comics.

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Uniquely in Hollywood, many of Disney's movies come not from its namesake studio but corporate siblings including Marvel Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, and, soon, Lucasfilm, the company behind "Star Wars" that Disney acquired last year.

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In June, Rovio acquired Finnish animation studio Kombo and hired the ex chairman of Marvel to produce a future feature film.

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"It's the perfect way to start the new studio, to blast it off, " Marvel Studios Chairman David Maisel told the Reuters news agency.

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By making the deal to buy distribution rights to The Avengers and Iron Man 3, the studio brings in-house two of the most important upcoming Marvel films.

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As FORBES went to press Rovio had just hired the former chairman of Marvel to produce its first feature film, and Vesterbacka was hobnobbing with movie studio execs at Cannes.

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