You'd think that a film capable of raking in around $1.4 billion dollars in the global box office would be considered an unqualified success by the studio that produced it. Not when that studio is Disney however.

According to Comic Book site Bleeding Cool, the studio isn't too thrilled with both the critical and commercial performance of Avengers: Age of Ultron, the second superhero team up from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The $1.4 billion haul it earned was good for sixth all-time in box office receipts, but it fell just short of the original Avengers' $1.5 billion take.

Age of Ultron may not even finish among 2015's top box office champions. It currently sits third behind Universal Studios' chart topping one-two punch of Jurassic World and Furious Seven based on boxofficemojo's tally. With the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, James Bond's latest outing Spectre, and Disney's other 2015 tent pole Star Wars: The Force Awakens all looking like billion dollar contenders, it looks like Earth's Mightiest Heroes might not make it to a podium finish.

Critics have not been as kind to Ultron as well. It currently sits at a respectable 74% on movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. An okay figure for sure, but nowhere near the 92% mark set by its predecessor.

Bleeding Cool says Ultron's 'failure' was the reason for the recent friction between Marvel Studios' boss Kevin Feige and Marvel CEO Issac Perlmutter. The resulting organizational shuffle saw Feige taken out from under Perlmutter's supervision and placed under the purview of Disney itself. Feige also disbanded the Marvel Creative Committee. Whether these moves will be good for Marvel and its upcoming slate of films remains unclear.

The studio is hoping 2016's Captain America: Civil War will be a return to form for the comic book franchise.