Bob Iger is an ideologue, but he’s a smart one. He’s riding the woke train straight into the mountain, but he knows he has to have at least some business sense to keep it running as long as he can. The Machiavellian way he used Bob Chapek as the fall guy for the disastrous results …
Ant-Man and the Wasp are being squashed like bugs. In its second weekend, Marvel’s latest superhero outing, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, dropped from its $106 million domestic opening to just under $32 million, according to The Numbers. This is a 70% drop, the worst in the MCU’s history. I...
Read MoreProfessor X and Magneto may not be done with their chess game yet. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight while promoting season 3 of Picard (which is supposed to be really good), Stewart was asked if he’d be returning to play Charles Xavier after his brief appearance in Doctor Strange in the ...
Read MoreDisney may be trying to combat “superhero fatigue” in addition to cutting costs. A week ago, Bob Iger talked about “curating” the company’s top brands. “In additionally[sic] we are going to lean more into our franchises, our core franchises, and our brands. I talked about curation in gen...
Read MoreMarvel is moving beyond simple trailers to market its movies. Today, they unveiled a video with Paul Rudd advertising Scott Lang’s memoirs, entitled Look Out for the Little Guy, which he’ll be selling in the upcoming film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. It looks like a gag to garner interest ...
Read MoreAccording to the Nielsen ratings, Amazon Prime’s The Boys outperformed all of the Disney+ MCU TV series as 2022’s #1 superhero show. The Boys raked in 10.6 billion minutes of view time. The Boys and Rings of Power, both from Amazon, are the only non-Netflix properties to make Nielsen...
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