What’s up, Geeks + Games? It’s ODIN! There is no doubt that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a shadow of its former self, with the 2023 releases accounting for some of the biggest box office bombs of any studio that year. Not only does Disney clearly overspend on the budgets and marketing for ea...
Read MoreAs disastrous as The Marvels’ opening weekend box office was, its second weekend painted an even direr picture. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the new Marvel film dropped 78%, the largest second-weekend drop not just for an MCU film but for any superhero film “in the modern era” (which i...
Read MoreMarvel’s scrappiest group of misfits is carving out an underdog story more endearing than anything it’s put out in the movies in years. After a disappointing opening weekend, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 had mostly been written off as another Marvel underperformer, perhaps even a bomb. It was ...
Read MoreGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 may not be lighting up the box office, but it did set a record. According to a fascinating piece in Variety, the film has more prosthetics than any other movie ever made. Guardians 3 used “22,500 prosthetics, 500 wigs and 130 facial hairpieces,” unseating the previ...
Read MoreThe opening weekend results are in, and it looks like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is going to be another Marvel disappointment at the box office. The last of James Gunn’s spacefaring MCU trilogy took in $118.4 million, which the entertainment media is complimenting as being above predictions, b...
Read MoreAfter the last few years of Marvel duds, disappointments, and flat-out disasters, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 feels like a miracle. I’ll stop short of declaring it as such, but it’s an oasis in the desert made up of the remains of what the Marvel Cinematic Universe used to be. It feels like a...
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