Tag: Iron Man
Are the Avengers Assembling Again?
Marvel wants to call in the Avengers again. Variety published a long article about the many woes facing the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from bad CGI to market saturation, and while the piece did its best to shield the company (no mention of its focus on identity politics, making sure to end with a q...
Read MoreIs Secret Wars Going to Reboot the MCU?
The Avengers may assemble once again to save the MCU. The evidence for this comes from the newly released book MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios by Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, and Gavin Edwards. While on the podcast The Watch, Robinson talked about her interview with Kevin Feige for the book and...
Read MoreMarvel’s Avengers Price Drops 90% Ahead of Delisting
That Avengers game almost nobody played and even fewer people liked is going out with a whimper instead of the bang you’d expect from Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. At the beginning of the year, Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics announced that their big superhero video game, Marvel’s Avengers, would...
Read MoreJoss Whedon and the Death of Drama
One of the common complaints about entertainment in the last few years – one I’ve had, too – is that it has too much humor. It’s a funny thing to say when the comedy is all but dead (with the rare entries being joyless lectures disguised as fun – with the odd exception), but it’s &hellip...
Read MoreThe Actors’ Strike is Happening and AI is at its Center
Actors are leaving movie sets for the picket lines. SAG-AFTRA – the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists – will be going on strike at midnight tonight (Pacific Time), joining the continuing strike of the WGA, or Writers’ Guild of America. SAG has been threate...
Read MoreScarlett Johansson Rules Out Returning to Marvel
Black Widow will sting no more, at least in the movies. In a recent appearance on Gwyneth Paltrow’s podcast Gloop (because of course Gwyneth Paltrow’s podcast is called Gloop; I know it’s the name of her product line, but still, it screams Gwyneth Paltrow), Scarlett Johansson told her fellow M...
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