At the New York Times’ DealBook Summit earlier today (via CNBC), Bob Iger talked about Disney’s recent failures and what caused them, and his scapegoats probably won’t surprise you. They’re a mix of streaming, the pandemic, Bob Chapek, and executives not exerting enough control over film pr...
Read MoreIman Vellani is learning from her peers’ mistakes; she’s been handling the failure of her new film The Marvels well, refraining from blaming fans and, now, addressing some of the issues that are turning people off of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In an exclusive interview with The Direct, Vell...
Read MoreOnce again, Marvel is keeping their creative choices in-house. Deadline exclusively reports that Michael Waldron has been chosen to write the script for Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, the next Avengers movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Waldron previously wrote Doctor Strange in the Multiverse o...
Read MoreMarvel is thinking about bringing in the big guns. According to scooper Daniel Richtman, Sam Raimi is “a top choice” to direct Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars. The Kang Dynasty was going to be directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, but he left the film last week, with rumors t...
Read MoreMarvel is looking to the gods to save them. In an interview with Inverse, Taika Waititi confirms that a fifth Thor film is being planned, or at least discussed. He says he’s “heard” that Marvel is talking to Chris Hemsworth to come back for another film as the God of Thunder, although Waititi...
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...
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