Tag: mcu

Victoria Alonso Out at Marvel

I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up too high, but Marvel Studios has made its first rational decision in a long time (aside from “delaying” a bunch of awful-sounding productions nobody wants). The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively revealed that Marvel executive Victoria Alonso “parted w...

Bob Iger Talks Marvel and Theme Parks Future

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 …

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Rogue Squadron and Kevin Feige-Produced Star Wars Film Canceled

Star Wars is dropping some dead weight. Variety exclusively reports that, according to their sources, not only is Patty Jenkins’ Rogue Squadron dead but the Star Wars film to be produced by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has also been scrapped. (The official phrase is “no longer in active ...

What Does Quantumania’s Box Office Drop Mean for Marvel?

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...

REVIEW: Cocaine Bear (2023)

Unlike the majority of movies and television discussed on this site, Universal Pictures’ Cocaine Bear is an incredibly difficult movie to review. Cocaine Bear is not an intelligent movie. It is not well-acted, well-written, or well-done, and the script is utterly atrocious. But hot damn if it isn�...

Was Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Almost a Good Movie?

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has been out for a week – with no apology to moviegoers forthcoming, it would seem – so it’s time to get into the nitty-gritty of the film and why it doesn’t work. As luck would have it, screenwriter Jeff Loveness did an interview with The Hollywood Reporter...