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I don't see a connection there. My avatar is the Cave of Wonders from Aladdin. For anyone interested, it is worth noting that Wheel of Fortuna is having a "Marvel Superheroes" themed week this week with themed puzzles, set design and related prizes for the contestants.

The closest theater currently selling advance tickets for Spider-Man is 424 miles away. :laugh: It looks like I'll stick with my Blu-rays.

You're right. I think that's because they had so many good ones that the occasional lesser film was easier to overlook. The Dark World was adequate, but they followed it with The Water Soldier. Ten years on from The Winter Soldier, I still know a lot of fans who cite that one as their...

Again, I remain very skeptical of any "news" on random Twitter accounts. That being said, I'm not sure that we need anyone to tell us that Captain Marvel 3 and Ant-Man 4 won't happen. Both of their movies last year lost money and were generally poorly regarded. Yet they didn't seem like risks...

Cinemark has these listed as part of a "Sony 100" series. The only thing that bothers me here is that nothing else is listed other than these films. There is no question that Spider-Man has been an important franchise for Sony, and no celebration of important films from their history would be...

I'm not sure why I should believe that tweet. Do we have any evidence at all that Marvel is currently doing anything to cast new X-Men roles? At this time, they seem to be bringing previous Fox X-Men actors into the MCU via the multiverse. Cavill is a good actor and he would be welcome in the...

I suspect they'll do that when the "multiverse saga" is finally finished. Bringing the Fox versions over feels almost like a cheat code of sorts for the multiverse because that universe had already been established in the Fox films. They don't have to actually do any of the groundwork to...

While I see what you're saying, I don't think the audience at large would see it that way. Introducing a version of RDJ as Tony would be looked upon by most of the audience as a way of getting the character back, even if it was a different version of him from a different timeline. I absolutely...

https://deadline.com/2023/11/tom-holland-spins-spider-man-says-fourth-film-discussed-1235647402/

I just had an idea. I want to be clear that I have not heard anything about this actually happening, so it shouldn't be considered a rumor. It just popped into my head as something they could do. But if I ran Marvel, I would call up Kenneth Branagh and see if he would want to come back for...

I see your point and acknowledge it and would agree with it if everybody who saw the movie went over there and rated it. But the audience score on Rotten Tomatoes is only representative of people who care enough about it to go online and rate the movie. I don't think that's the general...

I think the reaction to the movie is worse for Disney/Marvel than Majors is. If the legal problems are the sole issue, they can just recast the character. Majors has been in one poorly received movie and a handful of TV episodes. Neither the fan base nor the wider public is attached enough to...

The MCU has been PG-13 since Iron Man in 2008. Young audiences who started with that movie are now more than old enough to see Deadpool. I guess it depends on how many current audience members Marvel thinks they have in the under-17 age bracket. I don't know the answer to that. They probably...

I get what you're saying but whether the public knew or not isn't really relevant. Marvel hd a movie which introduced a villain they intend to use long-term, and the reaction to that film was "Meh." That's a problem.

Obviously, it depends on what you do with it. Across the Spider-Verse is an incredibly compelling multiverse story adapted from Marvel characters. Sony is doing it better than Disney is! That's not something I would have expected to type a few years ago. The MCU just isn't doing a very good...

Majors has played a different version of the character in each of his appearances so far. Obviously, we don't yet know what happens in the end of Loki season two yet. But He Who Remains from Loki and Kang the Conquerer from Quantumania are both dead. Even though all of the variants of Kang so...

I think more than any one single project, the lead of the Variety is that Marvel is in crisis mode right now. I suppose it's good news that they are aware of the problem. But I'm not sure about some of the course correction ideas proposed in the article. I have been a loyal MCU fan for years...

That article is based on information in this one, which has a lot more context. Personally, I don't think Doctor Doom is the the biggest takeaway here. https://variety.com/2023/film/features/marvel-jonathan-majors-problem-the-marvels-reshoots-kang-1235774940/

Didn't Chris Hemsworth say he was taking a hiatus from acting for a while? If so, that would probably preclude Thor 5 from happening right now. And Disney can't talk to him at the moment because of the strike.

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/incredible-hulk-director-louis-leterrier-grey-hulk-red-hulks-axed-sequel-1235688670/

I suspect Maguire didn't want to go into that in No Way Home without Raimi, which makes sense. As I said above, I think the thing they need to figure out is what the story is that justifies bringing MJ back, not just that it would be a hook to sell tickets. I don't want another overstuffed mess...

Normally, I would agree with your thoughtful assessment here. But the fact that No Way Home was so well-received will speak more to Sony than The Flash's underperformance. The influence of the Raimi-verse on No Way Home was so significant, with not only Maguire but also Dafoe, Molina and...

It has surprised me how persistent the talk has been about having them come back after No Way Home. Neither of their series got an ending, really, because they expected to make sequels that never happened. I felt when I saw No Way Home that one of the reasons it was great is because it was...

If Raimi is in fact doing this, it would almost certainly be in the same universe as his original Spider-Man films. No Way Home made that universe sort of adjacent to the MCU, but I think Sony would do this on their own. They cooperate with Disney on the Tom Holland series set in the primary...

I'm sure Disney would still like three tentpoles a year if they can get it. But the budgets need to remain under control and the quality control needs to be higher. Having so many projects come out one right after the other after the other after the other after the other made Marvel less of an...

Absolutely.

None of these films are new today. All Disney is doing is shuffling release dates for previously announced projects. Sam Wilson is Captain America. I am sure you are right. But Kang isn't Disney's only Majors problem. They still have to figure out what to do with his other movie, Magazine...

I saw Quantumania once in theaters on its opening weekend back in February before I came down with Covid. Granted, it has been a couple of months. But I definitely don't remember anything Pride-related in the movie. Although I don't like the idea of censoring it, I'm not sure if that...

Disney has reached a settlement with Victoria Alonso following her firing. "While details between Alonso and Disney are confidential, there was a multi-million financial compensation, we hear. The deal between the parties was reached in the past few days."...