With Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom and all of its problems (see the latest story posted in the DC thread) hitting theaters just a month latter, it definitely feels like we're reaching some kind of inflection point for both Marvel and DC. It hopefully can't get worse for either, and can only go up from here. But man, what a depressing couple of months for superhero movies.
The two have always been connected so this is hardly news. Still, I bet it's as much a "sequel" as it is to Ms Marvel. As in, we'll catch you up in 5 seconds and otherwise our writing teams didn't really talk to each other much.
A movie hardly anyone is looking forward to seeing, being the sequel to a Disney+ series hardly anyone is watching, might very well result in rock bottom for the MCU come November. There's always the chance/hope that The Marvels is good, but even if it is I just don't know how much that's going to help its box office prospects. Especially seeing as it releases just a week after Dune: Part Two, which is looking more and more like a massive crowd-pleaser...
'THE MARVELS' is reportedly a sequel to 'SECRET INVASION'.
I bet that it would make under, I think, $585M worldwide. Somewhere around there. Porkchop took the over, but he disappeared off the face of the earth (TexAgs), so I guess our bet is off? Unless he shows up again…
Eh, I'm more confident than ever in my bet. Especially in light of a number of blockbusters recently that were expected to be massive hits not even coming close to that number.
A movie hardly anyone is looking forward to seeing, being the sequel to a Disney+ series hardly anyone is watching, might very well result in rock bottom for the MCU come November. There's always the chance/hope that The Marvels is good, but even if it is I just don't know how much that's going to help its box office prospects. Especially seeing as it releases just a week after Dune: Part Two, which is looking more and more like a massive crowd-pleaser...
i think you're 100% correct and that's probably the most damning part about it.
it's one thing for marvel to do bad numbers if the content is lousy, but the notion that a "good" movie wouldn't do well would have been unthinkable a couple of years ago
A movie hardly anyone is looking forward to seeing, being the sequel to a Disney+ series hardly anyone is watching, might very well result in rock bottom for the MCU come November. There's always the chance/hope that The Marvels is good, but even if it is I just don't know how much that's going to help its box office prospects. Especially seeing as it releases just a week after Dune: Part Two, which is looking more and more like a massive crowd-pleaser...
'THE MARVELS' is reportedly a sequel to 'SECRET INVASION'.
With Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom and all of its problems (see the latest story posted in the DC thread) hitting theaters just a month latter, it definitely feels like we're reaching some kind of inflection point for both Marvel and DC. It hopefully can't get worse for either, and can only go up from here. But man, what a depressing couple of months for superhero movies.
Honestly if we can move on from superhero movies then I'm all for it. Its been a good run but they manged to make me bored with almost every superhero property there is.
It'll still probably disappoint at the box office, but I think I'll probably enjoy it. Looks like the three leads have some chemistry together at least. Hopefully 1) the villain isn't lame and 2) it's not an over-the-top CGI-fest (it probably will be just due to the setting).
I like Vellani's Kamela Khan and how they've adapted her powers to live action. Captain Marvel is a cool character with fun stories to tell if they can write Larson out of her tough guy shell.
Also, they just announced that Ms Marvel is joining the X-men as a New Mutant in a comic run later this summer, so that sort of parallels some of the exploration we saw in the D+ series.
Looks fun (again). Pretty much the same trailer as the last one. Either they're keeping things close to the vest, or what we've seen is pretty much all there is to it. Hopefully the former. Maybe to avoid spoiling things about any Secret Invasion tie-ins?
Looks fun (again). Pretty much the same trailer as the last one. Either they're keeping things close to the vest, or what we've seen is pretty much all there is to it. Hopefully the former. Maybe to avoid spoiling things about any Secret Invasion tie-ins?
That's what I can't figure out. Not a Skrull to be seen.