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Image via Marvel Studios Thanks to the Multiverse Saga, Marvel Studios is swallowing up a bunch of other major Marvel franchises into the MCU’s extended reality. Doctor Strange 2 folded in the X-Men universe through Patrick Stewart’s Professor X, Spider-Man: No Way Home did the same for the Raimiverse, the Amazing-verse, and the Sony universe, and no doubt plenty more are coming in Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars. And now the multiverse has expanded when fans weren’t even expecting it. Despite opening…

Image via Marvel Studios Things have gone quiet on the Jonathan Majors front over the last week, with very little news regarding the charges filed against the actor being revealed since his representatives released screenshots they claimed proved his innocence beyond a shadow of a doubt. As of yet, Marvel has yet to officially comment on the matter, but it can’t help but be noticed that the actor’s Kang the Conqueror is nowhere to be found in a new promo hyping the impending VOD and digital release of Ant-Man…

Image via Marvel Studios Marvel Studios’ executive team has been piling up a lot of controversy in recent weeks. The studio behind the world’s highest-grossing franchise has come under fire for poor work practices and workforce treatment in the visual effects department for the past year, the consequences of which were often visible in the VFX work in the franchise’s Phase Four projects. In response, Marvel Studios recently let Victoria Alonso, the company’s long-time Visual Effects Head, go, citing her as the…

via Marvel Studios After another lackluster weekend at the box office, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania‘s theatrical run is almost completely out of gas, and the third installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s tiniest franchise hasn’t even cracked $500 million in ticket sales yet. Not only does that make it the lowest-earning of the three Ant-Man adventures – a rarity in itself when sequels almost always perform above their predecessors especially in the MCU – but it’s also going to earn the least money…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMarvel bosses are trying to find the source of an Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantamania leak.The film, starring Paul Rudd and Jonathan Majors, was released in cinemas on 17 February. However, details of the plot were leaked online months before.Comic book studio Marvel intends to take legal action over the leak, according to a Disney company source.As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, a…

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania stars (L-R) Paul Rudd, Kathryn Newton, and Evangeline Lily, and opened on February 17 to mixed reviews.Image: DisneyMarvel’s latest entry to its superhero empire, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, opened last month to mixed reviews from both critics and diehard MCU fans alike. But a polarizing reception is the least of Marvel’s worries surrounding the film as the studio tries to pin down the scoundrels that leaked the movie’s script on Reddit. As detailed by TorrentFreak, Marvel is not…

At the start of the year, someone on the Marvel Studios Spoilers subreddit, a community dedicated to upcoming Marvel productions, posted the mother of all MCU leaks. A month before the release of , a user named MSSmods shared a 63-page Google Doc transcript of the film’s dialogue. Now, Disney wants to know who was behind the leak and is trying to force Reddit and Google to identify the person or group of people responsible. As first reported by , Disney’s MVL Film Finance unit, a subsidiary the company established to…

via Marvel Studios Deepfakes are a dangerous thing, but there’s been a growing worry that we’re edging closer to the possibility of entire movies being created by actors who died a long time ago, with digital recreations stepping in to take pride of place right in the middle of the uncanny valley. Having spent his entire life in the business, Michael Douglas has been a savvy operator for decades, so he’s already preparing to get ahead of the curve. Of course, the Marvel Cinematic Universe stalwart has been…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJonathan Majors has commented on Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’s disappointing critical reception.Majors stars as the villain, Kang the Conqueror, in the Paul Rudd-starring Marvel franchise’s third instalment.Since its 17 February release, Quantumania’s dismal reviews have made it Rotten Tomatoes’ lowest-scoring sequel in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).It currently stands at…

Image via Marvel Studios What a silly little hole that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has dug itself into; with the logistical and physical nonsense brought into the fold by the likes of the Quantum Realm, multiverse, Sacred Timeline, and countless other comic book nuances, Marvel’s writing teams can get away with just about anything. It’s a blessing and a curse, of course; the free pass certainly won’t work on every audience member, and it will do no favor to anyone looking to exercise their writing muscles, but…