MCUs

After the surprising success of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom over The Marvels, Marvel is likely glad that there won’t be any more competition from DC until July 2025, when the new DCU launches with Superman: Legacy. Unfortunately, the MCU movie that’s going head-to-head with it has just hit a major Jonathan Majors-style setback. Elsewhere, the incoming Echo might be somewhat sailing under the radar, but at least it’s forced Marvel to admit something we’ve been dying to hear for a full decade now. Basically, Daredevil…

After its 2023 was subsumed by the shadow of Jonathan Majors and his legal drama, Marvel Studios likely hoped to keep any casting woes away from the spotlight heading into 2024. Unfortunately, just days into the year, the MCU has been hit once again by a shock exit from a major A-list actor. Thanks to the actors and writers’ strikes, Marvel’s 2024 release slate is a lot sparser than planned, with July’s Deadpool 3 the only movie from the studio coming out over the next 12 months. One of several films delayed into 2025…

In the wake of Jonathan Majors' firing, it seems that Marvel Studios is reassessing the relevance of Kang and his variants in the MCU's future. The most telling move the studio has made is the removal of the "Avengers: The Kang Dynasty" title from the next "Avengers" movie. At the time of this writing, it is being referred to simply as "Avengers 5," which indicates that Kang may not continue to be built up as the main threat of the Multiverse Saga. If this is the case, the odds of seeing a comic-accurate…

Jonathan Majors, known for his role as the antagonist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s upcoming movie ‘Kang: The Conqueror,’ has been charged with assault and harassment against his former girlfriend, British choreographer Grace Jabbari. A jury consisting of six members from New York City found Majors guilty on assault and harassment charges. According to reports from Variety, the actor could potentially face up to a year in jail. Following the revelation of these charges, Marvel Studios swiftly…

The MCU is on shaky footing these days, but thankfully Marvel has one of its most beloved properties on the way to help the franchise rise up from its doldrums like, well, a phoenix: the X-Men. Following Kelsey Grammer’s Beast turning up in The Marvels, the coming of the Children of the Atom is set to really heat up from now on. Next May’s Deadpool 3 will bring back a whole host of familiar faces from the original Fox universe, as led by Ryan Reynolds’ Wade Wilson and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. But, don’t forget, before…

Goodbye, The Marvels, we hardly knew you. Well, we hardly saw you, going by the excruciatingly low box office figures for the Brie Larson sequel which is disappearing from theaters as we speak. Elsewhere, in the Marvel multiverse, the Golden Globes nominations reveal a surprise inclusion, one that might mean good things for the MCU in the short-term but will probably only benefit fierce rivals, DC, in the long. Somewhere, in Warner Bros. Land (which I’m imagining looks like it does in Space Jam), James Gunn is rubbing…

The Marvels, Nia DaCosta's tentpole superhero movie starring Brie Larson, is on the verge of concluding its global box office run. As per Variety, the film has turned out to be the lowest grossing movie under the Marvel Cinematic Universe ever. (Also Read: The Marvels review: Brie Larson leads a quick, disconcerting film of girls, cats, and crossovers) Brie Larson unites with Iman Vellani and Teyonah Parris in The Marvels The Marvels finishes lowestSo far, The Marvels has garnered only $80 million in North…

Avengers: The Kang Dynasty is practically Schrodinger’s Marvel movie at this point. It’s lost its director (Shang-Chi‘s Destin Daniel Cretton), its original writer (Quantumania‘s Jeff Loveness), and it could well ditch its titular character too. So does it still exist or doesn’t it? Apparently, it does, according to the latest development on the Avengers 5 front, one which seems to be delivering exactly what the fandom have been wanting on one hand, and doing the exact opposite on the other. Avengers: The Kang Dynasty…

Taika Waititi seems to have completed his transformation from Marvel poster boy to pariah with his admission that he had “no interest” in making Thor movies and only agreed to do Ragnarok and Love and Thunder because he was “poor.” While that’s somewhat surprising to hear about Ragnarok, as the director managed to infuse his first MCU movie with fun and verve, the fact he only did the disappointing Love and Thunder for the paycheck isn’t as shocking. Despite all the hype surrounding it, the 2022 summer blockbuster…

At this point The Marvels‘ ability to, if you want to corrupt Captain Marvel’s own catchphrase, sink lower, further, faster than any other MCU movie is almost impressive. After the weakest opening weekend of any of Marvel Studios’ release over the past 15 years, the Brie Larson sequel then lost a full 79% of its already poor audience numbers by its second weekend. Coming off the back of its third weekend, things have somehow gotten even worse. With estimates stating The Marvels brought home a mere $7.9 million…