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My gut tells me that Disney higher execs and the boards made the decision a long time ago when Chapek claimed they "don't need China market", not to mention the media also reported that somehow Zaslav managed to meet Feige in order to lure him to DC. I guess even Zaslav knew Chapek is no better than him and Disney has to face a lot of unnecessary drama thanks to Chapek's decisions

Indeed, I love the rawness of the fights in this film, the fight scene on the bridge is my favorite, I could easily feel the brutalness of it when I first watched it at the theatre, I was afraid that Attuma would kill Okoye at any moment. The last time I saw this kind of fighting was probably ...Winter Soldier. Arguably they can't have a big battle because there aren't many soldiers left, the other tribes didn't want to join, M'baku was forced to do it so he quickly gathered some, Nakia was just there to protect the last living member of her late husband's in-law family. And I don't think Shuri would expect the remaining soldiers and the midnight angels got beaten by Talokani that fast tho.

To be fair, I think the most important thing that helped the Marvel franchise succeed is the very fact that they already lost their A-list properties (Spiderman, Xmen, Fantastic Four) to other studios, which is why they had to work from the ground and created the kind of characters that modern audience wanted to see and could easily connect with. I bet that Marvel would be drunk on their high horse and make the same mistakes as DC/WB if they had their "A-list champions" at first.

Agree, I think Gunn's tweets about that subject are a very nice and polite way to say "move on", what true DC fans (not including that *guy* fans, I don't expect that from them) need is to appreciate and support the future of the franchise and the upcoming projects, not to mourn for the rest of their lives. That infamous twitter movement really set a bad example, it's like a bogeyman that haunted the DC franchise

Well, in the past weeks I already saw some Redditors make some jokes that it would be hilarious af if The Rock counts on China market to save Black Adam, only for China to give him the middle finger and releases Marvel films instead

Disney will make a clear statement, and I doubt that those who said "Disney won't do it" would care or know that. Similar to how Simu tried to damage control on Weibo by declaring that he's Chinese nevertheless and will always remember and support his homeland yada yada, I doubt that even his loyal Westerner followers on Twitter knew he did it, otherwise they would unfollow him already. Both Jujutsu Kaisen and MoM are dead cases but hopefully, Thor 4 and other Marvel films won't get affected.

Aye, I guess it's done then.

Oh dear, this sounds hopeful, does this mean Disney can resolve this by sending an edited version where they can delete all these cult name/logo etc. It's just an object, I think they can even delete that street sign out of existence.

Please keep updating the real news from Weibo/China @Issac Newton @Bruce @Olive I think they will make a statement too. If a gigantic brand such as Nike can do it then Marvel has no point in not doing it. Ego won't give people food and money after all.

Lmao I hope Disney makes a statement about this, it's just a coincidence, they filmed that scene on the real street of New York, and there is just a lot of ... garbage on the street, you know, and it's not like all of them speak/understand Chinese, to begin with. They might think it was just random Chinese texts that were written by some random American Chinese. Disney gave zero F about the Tibets, why would they care about some random cult?

It's a bait tweet, they butchered the video to fit their preference because they want to villainize Marvel/Feige's work style as usual. In the interview with fandango, Raimi said he wants to come back to work for Marvel again after this, If he isn't happy he wouldn't say that.

The problem with TLJ vs. Jumanji was TLJ absolutely pissed off SW fans, which killed off its box office multiplier. I don't think Cameron would fail. Shazamily deserves better treatment from WB

Just saw this on weibo, damn this is beautiful, Chinese Marvel fans are celebrating Endgame anniversary, whatever happen they still support Marvel nevertheless. Whoever said Disney should abandon China market and Marvel Chinese fans are freaking crazy. https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=I love you three thousand&topic_ad=

Yeah, I've read similar things on Weibo, some even said the local bureau knew DC films won't make much anw even in the normal time so they just allow them to release there. And especially with the real Avatar coming, the cheap copy of Avatar's design concepts (aka. Aquaman) won't make much of a difference for DC overall. But tbh I think China and Marvel will eventually reconcile anw, similar to how China banned Avatar in its first run but they resolved their relationship later on.

It got banned in Egypt too. Don't know the exact reason.

Let's be realistic, it's likely that Disney had no other choice, they just simply couldn't because Chavez is a major character, they did cut some irrelevant gay scenes in Eternal for certain anti-LGBTQ countries.

According to that article, it's still got released in UAE the third-richest country in the world. Anw I think Disney will deal with it and release a cut version their for them. By cutting I mean they might erase the pin flag on Chavez's shirt or whatever.

It's such an irony that Marvel eff themselves by hiring Liu/Zhao, it was supposed to be an act of attempting to pander to the mainland

No, but a lot of people are complaining so I guess they really expected Disney to let Bale wear a thong

That is a drastic change for Gorr, he used to wear a black thong and a black hood in the comic.

I guess the best way to boost the next Oscar's ratings is to let Will Smith hug Chris Rock

🥴Ironically, Smith's case reminds me of these two in Encanto, I think some couples are just that weird, the husband put his wife's feelings above all else and he will react negatively after he sees his wife's reaction. I think Disney didn't over exaggerate about this.

Ironically, I saw plenty of Snyder fans on twitter said Marvel fans would spam the hell out of it to let NWH win and #Oscarfansfavorite is Oscar's comforting letter to Disney, wonder what they're thinking now

I think Disney will be happy with it as long as the relationship is improving and they reconcile with China moving forward, when comes to those franchises there is a lot of baggage with it, for example, fandom culture, merchandise, Disney park attractions, whatever it is that helps the brand awareness and benefits Marvel/Disney. There is a fun fact that even tho China pretty much limited the access of Hallyu to China's market, Korean idols' Chinese fan clubs are still holding the top 1 spot of donating for their favorite ones and buying the merch their idols are selling, Hollywood is not the only one that desires China market.

Well, at least we can use covid to save face for an underperforming box office run because it's an undeniable and acceptable reason, if Aquaman TLK fails we can simply blame covid too, (and also Amber Heard to some extent lmao)