AnotherDayAnotherDollar

You forgot to include Wonder Man, Vision Quest and a few animated shows.

Sure. If that makes you sleep at better at night.

The Creator looked great and it was 80MM. What cost Marvel and Star Wars a lot of money is reshoot and actor/director premium pay. And probably cocaine and prostitutes for the execs.

That was actually a joke, but I wouldn't be surprised if "life lessons" included that. If they really are making all these changes you can thank Ali as he was about to walk out of the clownshow.

One thing they should do is get the budget under control. Every Marvel/Star Wars/Disney Live Action/WDAS/Pixar film is 200MM+. Meanwhile other studios have some animated gems with less than half the budget. I really don't know why the budget for these films are that high. 20th Century is the only one that has had a decent budget for their films sans Avatar and as you mentioned they either have been relegated to streaming fodder or their output has been subpar.

It was going to teach us about the dangers of the patriarchy.

Complaining or not it needs to be talked about. Marvel had a script where Blade was going to be about a group of women lecturing Eric and dude was going to be the fourth lead of his own movie. No wonder Ali was about to walk out.

Agree. Scrap a lot of this garbage. Hurry up to Secret Wars and reboot. Lessons learned from these past few years. The big about Blade and the TV side is telling. I wouldn't let Feige slide either. He is the one who greenlit the ending of WV and didn't want Strange there because "the white man telling the woman and blah blah", but in this case it made perfect sense to have him there.

Probably thinking they were untouchable and had the Midas touch no matter what they released.

The only thing that dude is reliable on is when trailers are dropping. Everything else he's just guessing.

Could this open lower than Morbius?

I only saw the one where Rogue puts Captain Marvel in a comma to roaring cheers from the crowd. I high fived someone and left the theater after that, so I may have missed the other one.

I don't think that's the reason it underperformed. I think the reason is the marketing was very misleading and the title was very misleading. I know I expected a full out Humans vs Apes war. And while I really enjoyed the movie it was definitely not what I expected. It also came out sandwiched between Homecoming and Dunkirk, which didn't help.

While I think it makes 2024 that RT tweet is just sourcing the Deadline article which just mentions that Disney has options to move the movie to July, November, December. We don't know what Disney's plans are. And Marvel wouldn't skip 2024 because BNO is coming out next year. Skipping a year wouldn't be a bad idea though. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

That's true. Thunderbolts is a bomba in the making. For comic aficionados like myself it's missing Norman Osborn and the gender swapped Fakemaster make the movie an automatic pass for me. They won't do it, but I say cancel it and get the write off. But then again I'm one of those who think Marvel Studios should cancel the majority of their announced projects given the current apathy towards them. Just hurry up to Secret Wars, reboot it and go back to what got you here in the first place.