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The truth most likely lies somewhere inbetween. Scheduling issues probably were major factors to both departures, but Marvel's recent woes may have influenced their views and led them to ultimately move on to greener pastures.

Yeah, this is a pretty bad omen for Marvel. And I have a feeling they won't be the last to jump ship. Who's to say that, for example, Pedro Pascal won't decide to drop out of Fantastic Four? Or what if Mahershala Ali decides he's had enough and leaves too?

As a foreigner, I'm going to assume the potency of football in American culture is why January and February are usually wastelands as far as movie releases are concerned. Every year I see Sunday numbers dropping like rocks because of these games.

A character like Danny Rand, a white man as a mystical martial arts master, just isn't going to fly in this day and age. The Loeb regime was already hit with cultural appropiation accusations during the Season 1 promotional campaign, so I don't blame Feige for not wanting to stoke those flames. Hopefully this new Iron Fist will indeed be Colleen Wing instead of a lame original character. Her actress is even of Chinese descent to boot! On another note, there have been a lot of conflicting hints from the scooperbro circle regarding Daredevil that surfaced today. Without getting into detail, I'll just say that not only might the creative reboot be exaggerated, but the final result might anger the fans more than if they'd gone ahead with their original plans.

I never thought I'd say this, but I'm with @SpiderByte on this one. This source explicitly states it's not a full rewrite, but rather slight alterations to Friedman's script. I wouldn't be surprised if he still gets a screenplay credit for the final film on top of the story credit he'll no doubt get. I don't blame you in the slightest for feeling the way you do after how much of a letdown Marvel's slate has been these past couple of years, but I'll hold off on worrying unless we start hearing some truly troubling news from the production. At least they've learned from what happened to their Daredevil sequel and are writing any potential issues out before cameras roll. That has to count for something.

Filming being pushed to this summer already cemented that outcome for me. At least now we know why that happened. This and Blade are likely being pushed back to 2026 at this point, with Captain America 4 taking this movie's May spot while Thunderbolts heads to that November.

That sounds more like Apple and Universal know they're sitting on a dud and are trying to slow down the inevitably bad word of mouth as much as they can. I don't buy that "spoiler" excuse in the slightest. This isn't a Marvel movie.

Pullman can pull off the unassuming softie look that they were no doubt going for with Yeun, no doubt as a contrast to the bloodthirsty beast Sentry is supposed to become, probably in the third act.

They seemingly remember what happened to Fox and decided to slow down their film output for a while until a clearer picture emerged. Luckily for them the lesser of two evils, Skydance, will likely take them instead of Zaslav, so they'll probably ramp their output back up in the months to come now that another Disney-Fox meltdown has been avoided.

95% of these Marvel movies tend to be PG-13, so that's what it'll most likely get.

That suit looks like it was made by AI. I can't believe this pile of garbage is the last movie out during my winter break.

Don't forget the epilogue where he tried to sneak back in through an alternative account named CREED B JORDAN or something like that in, I think, around March of last year. The moderators would find out and kick him back out shortly afterwards though. I wonder how they connected the dots, because I don't remember any posts from said account.

Colour Purple's steep decline might have them second guessing this one methinks.

It's seemingly the latter, as Disney's official release schedule refers to it as "Untitled Deadpool Movie", or something like that. Eerily similar to how Fox didn't give out a final title for Deadpool 2 for the longest of time.

I get where you're coming from, but this movie has a fantastic selling point in Ryan Reynolds's Deadpool finally meeting Hugh Jackman's iconic Wolverine, two characters who are institutions of their own, who can thrive even when the larger Marvel universe is in decay. Just look at how the standalone Batman and Joker movies, which are based on similarly huge characters, performed compared to the mainline DC movies of the past 5 years. That factor will help it greatly. As long as the movie lives up to the first two Deadpool adventures, it has a decent shot at being Disney's first billion dollar Marvel movie since Endgame back in 2019.

It's a Sunday in a mostly American community, and on a slow weekend without anything new to talk about. Naturally there will be a ton of football/baseball/sports talk us foreigners won't get. You get used to it after a while.

I'm referring to that being distributed by Sony, while the rest of the lineup is distributed by Disney. In that sense, the last billion dollar Marvel movie released by Disney was Endgame back in 2019.

They won't be able to unless they get the directors and writers responsible for all the best moments. This new series should do its own thing, and be a great Daredevil adaptation all on its own, which it can be with the right talent without needing to live up to the behemoth that is the Netflix series.

This was a movie that Marvel had no idea what to do with, and tried reshooting and recutting to hell and back until they eventually just gave up on it. As I've said elsewhere, if they truly had faith then this would be out this year, not last year during the strike.

King of the Monsters is one of the biggest dual edged swords on film to date. On one hand, the monster scenes are spectacular, with each of them having distinct and memorable personalities that shine through in their designs, facial expressions and movements. Dougherty understood the importance of that, and that's why they're the best parts of the movie. Unfortunately, the actual story surrounding them is pretentious drivel full of unlikable and/or insufferable clowns. One of them is even basically Rick Sanchez, a guy who shouldn't be anywhere near a movie that wants to take itself seriously and be a deep statement on climate change and the like. For all its faults, the 2014 reboot was not all that bad, just dull whenever Goji wasn't around after Heisenberg bites it. There's a reason why Wingard is the only one who returned for a second helping, because he focused on what this franchise does best: awe, spectacle and exploration. That's what works about Skull Island, Godzilla vs Kong and the best episodes of Monarch. I went out of his movie far happier than Dougherty's, and am very pleased to see him back at the helm for another one. Hopefully he delivers again!

No wonder why Marvel's solely focusing on this one for the year. It's their biggest surefire hit in ages. Two huge characters who can stand on their own even when the larger Marvel brand is on the brink finally meet, and the latter is bringing his iconic suit with him for the first time ever in live action, complete with the actors who made them household names bringing them to life once more and the same writers who made the first two Deadpool movies hit the zeitgeist returning as well. If this one is even remotely good I can actually see it reach the billion dollar mark, which would be the first time a pure Marvel movie gets there in half a decade. The only question now is whether this or Jonkler 2 is going to be the biggest movie of the year.

A lot of movies coming out around that time suffered the same fate, thanks to the crushing weight of Disney at its peak. They always had something to choke the competition to death every month, be it Captain Marvel, Endgame, Aladdin, Toy Story 4 and Lion King. Most non-Disney movies like Godzilla 2, Detective Pikachu, Men in Black International and Pets 2 among others either underperformed or bombed. We're definitely never seeing that level of pop culture domination again, as evidenced by that very behemoth now being anything but.

It sounds like neither this nor Fantastic Four are going to make it to next year, with filming for that one being pushed back late into this year and this one struggling to fill in a major villain role. Blade is also a major question mark as we haven't heard anything major on that in a while. I'm thinking both Fantastic Four and Thunderbolts get pushed back to 2026 while Joss2ce League Captain America 4 heads to May of next year. Blade can go either way, but the recent reports about it having a modest sub-$100M budget tell me it won't need anywhere near as much postproduction work as your average Marvel tentpole, so as long as cameras get rolling on that this year they can get it done for that November 2025 slot still.

A movie like this not even reaching half a million on Marting Luther King's birthday is just depressing. I just feel bad for everyone involved especially after hearing about all the production issues.

With the series not having much of a pulse whenever Godzilla isn't on screen I'm not sure if we'll get another season. If we do, I'm still hoping for a creative refresh, or at least to have Fraction and/or Black writing the entire series. I want a more consistently great story next time, one which doesn't have a lot of the issues the first two Godzilla movies had. I also want a stronger creature lineup and maybe some more Toho characters, but if they insist on this being an interquel they are really boxing themselves in.