James Gunn rehired for Guardians of the Galaxy 3.

Interesting.

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Marvel’s What-If? series would do much to justify Disney+.

Oh wow. Big, if true.

[Slashfilm has] exclusively learned that Marvel Studios will be producing a new television series for the Disney+ streaming service based on the popular What If comic book series. The new animated show will be overseen by Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios, but the stories will not be canon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 

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Disney-Fox acquisition date set for 3/20/2019.

March 20, 2019. That’s the day Disney takes possession of Fox. Which means that there’s still a faint, hopeless chance that they will go with my idea for the last Avengers: Endgame Easter egg:

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The ‘I do not buy the Premise’ Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trailer.

I’m having problems, here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgsliR2t7XI
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In which I underestimated a MCU movie’s opening weekend. Again.

I said $100-120 million domestic for Captain Marvel: it grossed $154 million domestic, and if it doesn’t beat my $600-800 million total prediction at this point I’d be shocked. That would require, say, everybody who wanted to go see the movie already seeing it last weekend, and that’s even more absurd than apparently my previous guess was. Certainly it’s no longer safe to bet that the movie won’t hit a billion.

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