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The new MARVEL STUDIOS’ SECRET INVASION trailer.

I still like the MCU Marvel shows, sorry. Especially when they’ve got the paranoia up to eleven. CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER remains my favorite MCU flick for that reason. So I expect that I’ll be watching SECRET INVASION when it comes out in June.

ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA has a selectively bad $120M opening.

Selectively because there’s a bunch of half-empty articles out there on the subject:

Director Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania certainly didn’t disappoint in its domestic box debut, with the film flying to a four-day opening of $120 million, one of the best showings ever for the Presidents Day holiday and by far the biggest start for Marvel’s low-key franchise.

Yet the third installment of the Paul Rudd-Evangeline Lilly series is still a cautionary win for Marvel Studios and Disney, which are at a critical juncture as Marvel kicks off Phase 5, and conquering hero Bob Iger returns as Walt Disney Co. CEO. With a 47 percent rating, the film is tied with Eternals (2021) for Marvel’s lowest Rotten Tomatoes score, and perhaps more telling, it earned a B CinemaScore from audiences, one of the few Marvel titles to do so.

My mini-review of ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA.

Short version: ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA is basically a parody of… the higher-stakes MCU movies. I do not mean this in a bad way.

The GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOLUME 3 Super Bowl trailer.

I suspect they’re all gonna go out in a blaze of glory. Get all ROGUE ONE up in this business. Because it’s already been made clear that there won’t be a GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOLUME 4.

The ‘Crud, are they taking this series seriously now?’ second ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA trailer.

I don’t know if I want them to take the ANT-MAN AND THE WASP series seriously. The series is at its best when it’s aware of just how goofy the premise is, and somebody gave them money to make it properly anyway. I get that it’s time for ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA to join the Kirby Era of the MCU, but still…

Marvel planning two more WEREWOLF BY NIGHT Halloween specials.

Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I like the idea. I enjoyed Marvel’s WEREWOLF BY NIGHT as a mashup of two old-school horror comic traditions, and if they want to do something equally creepy and/or gruesome… sure! That would be swell. They should start by taking a good, long look at EC Comics (while not actually admitting that they’re taking that look, mind you). There’s an aesthetic there that could be profitably developed.

Just… cut down on the CGI, all right? Let’s get some practical effects going, for a change.

The More Promising GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOLUME 3 trailer.

Although as it is, there’s a strong possibility that everybody in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOLUME 3 is gonna die. Then again: how long do these actors and actresses want to commit to eating nothing but steamed chicken, anyway? The MCU Diet must do a number on people.

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