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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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.
Continue reading In which I underestimated a MCU movie’s opening weekend. Again.My mini-review of Captain Marvel.
Short version: it was fine. Not Winter Soldier fine, but I wasn’t expecting that. I expected popcorn movie, and I got popcorn movie.
Continue reading My mini-review of Captain Marvel.Some of the MCU stuff going up on Disney+.
There’s a theme. Can you figure out what it is? Mild spoilers after the fold.
Continue reading Some of the MCU stuff going up on Disney+.Sources say [Loki] will follow Loki as the trickster and shapeshifter pops up throughout human history as unlikely influencer on historical events.
Marvel had no comment.
Marvel is working on several series that will debut on Disney+. Other known series are The Vision and Scarlet Witch, being run by Captain Marvel writer Jac Schaeffer, while another will focus on a a team-up of Falcon and Winter Soldier, the heroes played by Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan, respectively. Malcolm Spellman (Empire) has been hired to write the latter effort.
Via GeekTyrant.
The Captain Marvel official website.
Sweet God in Heaven, but the Captain Marvel official website. I refuse to spoil it for you. I merely note that it is, well, perfect. And heartening, because I’ve noticed that when the MCU gets the little things right, it’s often accompanied by them getting the big things right, too. Will this be one of those times? Well, they’ve done it before.
A lot.
Via Facebook.
Tweet of the Day, Avengers: Endgame Should Absolutely Have A Pee Break edition.
New Avengers: Endgame Super Bowl spot drops.
Time to analyze it to a fare-thee-well!
Continue reading New Avengers: Endgame Super Bowl spot drops.Doctor Strange 2, Black Panther 2 proceeding apace.
Shocking, no? They’ve got a director for Doctor Strange 2 (C. Robert Cargill) and dropping heavy hints that they figured out a way for Killmonger to show up for Black Panther 2. Before anybody freaks out about that, here’s SyFy’s observation:
Continue reading Doctor Strange 2, Black Panther 2 proceeding apace.Doctor Doom movie dead. At Fox.
At least, that’s the word: “…Fox has been developing films for Gambit, X-Force, and Doctor Doom for quite awhile, but according to a recent report… those movies are all dead thanks to the upcoming Fox and Disney merger.” ‘Recent report’ being a tweet, but OK. It’s 2019, that’s how this stuff goes now. Continue reading Doctor Doom movie dead. At Fox.
The ‘Huh. I missed this Captain Marvel trailer’ trailer.
This is actually all right. Cocky, powerful, foreshadowing that she’s going to overreach and then have to learn some humility; they’re more or less ripping off Thor here, but that’s OK. The real worry for me, honestly, was that they’d Mary-Sue Captain Marvel right from the start and then things would get tedious in Endgame. If they’re going to instead use this movie to make her get her head on a swivel then that’ll do. Continue reading The ‘Huh. I missed this Captain Marvel trailer’ trailer.