Nia DaCosta is a solid filmmaker with a strong vision for her work, but even she couldn’t handle the Marvel Studios machine. Now, a few years after the release of The Marvels, the filmmaker has addressed what happened. While speaking at Dublin’s second annual screenwriting festival, Storyhouse Ireland, The Playlist shared DaCosta’s feelings on the fallout […]
Has the Mainstream Audience Outgrown Comic Book Movies?
Has the mainstream audience outgrown comic book movies? We ponder whether comic book movies have enough audience to warrant such big budgets now… Remember a time when short of being one of the big two of Batman or Superman, comic book adaptations were seen as a sure-fire money pit? We saw failed Punisher, Phantom, Shadow […]
The Most Overhated Modern Superhero Movies
EJ Moreno looks at a selection of unfairly maligned superhero movies… Nowadays, all we hear is “superhero fatigue,” with audiences and critics growing tired of the genre. As cinema has been dominated by DC and Marvel for decades now, it seems like almost every superhero movie is met with a blah reaction. But that wasn’t […]
The Marvels 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and Digital release details and special features revealed
Marvel Studios has announced that Nia DaCosta’s superhero team-up movie The Marvels will arrive on digital on January 16th, followed by a 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD release on February 13th; check out the cover artwork, bonus feature details and trailer below… Higher. Further. Faster. Together! Captain Marvel, Monica Rambeau and Ms. Marvel […]
Kelsey Grammer talks Beast return and teases future MCU appearances
It’s almost five years now since Disney completed its takeover of 20th Century Fox, and we’re only just starting to see the mutants of the X-Men franchise make their mark on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Things will obviously ramp up a gear next year as Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine (along with a […]
Songbirds and Snakes takes box office top spot as The Marvels suffers huge drop
It was a tale of tired IP at the box-office this weekend, with the odds favouring The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which opened at the lower end of expectations with $44 million, while the already catastrophic performance of The Marvels took another headline making hit with a huge second-weekend drop of […]
The Marvels opens to an MCU record low weekend at the box office
There has been a lot of noise surrounding the whys and wherefores of the projected opening weekend gross for Nia DaCosta’s The Marvels, but now that the estimates are starting to be reported by box-office analysts, the superhero blockbuster is expected to land with a Marvel Studios low of between $47-$52 million. Be it superhero […]
Movie Review – The Marvels (2023)
The Marvels, 2023. Directed by Nia DaCosta. Starring Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Zawe Ashton, Park Seo-jun, Samuel L. Jackson, Mohan Kapur, Zenobia Shroff, Saagar Shaikh, Daniel Ings, Gary Lewis, Leila Farzad, Abraham Popoola, Tessa Thompson. SYNOPSIS: Carol Danvers gets her powers entangled with those of Kamala Khan and Monica Rambeau, forcing them to […]
Final trailer for The Marvels teases ‘One Last Fight’ for Carol Danvers
Ahead of its release this Friday, and with presales reportedly trailing those of Black Adam and The Flash, Marvel Studios has given The Marvels one last push by dropping a final trailer for the Nia DaCosta-directed superhero-sequel. The Marvels stars Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Zawe Ashton, Gary Lewis, Park Seo-joon, Zenobia Shroff, Mohan […]
The Marvels ticket presales trailing Black Adam and The Flash
Given the billion dollar success of Captain Marvel and Kevin Feige’s past comments likening the sequel to The Avengers in terms of its team-up appeal, it seems pretty safe to assume that the accountants at Disney and Marvel Studios had high hopes for The Marvels and its box office prospects when it was initially set […]
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