Happenstance Posted July 26 Posted July 26 Really wish the big comic cons were like Star Wars Celebration and could be held around the world. Id love to go to one of these big events and go to proper panels with announcements etc. Our comic cons used to be OK but its depressing looking at the guest lists for them lately, its nearly all influencers. 1
Julius Posted July 26 Author Posted July 26 (edited) 27 minutes ago, Happenstance said: This is by far the most convinced I've been a bout the upcoming Fantastic Four film thanks for sharing this! 13 minutes ago, Happenstance said: Really wish the big comic cons were like Star Wars Celebration and could be held around the world. Id love to go to one of these big events and go to proper panels with announcements etc. Our comic cons used to be OK but its depressing looking at the guest lists for them lately, its nearly all influencers. Yeah, totally agree. It's kind of nuts that the west coast of North America is where it all goes down really for big announcements on that front these days, between SDCC and even D23 – D23 not being a worldwide thing especially surprises me, seeing as it's held in the Star Wars Celebration off-years and Disney has their parks a bunch of other places, and also it pertains to so many things outside of just Marvel, like the new Disney and Pixar stuff, park plans, etc. & yeah, I know there's New York Comic Con, but if we go purely by announcements and hype, I don't think it comes close to being what SDCC obviously is Much as I didn't mind Birmingham Comic Con last year, I don't think it comes close to the hype or excitement that I felt last year at SWC. Which, I mean, makes sense for me individually, but even just in Europe so many of the major conventions here are held on the other side of the channel or lack that same focus, like Gamescom in Germany, Japan Expo Paris or the Angoulême International Comics Festival, and obviously Lucca Comics & Games in Italy – but none of them are really quite like the announcement-filled events that are SDCC, D23 and SWC. It's a real shame Edited July 26 by Julius
Hero-of-Time Posted July 27 Posted July 27 Amazing result, especially when you consider it's rated 15/R meaning it can't pull in younger audience numbers. 1
bob Posted July 27 Posted July 27 (edited) Just posting this music - the soundtrack to one of the best moments of the film. I damn near squealed with excitement. Such a badass entrance too. Edited July 27 by bob
Julius Posted July 27 Author Posted July 27 Just got back from watching this with some mates today, most fun I've had watching an MCU movie since probably No Way Home? Fell into one or two of the trappings I think comes with the territory of a multiverse story (I was constantly expecting another cameo), but yeah, made me laugh my ass off Hard to tell if this is the sign of things to come and the start of a turnaround, or if it's just a splendid one-off, but either way, it was a blast still chuckling at the Gossip Girl joke from the opening Also, banger soundtrack. 3 hours ago, Hero-of-Time said: Amazing result, especially when you consider it's rated 15/R meaning it can't pull in younger audience numbers. Even with the context of this being US-only, it's absolutely amazing – being projected for a $400m+ opening weekend worldwide and has the potential to surpass the first Avengers ($207m) for domestic opening weekend, and if it pulls those off, would put it down as being the 6th best worldwide opening for an MCU film (behind Endgame, Infinity War, No Way Home, Captain Marvel and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness) and 4th best domestic opening for an MCU film (behind only Endgame, No Way Home and Infinity War). Be great to see it pull that off! Really shows that there's a hunger for great and fun superhero films still and that the "decline" of the MCU is purely a question of quality and poor word of mouth – I'd only heard great things about DP&W heading into it. Really curious to see what it's legs are like, especially seeing as comedies aren't the best films to bring in repeat viewings The Odeon Luxe I went to was PACKED, easily the third most packed I've seen it since COVID (behind only No Way Home and, weirdly, Dune: Part Two) 2
Helmsly Posted July 28 Posted July 28 (edited) There was quite a lot Marvel announcements at SDCC last night, with the major reveal of the actor who will be playing Dr Doom: The next two Avengers movies are ‘AVENGERS DOOMSDAY’ - May 2026 and ‘AVENGERS: SECRET WARS’ - May 2027. Russo Brothers are returning to direct them. Title and date for the Fantastic Four movie. Begins production on Tuesday. Hits theaters July 25, 2025: Quote Fantastic Four: First Steps director Matt Shakman confirmed that the movie would be set in the 1960s with a retro-futurism vibe to it. "We’re not just doing the 60s, we’re doing retro future 60s… it’s part what you know from the 60s, but part what you’ve never seen before," Shakman said during the panel. "With the right heart and mind, you can do anything." Edited July 28 by Helmsly 2
Julius Posted July 28 Author Posted July 28 (edited) 57 minutes ago, Helmsly said: Quite a lot announced as SDCC for Marvel last night but the main thing is the reveal of the actor who will be playing Dr Doom: The next two Avengers movies are ‘AVENGERS DOOMSDAY’ - May 2026 and ‘AVENGERS: SECRET WARS’ - May 2027. Russo Brothers are returning to direct them. I was saying to my friends yesterday how Feige's star ceremony was weird in that it potentially spoiled some of the cameos for DP&W, and I was shocked at how few of the main Avengers were there. Well, I guess this explains why they wouldn't have had RDJ there – did everything they could to have kept that under wraps real well, didn't they? LOL at that one guy correctly guessing RDJ though in the second clip What a pivot for the MCU, too. They needed someone to dig them out of the hole they'd been put in with the whole Majors/Kang situation and it seems so obvious a way to do it in retrospect, but I certainly didn't see anyone suggesting it – I figured they'd just do a variant Iron Man cameo (which I guess he could still do) in one of the Avengers films and leave it at that. But to keep the Tony Stark/Iron Man story well intact by having him play another character, and Doctor Doom no less? That's freaking awesome. The real question (and I say this not having read into it deeper, so maybe they've touched on it already): do we assume he's playing a Tony Stark variant? I feel like that would be infinitely more interesting and a great way to pull the main Avengers cast back in, too – not wanting Tony's name besmirched by, well, kind of himself? The Triple-Tap over the last week of the Russos returning for the next Avengers movies, Deadpool & Wolverine, and RDJ as Doctor Doom has me pretty freaking pumped for the future of the MCU now. We've still got to actually get there but, damn, you can't say Feige and co. haven't tried to call in all their favours to get this mess sorted. Got to imagine the package to get RDJ and the Russos back can't be cheap considering what they were getting paid by the end of Endgame, much less with the advantage of the MCU and Feige needing them. RDJ literally left the MCU, won an Oscar, and came back in the space of 5 years. Just let that sink in. Edited July 28 by Julius 1
Hero-of-Time Posted July 28 Posted July 28 Quote Disney's superhero sequel has collected $205 million in its opening weekend, ranking as the eighth-best debut of all time ahead of 2018's "Black Panther" ($202 million) and behind 2015's "Jurassic World" ($208 million) and 2012's "The Avengers" ($207 million). Only nine films in Hollywood history have crossed the $200 million milestone in their opening weekends. Ticket sales also easily surpassed 2016's "Deadpool" ($132 million) to set the record for the biggest R-rated opening weekend ever. The 2018 sequel, "Deadpool 2," now stands as the third-biggest R-rated debut with $125 million. Among the newest installment's many benchmarks, "Deadpool & Wolverine" landed by far the biggest start of the year, overtaking another Disney movie: the Pixar sequel "Inside Out 2" ($155 million debut). Internationally, "Deadpool & Wolverine" captured $233.3 million for a staggering global tally of $438 million. After three days of release, the film, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, is already the sixth-highest grossing of 2024. Disney spent about $200 million to produce and roughly another $100 million to promote the movie. Insane numbers. So deserved as well. 2
Julius Posted August 10 Author Posted August 10 (edited) Trailer for Agatha All Along: Two-episode premiere 18th September. Red Hulk for Brave New World got shown off properly for the first time, Laura Karpman (The Marvels) will be scoring. Daredevil: Born Again got a teaser trailer. Newton Bros. (X-Men 97) will be composing. Ironheart got a preview. Yelena has a new haircut in Thunderbolts & it looks greatttttt (also continuing Nat's tradition of new hair in new projects). We got a look at one of the new Fantastic Four members in costume (Quinn as Johnny), but more pressingly, we got to hear a sample of Michael Giacchino's work on the Fantastic Four score: Edited August 10 by Julius 1
Julius Posted August 11 Author Posted August 11 Deadpool and Wolverine has passed the $1 billion mark worldwide, only the second MCU film to do so post-Endgame, after No Way Home over 2½ years ago. Curious to see if any other film in the MCU picks up $1B+ at the box office before the next Avengers film, Doomsday, in 2026. Between now and then there's Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts*, Fantastic Four: The First Steps and Blade (though this one's definitely in something if a limbo at the moment). Hmm. 1
Happenstance Posted August 11 Posted August 11 Out of those I think Fantastic Four is the only one with a chance.
Julius Posted August 11 Author Posted August 11 20 minutes ago, Happenstance said: Out of those I think Fantastic Four is the only one with a chance. I'd agree that it's the only one with a chance, and even then I feel like it's going to need to be massively oversold as being an Avengers set-up and with RDJ's Doom centre stage in marketing to do so. Fantastic Four as a brand itself has taken an absolute beating over the last couple of decades between the 2000s' FF films and 2015's Fant4stic. It's a real shame because they were still massive when I was little (saw both of the 2000s FF films in cinema, had the Mega Bloks sets, not to mention a couple of shows and their appearance during Secret Wars in the 90s Spider-Man cartoon and also appearing in some of the 90s Spidey games), but they basically vanished over night when the MCU came in and Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy almost forced out campy nature of FF out (and comic book adaptations in general, on-screen at least). Outside of the promise of their return to the MCU and being a comic book fan, I struggle to think of how Fantastic Four would even reach the eyes and ears of the average kid these days. Reruns of shows over a decade and a half old? I genuinely think the best representation Fantastic Four has had for a kid born in, say, the late 2000s/early 2010s would be the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes games, which is incredibly sad to think about (even if they are great games). Marvel have seriously got their work cut out for them if Fantastic Four is going to cross that $1B threshold, imo. I'd love to see it, but it's going to take one hell of a marketing campaign, one hell of a bridge to Doomsday, and also just be one hell of a film to stand a chance in my eyes; I don't think "Marvel's first family" carries the same weight today as it once did for the layperson.
Happenstance Posted August 11 Posted August 11 I think what it'll have going for it is the decline of the MCU. People know the Fantastic Four and want something to revitalize the MCU. The Fox buyout is quite well known as well and I think has permiated into the general movie goer further than you would expect so people have been asking since Endgame when are we going to see the X-Men and Fantastic Four (FF to a lesser extent but I think the interest is still there. You'll also have comic fans hyping them up as the first family of Marvel. Those 2000s movies are still fondly remembered by a lot of people as just campy fun, with certain events keeping them in the public's mind. I think it's always going to be tough given the era of the MCU we are in and to be honest I do t think it will hit a billion but I think it still has a lot going for it.
Julius Posted August 16 Author Posted August 16 Deadpool & Wolverine is now officially the highest-grossing R-rated film of all-time. 2
Julius Posted August 23 Author Posted August 23 (edited) James Spader is returning to voice Ultron in Vision Quest! So here for this, dude's got a voice capable of silencing a crowd with a whisper Here's hoping for some Ultron California Edited August 23 by Julius 1
Julius Posted October 18 Author Posted October 18 (edited) Tom Holland was on the latest episode of the Rich Roll podcast, which I haven't tuned into in a good while, but reading and hearing not all that long ago about his struggles with alcohol - and just for someone of his age and stature in the public eye to do so, in a country in which I think a lot of young men (and women) have a very unhealthy and questionable relationship with alcohol - really got my attention and increased my respect for him massively (not that it was ever really low to begin with), and so getting the chance to listen to him talk in a longer form setting felt like something worth checking out. Anyways, relating this back to Marvel and this thread, there's been a lot going around lately about this apparent power struggle between Marvel, Sony and Tom over which direction Spider-Man should be taking now that he's returning from his break from acting, with Sony seemingly wanting to throw the character back into the mix with a massive scale project, whereas No Way Home obviously teased Spider-Man getting back to the foundation and smaller scale feel, which we haven't really seen with this incarnation of Spidey in the MCU. Tom spoke a bit about this and the powers and responsibility he has to the character, the fans and himself, and it sounds like they've made a lot of headway in terms of what they want to do - some choice clips from the podcast where he discusses this: Tobey will probably forever and always be my Spider-Man, being the one I grew up on alongside the animated series, but it's definitely exciting to hear that Tom is putting up a fight to make sure that what they do next with the character is what he wants to do and what he feels is important, rather than making the film for the sake of it. I think especially when so many of these MCU entries have started to feel like little more than fodder thrown out to eventually get us to the next big team-up, it gives me a lot more confidence to just hear someone that cares deeply enough to put his foot down and want to talk and be part of the creative process, because Spider-Man is, I think, such a relatable and important character for young people. But yeah, well worth watching those clips, and this is the podcast episode that it's from: Edited October 18 by Julius 1
bob Posted October 18 Posted October 18 Here's hoping he can squeeze in a visit to barber at some point too. That haircut is atrocious. 1
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