by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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NEWS:
KANG - From THR: Marvel Studios has dropped actor Jonathan Majors from its roster of stars after the actor was convicted by a New York City jury of reckless assault in the third degree and also of harassment. Majors had played "Kang the Conqueror" in two seasons of the Disney+ series, "Loki," and in the movie, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
BLACK PANTHER - From ComicBook: Disney+ has announced a new animated series, "Eyes of Wakanda," set in the world of his film, Black Panther. It is scheduled to debut sometime in 2024.
THOR - From Variety: Oscar-winner Taika Waititi said that he had not interest in directing "Thor: Ragnarok," but did so because he was poor and had a second child to feed.
AVENGERS - From Deadline: According to the site, Michael Waldron, who created the Disney+ "Loki" series and served as its showrunner for Season 1, has been tapped to write the upcoming film, "Avengers: The Kang Dynasty." Waldron is already penning the sequel, '"Avengers: Secret Wars."
FANTASTIC FOUR - From Deadline: Word is that actor Pedro Pascal will portray Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic in Marvel Studios' planned "Fantastic Four" film.
AVENGERS - From Deadline: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director, Destin Daniel Cretton, is stepping away from the directors chair of "Avengers: The Kang Chronicles." He will continue to oversee the Disney+/Marvel Studios series, "Wonder Man," and will also continue to develop a "Shang-Chi" sequel.
THOR 5 - From Variety: If there is really going to be a "Thor 5," Taika Waititi, who directed the previous two "Thor" films (Thor: Ragnarok and Thor: Love and Thunder), says that he won't be the film's director. He says he is working on other non-Marvel films and is still developing his "Star Wars" films.
THE MARVELS - From BoxOfficePro: "The Marvels" tops the 11/10 to 11/12/2023 weekend box office.
From Here: A review of "The Marvels" by Leroy Douresseaux.
RELEASE DATES - From Deadline: Disney is changing the release dates for Marvel Studios films again. "Deadpool 3" moves to July 26, 2024. "Captain America: Brave New World" moves to February 14, 2025. "Blade" is not scheduled for November 7, 2025.
BLADE - From Deadline: In an interview about his short film, "Dammi," director Yann Demange says that his Marvel Studios' film, "Blade" (starring Mahershala Ali) will be rated "R."
OBIT - From Variety: Movie stuntman, Taraja Ramsess, has died at the age of 41, Tuesday, October 31, 2023. Ramsess and two of his daughters were killed in a car crash on Halloween night. Among his 94 screen credits was stunt work on Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and Black Panther.
FRANCHISE - From Variety: Crisis at Marvel Studios? Inside the Jonathan Majors/"Kang" scandal and other things exciting the gossipy press.
DAREDEVIL BORN AGAIN - From THR: Screenwriter Dario Scardapane will be the showrunner for Disney+.Marvel Studios' "Daredevil: Born Again." Scardapane will write the remainder of the episodes that will comprise Season One of the series, as well as commit any other writing. "Loki" Season 2 helmers, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead, will direct the remaining episodes.
From THR: Marvel Studios is "retooling" its Disney+ series, "Daredevil: Born Again." It is looking for new directors and writers after firing the current staff.
X-MEN - From Deadline: In an exclusive story, "Deadline" is reporting that Marvel Studios will start meeting with writers later this Fall 2023 to hear pitches for the X-Men movie.
DAREDEVIL BORN AGAIN - From Variety: Steven DeKnight, the showrunner for the first season of Netflix/Marvel's "Daredevil" says that Disney is running a scam by renaming the series "Daredevil: Born Again." The scam is that Disney is slightly renaming the series to set contract terms back to the first season." Read to hear his explanation and complaints.
DISNEY+ - From Variety: Disney+ has shifted the release dates of some of its upcoming series due to the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Season 2 of "What If?..." has been delayed. "Echo" and the animated "X-Men '97" have been moved from Nov. 29th to Jan. 2024. The "WandaVision" spinoff, "Agatha," has been moved over year away to Fall 2024.
LABOR - From Variety: A super-majority of Marvel Studios' more than 50-worker visual effects (VFX) crew has voted to unionize, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) announced on Mon., Aug. 7th.
IRON MAN - From CBR: In an interview, "Oppenheimer" director Christopher Nolan calls the casting of Robert Downey, Jr. (who stars in "Oppenheimer") one of the greatest casting decisions ever made.
THE MARVELS - From EW: Marvel Studios' upcoming film, "The Marvels," is the "cover feature" at EW ("Entertainment Weekly), feature an exclusive behind-the-scenes look and new images from the film.
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY - From Deadline: "Guardians of the Galaxy 3" will make its Disney+ debut on August 2nd, 2023.
MS MARVEL - From CBR: The Disney+/Marvel Studios series, "Ms. Marvel," will be the first Marvel Studios series to make it to broadcast television. The series will debut on ABC, Saturday, August 5th, 2023 with three episodes, and the remaining three will debut the following week, Sat. August 12th.
DEADPOOL - From THR: The site is reporting that Jennifer Garner will once again play the role of anti-hero and Marvel Comics assassin, "Elektra," in the upcoming Marvel Studios' film, "Deadpool 3." Garner originally played the role in 20th Century Fox's "Daredevil" (2003) and "Elektra" (2005).
SECRET INVASION - From Polygon: The opening credits scenes for the new Marvel Studios' Disney+ series, "Secret Invasion," used art generated by an artificial intelligence. Yes, AI art is here to stay, but Marvel's move has generated some ill will.
HULK - From Deadline: The rights issues have cleared. The second film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), 2008's "The Incredible Hulk," is now streaming on Disney+.
CAPTAIN AMERICA 4 - From Variety: "Captain America: New World Order" is now "Captain America: Brave New World." Plus, the film has dropped a first-look photo of Harrison Ford and Anthony Mackie ("Captain America") sharing a laugh on the set of the film.
THOR - From Deadline: Irish actor Ray Stevenson, has died at the age of 58, May 22, 2023. He played the character "Volstagg," in Marvel Studios' "Thor" (2011), "Thor: The Dark World" (2013), and "Thor: Ragnarok" (2017). He also played "Frank Castle/The Punisher" in Lionsgate's 2008 Marvel Comics' film, "Punisher: War Zone."
DEADPOOL 3 - From Deadline: Actresses Brianna Hildebrand will return as the character "Negasonic Teenage Warhead" and Shioli Kutsuna will return as Negasonic's girlfriend, Yukio, in Marvel Studios' "Deadpool 3."
LOKI - From Deadline: Marvel Studios' Disney+ series, Loki Season 2, will arrive October 6th. New episodes will arrive weekly.
ECHO - From Deadline: Every episode of Marvel Studios' Disney+ series, "Echo," will drop on November 29th. The series focuses on "Maya Lopez," a deaf Native American superhero.
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY - From Variety: "Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3" opens with a domestic box office gross estimated at 114 million dollars. It added 168 million dollars in 52 international markets for an estimated worldwide total of 282 million dollars.
From GamesRadar: Vin Diesel breaks his silence on his character, Groot's final line in the film. The reason why we (the audience) and new Gamorra could understand that line is that after spending so much time alongside Groot, we can understand him.
From THR: This is an article about, among other things, how Chris Pratt and his "Guardians of the Galaxy" rescued their director James Gunn after his (unjust) firing by Disney.
From Deadline: "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" does 14 million dollars in Thursday night's preview shows.
From The AVClub: What does "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" mean for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
DAREDEVIL - From CBR: Actor Vincent D'Onofrio says that the Disney+/Marvel Studios series, "Daredevil: Born Again," will not be like Netflix's "Daredevil" series. He says that all he can say is "we are not bored."
VICTORIA ALONSO - From Deadline: Disney has settled with former Marvel Studios VFX chief Victoria Alonso after abruptly firing her in March. The terms are confidential, but the settlement is said to be a multimillion dollar compensation package.
JEREMY RENNER - From People: Actor Jeremy Renner said that during his recovery from serious injuries he sustained due to a Jan 1st snowplow accident, fellow actor Anthony Mackie was at his bedside. Renner and Mackie both starred in the Oscar-winning "The Hurt Locker" (2009) and both are among the Marvel Cinematic Universes biggest stars.
ANT-MAN - From Forbes: Disney reveals that its spent 193.2 million dollars on pre-production and filming of "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania."
CAPTAIN AMERICA - From THR: Liv Tyler, who played "Betty Ross" in Universal Pictures and Marvel Studios' "The Incredible Hulk" (2008), will return as the character in "Captain America: New World Order." Anthony Mackie will headline the film as Sam Wilson/Captain America.
From TheAVClub: Actor Carl Lumbly, who played the super-soldier, "Isaiah Bradley" in the Disney+ series "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" will reprise the role in "Captain America 4," which is currently titled "Captain America: New World Order."
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY - From Deadline: Director James Gunn talks about the runtime of "Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3" (about two and a half hours) and says that not a second of the film is wasted.
EXECUTIVE SUITE - From THR: Victoria Alonso, the president of physical and postproduction, visual effects and animation production at Marvel Studios, has reportedly left the company.
IRONHEART - From GameRant: Iconic voice performer, Cree Summer, who has performed voice roles in numerous animated films and television series, has joined the Disney+/Marvel Studios' series, "Ironheart," in an undisclosed role.
WOLVERINE - From Variety: Hugh Jackman is bulking up to play "Wolverine" again, this time, in the upcoming "Deadpool 3." He is eating 8000 calories a day.
DAREDEVIL - From THR: Actor John Bernthal will return to play Frank Castle/The Punisher in Disney+/Marvel Studios' "Daredevil: Born Again." Bernthal played the character in Season 2 of Marvel/Netflix's "Daredevil" and in his own series, "The Punisher," for two seasons (2017-19).
WAKANDA FOREVER - From Deadline: "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" topped the U.S. streaming charts the week of its debut, 1/30 to 2/5/2023, with 2.3 billion viewing minutes. That is also the third highest debut ever, behind Netflix "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery" and Disney+'s "Hocus Pocus 2."
ANT-MAN/WASP - From Variety: Actor Jonathan Majors, who played "Kang," and screenwriter Jeff Loveness confront the bad reviews that "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" in different ways.
From Deadline: "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" star Evangeline Lilly says she once turned down Hugh Jackman's request that she appear in an "X-Men" film."
THE MARVELS - From THR: "The Marvels" release date has been moved July 28th to Nov. 10th. Disney's "Haunted Mansion" will take the July 28th release date.
KEVIN FEIGE - From EW: Marvel Studios boss, Kevin Feige, gives a wide-ranging interview to "Entertainment Weekly" about Marvel's movies, including discussions on Phase 5, "Kang," and the future of the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe).
OSCARS - From Marvel: "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" has received 5 nominations at the 2023 / 95th Academy Awards. The nominations came in the following categories: "Best Supporting Actress," "Best Costume Design," "Best Original Song," "Best Visual Effects," and "Best Makeup and Hairstyling." The winners will be announced Sunday, March 12, 2023.
DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN - From Deadline: Nikki M. James has joined the cast of the Disney+/Marvel Studios series, "Daredevil: Born Again." Her role is unknown.
ANGELA BASSETT - From Variety: “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” star Angela Bassett made superhero cinema history on Tuesday as the first woman, the first person of color, and the first Marvel Studios actor to be nominated for an Academy Award for their performance in a comic book adaptation.
From Variety: With her "Best Supporting Actress" win for her performance in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" (as "Queen Ramonda") at the 80th Golden Globes, Angela Bassett becomes the first actor in a Marvel Studios film to win a major acting award. She was part of the cast that won "Best Ensemble" for "Black Panther" at the 2019 SAG Awards.
AGATHA - From Deadline: Kathryn Hahn, the star of the Disney+ "WandaVision" spinoff, "Agatha: Coven of Chaos," hints that there may a song or two in the new series. The series is apparently due this year.
BLACK PANTHER - From Deadline: "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" is among the ten nominees in the category of "Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures" at the 2023 / 34th Annual Producers Guild of America Awards. Winners will be announced Sat., Feb. 25th, 2023.
DON CHEADLE - From Variety: Oscar-nominated actor, Don Cheadle, says in an interview that Marvel Studios gave him two hours to decide if he wanted to join "Iron Man 2" and sign a six-movie contract with them. Cheadle would go on to play James "Rhodey" Rhodes/War Machine in six films.
WAKANDA FOREVER - From THR: "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" cinematographer, Durald Arkapaw, reflects on “one of the most beautiful endings”
TEASERS & TRAILERS:
From Deadline: This is second trailer for "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3," which made it debut during Super Bowl LVII (Feb. 12th). The film debuts May 5th, 2023.
From YouTube: This is the second trailer for "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania," which was released Jan. 9th. The film is due in theaters February 17, 2023.
From YouTube: This is the first trailer for "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania," which is due in theaters February 17, 2023.
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MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE (MCU):
Review: Iron Man (2008)
Review: The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Review: Iron Man 2 (2010)
Review: Thor (2011)
Review: Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Review: Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
Review: Iron Man 3 (2013)
Review: Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Review: Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Review: Ant-Man (2015)
Review: Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Review: Doctor Strange (2016)
Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Review: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Review: Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Review: Black Panther (2018)
Review: Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Review: Captain Marvel (2019)
Review: Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Review: Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
Review: Black Widow (2021)
Review: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
Review: Eternals (2021)
Review: Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Review: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Review: Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
Review: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Review: Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 (2023)
Review: The Marvels (2023)
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