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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
It is essentially the same problem Whedon mentioned when talking about the movies: a company isn't gonna let a popular hero stay dead when there is still money they could milk out of them.
Interestingly, George Miller's Justice League (which would've come out at the same time as The Dark Knight saga, but would've been set in its own universe) ended with the death of the Flash, which I thought was a very bold move, especially for what was supposed to be a first movie.
It's different for the MCU though, simply because actors age out of their roles eventually. The MCU has actually pretty wasteful with their characters. In a comic book, they wouldn't kill villains left and right, because the hero needs a villain and it is a waste of time to be forced to establish a new one again and again and again.
Btw...major spoilers for Ao S but we have our first wedding in the MCU!
Yeah for the 100th episode....not bad for a TV show. Not bad at all. only few reach that milestone. Though, I did the math, and unless I made a mistake, the Netflix verse together has now exactly 99 episodes. (26 for Daredevil and Jessica jones makes 52 episodes, plus 13 episode for Luke Cage, Iron Fist and The Punisher makes additional 39, meaning 91 altogether plus the 8 Defender episodes).
edited 10th Mar '18 1:16:45 AM by Swanpride
There is a roundtable for the 100 episodes...well, there are a number of special vids they did, but that one is especially interesting because they discuss how various scenes were shot.
Behind the scene shots from Captain Marvel has everyone wondering...
(Spoiler-tagged in case it turns out to be true.)
Is Nick Fury really a Skrull?
Count me in on hoping the latter doesn't happen. Realizing the guy who jump-started the Avengers Initiative was a shape-shifting space goblin (anyone else think Skrulls looks like they could be goblins?) would be too heavy a Gut Punch for me.
Anyway:
- Infinity War's second trailer is coming *really* soon, you guys.
- And since it looks like nobody brought it up, Marvel Studios will only work on bringing in the X-Men and Fantastic 4 when the Disney-Fox deal has been finalized.
So continue keeping your pants on.
Black Panther crosses $1 billion, the first mcu movie to do it without Iron Man[1]
Probably from a sense of "didn't we just do this movie?" from the general audience. The actual film managed to be it's own thing, but I could see the public perception turning a few people off. It'll be interesting to see how Miles' film does (I hope it does well, it's so pretty!).
Except Wolverine. If we bring him back I want a small, grumpy Canadian actor to play him, because that is canon, dammit.
No, it's not. Spider-Man's never made a billion. It's never even been close. The highest-grossing Spider-film of all time, Spider-Man 3, only made $890.9 million.
Homecoming is a close second at $880.2 million, but still far from a billion.
Breaking the billion-dollar barrier is really hard.
edited 10th Mar '18 10:14:29 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.There are 33 films that have passed the $1 billion mark, many of which are fairly middling (or worse) franchise films: e.g., Minions, Despicable Me 3, Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 4, Transformers 2 and 4. I was surpised Homecoming didn't pass the mark (and that it didn't reach $400 mil domestic).
The biggest Spidey movies were the Raimi ones, and they came out before the Chinese box office really took off, so I'm not surprised by them not passing $1 billion. But most people expected Homecoming to be absolutely huge, as the debut of Spidey in the MCU, and it ended up with just middling grosses. It made less than the Jumanji reboot (which, granted, says as much about the Jumanji reboot as it does about Spidey).
edited 10th Mar '18 10:26:35 AM by Galadriel
I have no idea....but it is really annoying when every time something Ao S related is dropped there are a bunch of people complaining "no, not that, we want the trailer" or even going so far to sh... all over Aos - and that while the actual fans of the show want nothing but celebrate episode 100.

Maybe they should go back to the Pre-Crisis canon where there was no continuity save what the author chose.