Nelson Peltz is done trying to save Disney. The investor who started a proxy war with Disney CEO Bob Iger to secure board seats for himself and former Disney CFO Jay Rasulo (which he lost), has sold all of his shares in Disney, which total $1 billion. CNBC says that Disney’s stock price is around ...
Read MoreMarvel has its new talking point now that its recent failures can no longer be denied. In the latest Disney quarterly earnings call, CEO Bob Iger said – or, more accurately, reiterated – that the new Marvel strategy is to put out fewer movies and TV shows per year, the idea apparently being that...
Read MoreIt’s been a few days since the Deadpool & Wolverine trailer arrived, and I’ve watched it many times since. It’s a great trailer that promises a fun movie with two fan-favorite characters played by the actors who made them big-screen stars, and it gives frustrated Marvel fans some hope tha...
Read MoreThere are conflicting reports about whether or not Captain America: Brave New World will have a Hulk. It had been taken as a given that he who smashes (or used to, anyway, before Modern Marvel got their fun-hating claws into him) would appear in the film in some capacity, as it’s festooned with m...
Read MoreThe Captain America: Brave New World overhaul is a lot more extensive than Marvel wants us to think. While the time frame for the reshoots was given as being four or five months – enough time to film an entire movie – Marvel downplayed it as simply an attempt to punch up the action. Now, Deadli...
Read MoreAs disastrous as The Marvels’ opening weekend box office was, its second weekend painted an even direr picture. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the new Marvel film dropped 78%, the largest second-weekend drop not just for an MCU film but for any superhero film “in the modern era” (which i...
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