Could things be turning around at Marvel? Probably not, but in lieu of some recent debacles, they may be cleaning house and preparing to clean a bit more should the need arise. First, on The Hot Mic, Jeff Sneider said that he has heard that Jeff Loveness is no longer writing Avengers: The Kang Dynas...
Read MoreJonathan Majors has received some more bad news, as well as a silver lining – for now, at least. Deadline exclusively reports that Entertainment 360, Majors’ talent manager, has dropped him, as has The Lede Company, a public relations firm. Additionally, fashion label Valentino has “mutually a...
Read MoreJonathan Majors, the up-and-coming actor who plays Kang the Conqueror in the MCU and recently starred in Creed III, has been arrested in New York City. The charges are “strangulation, assault and harassment.” The police responded to a 911 call from an apartment in Chelsea, a neighborhood in Manh...
Read MoreAnt-Man and the Wasp are being squashed like bugs. In its second weekend, Marvel’s latest superhero outing, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, dropped from its $106 million domestic opening to just under $32 million, according to The Numbers. This is a 70% drop, the worst in the MCU’s history. I...
Read MoreAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has been out for a week – with no apology to moviegoers forthcoming, it would seem – so it’s time to get into the nitty-gritty of the film and why it doesn’t work. As luck would have it, screenwriter Jeff Loveness did an interview with The Hollywood Reporter...
Read MoreAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is proof – the latest piece of proof, at least – that Marvel doesn’t care anymore. They don’t care about storytelling, their characters, human and relatable themes, establishing stakes, or even building their universe in exciting ways, which used to be their...
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