14 posts tagged ‘marvel’
What's right and what's wrong with Marvel today?
AV Club,
It’s not much of a surprise that The Marvels didn’t fare so well at the domestic box office in its first weekend. Sure, it came in at No. 1 with $47 million, but that’s the lowest opening of any film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Factor in the $41.4 million it made internationally, and that’s still less than $90… Read more...
11 Burning Questions We Have After The Marvels
Gizmodo,
The Marvels is here, and with it, a bunch of updates on just what is going on in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from Earth, to space, and beyond. But while much of the team-up movie’s big beats are neatly wrapped up by its brisk end, there are plenty of questions we have left over... Read more...
The Marvels is headed for one of the MCU's all-time worst box office openings
Whatever your feelings about the current creative state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s hard to deny that the franchise’s financial issues are becoming more obvious by the week. That’s come into especially tight focus this week, with the release of Nia DaCosta’s The Marvels, which just posted the second-worst… Read more...
The Marvels raises the question: How many times is Marvel going to tease us with [REDACTED]?
[This story contains big, massive, obvious spoilers for The Marvels. You’ve been warned!] Read more...
“The Marvels” and the Paradox of the Superhero Franchise
The New Yorker,
How did a genre rooted in weirdness and wonder become a byword for the normative, the familiar, and the mundane?
Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks take to the skies in the Masters Of The Air teaser
Over the last two decades, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks have frequently returned to their base-level supporters: World War II-obsessed fathers. Between Saving Private Ryan and Greyhound, Spielberg and Hanks, both together and apart, have routinely returned to the Greatest Generation and admired how they fought and… Read more...