At the Sony Pictures presentation at CinemaCon, the studio announced that the official title of Marvel’s solo Spider-Man movie will be Spider-Man: Homecoming, and above you can find an official logo that was revealed at the presentation. Continue reading
When the sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp was first announced, many concluded that it spelled doom for another Marvel Studios release. And now that appears to be true. It sounds like Marvel and Disney are getting ready to push their Inhumans movie back by an undetermined amount of months, possibly years. And it might go from being a Phase Three movie to becoming one of the key releases in Marvel Phase Four. Continue reading
With the success of the foul-mouthed Deadpool, many (including Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn) have wondered if Hollywood would learn the wrong lesson from the film and start green-lighting R-rated superhero movies left and right because it’s the trendy new thing to do. But it sounds like Disney CEO Bob Iger isn’t going to be influenced by the hottest, latest thing — he’s perfectly content with the way things are going at Marvel Studios right now. Continue reading
20th Century Fox has moved around their upcoming release date schedule this weekend and the changes include some untitled Fox / Marvel release updates. Continue reading
When the new Marvel Cinematic Universe Spider-Man movie arrives in 2017, it will be doing so on the biggest screens imaginable. IMAX Theaters today confirmed that Jon Watts’ Spider-Man will arrive in IMAX on its new worldwide date of July 7, 2017. The announcement was made by Josh Greenstein, president of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution for Sony Pictures, Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, and Greg Foster, Senior Executive Vice President, IMAX Corp. and CEO of IMAX Entertainment. Continue reading
The rights to the Marvel Comics villain Taskmaster have been over at 20th Century Fox for some time now, but according to ComicBook.com, the rights have recently reverted back to Marvel Studios. The rights of the character were brought into question during an interview with Deadpool director Tim Miller. When asked what other characters he’d like to see fight Deadpool on the big screen, he said: Continue reading
Chris Evans’ relationship with Marvel Studios has been viewed as a tenuous one. He was reluctant to sign up for the role of Captain America at first, and he’s been more vocal than his co-stars about looking forward to having more time for other projects when his contract is up.
However, Evans tells Collider that, if Marvel wants him to stick around, all the studio has to do is ask:
“Listen, if Marvel wants me they got me. I’ve never had such a relationship where you have such—I mean look at my resume, I’m used to being on set being like, ‘Ah is this movie gonna be terrible?’ Marvel just can’t stop making great movies, they do it in their sleep. Its wonderful directors and producers and actors and scripts, and it’s like a playground as an actor.”
Short version: Captain America is a big upgrade from Human Torch.
As to Evans’ initial hesitation about joining the Marvel Universe, he seems pretty confident that he ended up making the right decision:
“It’s so mind-boggling that I was so tentative in the beginning to jump onboard. What an asshole I would be if I hadn’t done this. I mean can you imagine? Kicking myself—I’d never forgive myself!”
In another recent interview, Evans said that he was “terrified” thinking about being finished with Captain America. Assuming Marvel Studios doesn’t have other plans for the star-spangled suit and shield, maybe a contract extension is in Evans’ future.
Sure, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes were able to defeat Loki, and thwarted the plans of Ultron, but the Avengers could not rise above the drawing power that is Floyd “Money” Mayweather. In fact, a huge coalition of sports over the weekend successfully torpedoed the sequel’s chances of not only cracking the $200M opening weekend plateau, but also matching the opening numbers of 2012’s The Avengers. Continue reading
We’ve already heard rumors that Marvel was looking at possibly hiring Angelina Jolie to direct Captain Marvel, but it looks like the studio is starting to get serious about it. According to Collider, the actress turned director is under serious consideration for the gig. Continue reading
Just recently we learned from Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige that the studio was currently on the hunt for writers take on their Captain Marvel project. Well, the hunt is over because they are going to hire two writers to develop the screenplay. Continue reading
