“Thor: Love & Thunder” isn’t just the return of Chris Hemsworth as the God of Thunder for yet another appearance in an MCU film. It actually marks the first time in Marvel Studios history that a solo character has returned for a fourth feature.
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Superhero films sure do love a multiverse story, right? So, let’s take a cue from film studios and venture into the multiverse and take a look at a bizarro world where up is down, left is right, and DC Films has reached the heights of Marvel Studios. How did this crazy world come to existence? Well, this is what would have happened if Kevin Feige jumped ship and left Marvel Studios several years ago and helped craft the DC Film universe, which is something that could have happened, apparently.
“Thor: Love & Thunder” isn’t just the return of Chris Hemsworth as the God of Thunder for yet another appearance in an MCU film. It actually marks the first time in Marvel Studios history that a solo character has returned for a fourth feature.
Disney kicked off its CineEurope presentation in Barcelona today with 12 minutes of footage from July’s Marvel fourquel Thor: Love And Thunder, and throughout the show teased trailers and looks at its other upcoming titles including four never-before-seen scenes from James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way Of Water.
“As we’re nearing the end of Phase 4, I think people will start to see where this next saga is going,” Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige recently told Total Film.
Zack Sharf The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase Four has included box office blockbusters like the billion-dollar grossing “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse Madness” ($942 million worldwide and counting), plus the MCU’s first foray into television with hits like “WandaVision” and “Loki.” But what Phase Four has lacked for a majority of MCU fans is a sense of narrative drive and cohesion. As Variety’s Adam B.
is part of a larger plan.With each new project in this phase, which began last year with WandaVision, fans have wondered if the MCU was building toward a new “Endgame”-like event. But each time, the connections to the world at large have gotten fewer and farther between.
Kevin Feige and the folks at Marvel Studios sure weren’t lying when they kept saying that “Avengers: Endgame” marked an end to that chapter of superhero storytelling. Since the end of ‘Endgame’ and the beginning of what is dubbed Phase 4, fans have been wondering what all of these new films (and TV shows) are building towards? Well, True Believer, Feige assures you that it will become much more clear soon enough.
EXCLUSIVE: Good Girls alum Manny Montana is set as a series regular opposite Dominique Thorne in Marvel Studios’ Disney+ series Ironheart, Deadline has learned. Details about his character are kept under wraps. A rep for Marvel had no comment.
EXCLUSIVE: Crazy Rich Asians and Superstore actor Nico Santos is the latest name we can reveal to be in Marvel’s recently wrapped Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3.
Charlize Theron is giving fans some insight into her latest roles.
Marvel Studios may have its next big team-up movie. A film based on the Thunderbolts — a team of supervillains in the Marvel comics — is in early development, with director Jake Schreier on board, Variety has confirmed.“Black Widow” writer Eric Pearson will write the film, and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige will produce.
Jake Schreier is set to direct top secret project “Thunderbolts” for Marvel Studios, according to an individual with knowledge.Eric Pearson is writing the script. Kevin Feige is producing.The “Thunderbolts” center on a team of reformed supervillains.
EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios’ top-secret Thunderbolts movie looks to have gained momentum as Deadline has learned that Jake Schreier is set as director of the new Marvel tentpole. Black Widow scribe Eric Pearson is penning the script with Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige producing.
Toby Emmerich had a meal with Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy at the Polo Lounge, a hub of deal-making and power lunches, in a move that was clearly designed to send a signal of solidarity to Hollywood. The bread-breaking, which went down as show business players like producer Donald De Line and CAA agent Joel Lubin dined nearby, came just a day after Emmerich announced that he will step down as head of Warner Bros.’ film studio. De Luca, who worked with Emmerich back in the day at New Line, and Abdy will soon join the company, though in a reduced role; they will oversee Warner Bros.
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) has joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a key role in Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3, we can reveal.
Unless you are a hardcore listener to The Playlist Podcast, you may not recognize Kate Herron’s name. You won’t, but you should.
Unless you are a hardcore listener to The Playlist Podcast, you may not recognize Kate Herron’s name. You won’t, but you should.
Toby Emmerich’s exit as chairman of the Warner Bros. Pictures group, and the ascension of former MGM film leaders Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy, are just the latest instances of upheaval in what is already shaping up to be a tempestuous new era at the studio behind Harry Potter and Batman.Emmerich’s ouster has been gossiped about for years, dating back well before the company was sold to Discovery. Still, his decision to leave for a production deal stunned executives on the studio’s Burbank lot, many of whom had worked with Emmerich for decades.
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav on Wednesday dropped his memo to staff about Toby Emmerich stepping down as Chairman of the Motion Picture Group and the three new studio divisions being put in place. It’s a slightly similar structure to the way Disney handles its franchise brands, with the hope that DC will have its own Kevin Feige maestro to exploit IP across all mediums.
Ncuti Gatwa did a great job at keeping his Doctor Who casting a secret.