You're assuming he died. What's the old saying for movies/tv, if you don't see a body they aren't actually dead....
There is still a huge multiverse of him running around. It is going to be hard to get rid of all of them. What is interesting is Victor Timely and the Loki season 2 teaser at the end of the movie.
Ouch. Serious underperforming by Marvel lately. Going to be quite a earnings call later this year if Lucasfilm doesn't exceed expectations with Indy 5. (doubtful, imho)
That movie had over 15 CG companies working on it. Maybe they could have fired three or four of them to spend on a better script.
That's accurate, however, even if this movie were removed from the Marvel P&L entirely, the brand on the whole has underperformed. Going into Phase 5, even knowing they were losing Downey Jr and Evans, there's no way they expected such low ROI as they got on the other movies. As was mentioned earlier in the thread, Sony proved with Spiderman that a very good profit was possible during the pandemic and had it not been for riding on their coat tails throwing an assist to Dr Strange, they would be looking even more weak on the bottom line. I expect Guardians will do well though.
To be fair, the 6th movie, if you're counting antman 3, was eternals. And that was at least a 200mil loss. And the critics weren't all that enamored with it either. Shang chi missed the mark as well. It came close to breaking even but missed by 20 or so mil at least. Thor 2 was a big disappointment as it just broke even. I think we can all agree that phase 4 was lacking. When the ceo says we need to focus on quality over quantity, something went wrong. Hopefully it's lessons learned and we can get back to just telling great stories.
I believe Marvel is feeling frustration from fans for no Fantastic 4 or real push for X-men. They weren't thrilled with Phase 4, and want a new direction sooner... just my opinion
Well that was the whole basis for Scarlett Johansson's lawsuit. Was released simultaneously on D+ and in theatres, so not very many went to the theatre to see it.
Eternals got the bad reviews and ratings to mach its box office. (I disagree with those bad reviews.)
But Eternals was directed by a Oscar winning woman who made a indie film with Frances McDormand. How could Eternals get bad reviews?
But Eternals was directed by a Oscar winning woman who made a indie film with Frances McDormand. How could Eternals get bad reviews?
I remember the lawsuit, I was just thinking it went to premium on D+, but obviously I was wrong (and as I think back now, I do remember it coming out on both). I know we paid for it at home, but it had nothing to do with not wanting to see it, it was my daughter's favorite character, it would have been 100% because of Covid for us.
Very true. I love some of those movies. 1941 is just sooo bad it's good. Universal Studios Hollywood used to use 1941's Ferris wheel as an example of a practical effect.
Ant man 2 was good. Ant Man 3, not so much.