For Marvel Studios, a company used to dominating the box office and igniting pop culture, 2023 was something of a disappointment. Amid murmurs about “Superhero fatigue“, Marvel’s publications (especially Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania; The wonders; and Disney+ series Secret invasion) made lower impact than the companyand fans, were used to it, during Drama behind the scenes required rethinking certain future plans.
While hopes are high Deadpool and Wolverine to help get things back on track this summer and upcoming projects like another Fantastic Four Having raised cautious optimism, Marvel is now admitting its shortcomings. Earlier this week, Disney CEO Bob Iger unveiled a new Marvel strategy in the future: “two TV series per year instead of the previous four and reduce our film production from maybe four per year to two, a maximum of three.” This is particularly interesting since Marvel has four films planned for 2025: Captain America: Brave New World, blade, LightningAnd Fantastic Four.
Therefore, there could potentially be some adjustments to this “maximum three” film regulation, but with a new level of caution. In a new interview with Empire MagazineMarvel Studios co-president Louis D’Esposito (who serves alongside Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige) admitted, “It’s been a tough time,” but also has hopes for what’s to come, adding adding: “If we just stayed at the top, that would be the case.” were the worst thing that could have happened to us. We took a little hit, we’ll come back strong.”
Clearly he and Iger got their stories right, because then he added, “Maybe if you do too much you water yourself down a little… We’ve learned our lesson.” Maybe two to three movies a year and one or two shows, as opposed to four movies and four shows.”
Feige interprets the situation the same way, telling the magazine: “It’s nice to be able to get behind a feature film project this year.” I feel much more comfortable being the underdog… So it looks like last year , which wasn’t ideal, prepared us well for it.”
Deadpool and Wolverine— the only Marvel film scheduled for 2024, although that’s more due to strike delays in Hollywood rather than design — hits theaters July 26. Until now echo However, is the only new live-action Marvel Cinematic Universe TV series coming to Disney+ in 2024 The WandaVision Spin-off based around the breakthrough character Agatha Harkness is also due later this year.
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