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Zoe Saldana stars in "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3"SOURCE: MARVEL

That’s not to say Marvel — along with all studios and streamers — doesn’t face some hurdles going forward. But the nature of those obstacles for Marvel are frankly pretty obvious; it’s mostly things Marvel has overcome before; and regardless of those issues and the need to address them, Marvel is still actually doing pretty good right now even amid the problems they’ve had.

So let’s just unpack what’s really going wrong, and what it means for Marvel Studios.

The situation with actor Jonathan Majors — the star of several Marvel films and streaming shows, as the MCU’s time-traveling villain Kang the Conqueror — is that he faces multiple accusations of abuse, and is scheduled to stand trial for one recent case. After that case was initially reported, other accusations surfaced, as did previous public statements from years ago by performers who asserted accusations of abuse were already circulating about Majors.

So yes, Marvel will almost certainly recast Kang. Lucky for Marvel, the character literally exists across a near-infinite number of alternate realities where he takes different forms and changes appearance. Likewise, Marvel has had to recast characters in the past, just like lots of other franchise or TV/streaming series. This isn’t brain surgery, and the framing of this issue as something that could sink Marvel’s whole future plans is frankly nonsense.

Just one great example, Marvel could offer the role to John Boyega (who I’d argue should’ve been the top candidate for the role in the first place). Or maybe Denzel Washington as an iteration of Kang who sat out the in-fighting and collective efforts of the rest of the Kangs and grew older and wiser as he made his plans to take over. Or maybe Ray Fisher could be offered the role, if Marvel wants to poke DC and WBD while scoring a great casting option.

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Or perhaps Marvel could offer the role to Leslie Odom Jr., Lakeith Stanfield, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Daveed Diggs, Stephan James, or any number of other fantastic casting choices to take over the role of Kang in the MCU.

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The point is, the worst part of the situation with John Majors is if the allegations are true and women suffered this abuse while Hollywood ignored it. The casting “problem” is small potatoes by comparison, and is easy to solve.

So let’s look at the financials now, since a central claim to the “Marvel is in trouble” narrative is that the studio is struggling at the box office while streaming is an unpopular mess.

At the box office, it’s true Marvel hit a high point with their back to back releases of the two-part Avengers conclusion to the Infinity Saga. The $2.79 billion from Endgame and $2 billion from Infinity War elevated the final global gross for all 22 films in that saga to more than $20 billion, for a per-film average of around $935 million.

In 2018 and 2019, the MCU put up the following numbers: Black Panther hit $1.34 billion, then Infinity War topped $2 billion, then Captain Marvel scored $1.1 billion, and then Endgame took $2.79 billion. Ant-Man and the Wasp at $622 is the only MCU film in those 24 months that failed to top $1 billion.

Since the Infinity Saga ended, Marvel’s releases have taken north of $8.1 billion across 10 movies so far, with a Multiverse Saga per film average of about $815 million. The difference between $815 million and $935 million is not insignificant, but nor is it disastrous, and it’s certainly not hard to understand why it’s happening.

The 2018 and 2019 slates for the Infinity Saga benefited from a decade of build-up, and it was those last four (out of five total) blockbusters topping $1-2 billion each that provided the final heft and resulted in an even higher per film average. We are only in the first half of the Multiverse Saga to date, and so far we haven’t had a single Avengers movie in this new saga, while as noted the Infinity Saga ended with a one-two Avengers punch good for more than $2 million per film.

And then the fact of the Covid pandemic alone accounts for most of the rest of the downturn in Marvel Studios’ average box office performance. Even during the Covid pandemic, when films were flopping or going straight to streaming/PVOD, Marvel’s three releases that performed “badly” due to the global health crisis still managed to finish between $379.7 million on the lowest end and $432 million. That’s better than the DCEU can perform even after theaters reopened and box office started its climb back toward something resembling “normal” — at least for the right films, since 2023 has been a roller coaster ride for theatrical.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania underperformed earlier this year and wound up the weakest performer of that franchise at $476 million, but Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 scored blockbuster results with $845.5 million.

Indeed, Vol. 3 is currently the fourth-highest grossing movie of 2023, both domestically and worldwide. And for the record, as disappointing as its box office was, 2023 has been so cruel to theatrical releases that Quantumania is still a top-10 box office performer.

We’ve seen one would-be blockbuster tentpole after another face-plant or otherwise disappoint, and often when a tentpole has managed a healthy box office performance it’s at a more moderate level than expected or typically enjoyed by the given franchise and/or its prior financial trajectory.

Other than Barbie, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Oppenheimer, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, nothing else truly put up top-tier results this year. Fast X topped $700 million, but is fourth film in a row from the series to suffer a decline from its predecessor’s box office gross, and the lowest box office for the franchise since 2011’s Fast Five, so it’s a mixed bag there.

Besides that, 2023 saw three films in the $500-600 millions range, four in $400 millions territory, and a couple of $300 millions.

The makeup of the top 10 this year looks like this: Barbie, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Oppenheimer, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Fast X, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Little Mermaid, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, Elemental, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.

Notice, there are three Marvel superhero movies in the top 10. Yes, one of them underperformed, but the point is that it seems silly to talk as if audience are in any widespread or large scale way turning away from superhero cinema, or that Marvel is somehow reeling from a downfall and have lost control.

The Marvels is currently tracking toward a shockingly low debut this weekend, with most projections pointing to a $130-$150 million global opening. Without at least average holds, the film could struggle to get past $300-400 million. On the other hand, I think tracking has proven pretty unreliable these days, and I believe a significant part of these disappointing numbers is the fact a lot of people are confusing this film with being another new Disney+ Marvel show, or think it is coming to Disney+ as a film soon. There’s also the general 2023 ongoing curse to consider.

But regardless, The Marvels should’ve been a home run sequel. While we can point to the unethical shenanigans and toxic behavior of fans and of certain organized hateful online voices obsessed with attacking women-driven movies or shows, if this film flops or underperforms rather than merely suffering a downward adjustment consistent with the genre overall (which would mean a box office for The Marvels in the $700 million range, I’d say), then it’s entirely fair to call it a big stumble for the studio.

The large-scale tainting of superhero cinema by the DCEU’s overarching failure the past several years (eight films in a row across five years, all failing to reach $400 million and averaging in the roughly $250 million range) coinciding with the Covid pandemic and theatrical downturn, coupled with a leveling off — not uncontrolled free-fall or any other hyperbolic situation — of Marvel’s must-see “event” status in the aftermath of their 11-year Infinity Saga’s conclusion (and lack of any Avengers team-ups for four years and counting) has no doubt reduced the dominance of the superhero genre and audience’s previous high-level anticipation.

But that sort of heightened “event” status is impossible for any franchise or genre to maintain, and no serious person expected the genre or any one studio’s piece of it to be some perpetual ever-increasing profit machine

Neither Marvel nor the genre in general need to treat the usual ebb and flow of primacy in entertainment as if it’s some major crisis threatening the existence and profitability of the studio or genre. That’s just the natural clickbait mentality driving entertainment journalism. We should be able to report on and assess such situations without resort to exaggerated portrayals for melodramatic purposes, nor parrot claims from those with obvious incentives and ulterior motives behind any of that sort of hyperbolic claims. We know better, but that doesn’t mean the profession behaves better, and so we get clickbait and studio drama delivered up like silly reality TV, and everyone pretends not to recognize it as the nonsense it usually is.

Marvel has to recast a major lead actor, something we’ve seen plenty of times by studios and projects, including literally by Marvel themselves on more than one occasion. Marvel’s first two films of 2023 grossed a combined $1.3 billion in box office. Even if The Marvels only does about half the box office of Captain Marvel — a vastly bigger drop than the Ant-Man franchise experienced, but let’s just use a 50% dramatic decrease to make the larger point — the MCU will have grossed a total of about $2.45 billion for 2023, an average of $815 million per film.

If that figure sounds familiar, it’s because I mentioned it earlier since it’s the per-film average for the MCU ever since the end of the Infinity Saga. Marvel settled back a bit from the high per-film average of $935 million, and for four years we’ve consistently seen this same new average level of performance for their films. Again, not insignificant as a drop, but in context it’s easier to understand and recognize as not a sudden emergency situation, and I suspect most studios would be happy if they could average north of $800 million per film on average every year.

And let’s face it, once the latest Avengers movies hit the radar, we’ll see the average per film gross go up during those years, just like always, and in the long run if the two scheduled Avengers movies play at the $2 billion level, that will actually result in an increase in the final average per-film gross for the Multiverse Saga, just as those huge Avengers box office grosses at the end of Infinity Saga seriously raised the saga’s per-film average.

This is all fairly predictable, within an obvious margin of error but not frankly too far of deviation. Which doesn’t negate the fact of the downturn in average performances, but rather puts it into less histrionic perspective as solvable problems for a still overwhelmingly successful studio that’s seeing per film averages still far superior to what any other studio can claim.

On streaming, where audience trends and preferences have likewise evolved during the Covid era, Marvel

First we got the ABC broadcast series: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, and Inhumans. Want to take a moment to recall how did those all fair with audiences and critics?

Then came Netflix's slate, with Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders, and The Punisher — half of those got mostly good or great reviews, a couple got mixed to negative reviews, and along the way different seasons of a given show had their ups and downs. Many fans and reviewers bemoaned the general lack of tie-in to the cinematic releases, a point that's amusing in light of how the same reviewers and fans completely reversed course a few years later to bemoan the fact the newer MCU shows often try to tie in to the MCU.

So next up are The Runaways and Cloak and Dagger, shows with younger casts and less direct connection to the rest of the MCU, but both were short lived and appeared on two different streaming services.

Which brings us to the MCU shows on Disney+, overseen by Marvel Studios itself and consisting of WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, What If...?, Hawkeye, Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and Secret Invasion.

While The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and What If...? received mixed reactions, WandaVision and Loki got generally good to great reviews, as did Hawkeye and Moon Knight.

Ms. Marvel likewise received strong positive reviews, aside from resentful fans mostly motivated by racism or sexism who bashed the show (the same way angry bigoted fans harassed Brie Larson and tried to manipulate online reviews for Captain Marvel, and to this day engage in bizarre conspiracy theories pretending movies with women leads are secretly propped up by studios buying up tickets), and the same mob of boys and men perpetually upset that everything isn’t just a mirror reflecting themselves were incensed that She-Hulk dared make fun of them for being immature, bigoted, and all-around goofy.

Granted, She-Hulk did often have what looked like rushed and unfinished CGI, but it was also still miles ahead of most TV CGI and it didn’t detract from the entertainment value of the show and was generally fine. (Yes, plenty of folks just didn’t enjoy these shows, and I’m sure it’s entirely a coincidence that for many of them it always happens to be women-led shows that bother them or are declared “meh”).

Secret Wars is the most recent new MCU show (besides a new season of Loki), and it got mixed reviews that lean mostly positive but still point to trouble in the decision-making to develop the series, questions about

The point of all of this is, Marvel’s had a lot of superhero shows for a long time during the reign of the MCU, and the shows have tended to mostly get good or great reviews, while often suffering complaints of inconsistency in tie-ins vs stand-alone abilities, or iffy VFX, or questions about who is in charge and why certain decisions were made. Sound familiar? It should, because it’s a broken record of reality at this point, the sort that gets mentioned as if it’s a new development any time someone is pushing the latest version of the “sky is falling” narrative.

Not that there aren’t issues needing solutions. The budgets are too high, and Marvel — like many streamers — is discovering it’s simply not sustainable to spend $20 million or more per episode with rushed production schedules and increasingly unreasonable demands on VFX workers.

But the shows themselves are so far working and working pretty well, if you aren’t focused entirely on social media debates and media exaggerations. Most every MCU show on Disney+ has enjoyed positive reception from critics and viewers, enjoying good (and sometimes record-setting) viewership. Fixing the problems for the Marvel streaming plans is not really any more difficult than fixing the theatrical issues, because it’s easy to identify the problems, easy to see where the problems arose, and easy to see what is necessary to end those problems.

Nobody foresaw the Covid pandemic (or at least the extent of it) or the utterly shameful, failed public health response it elicited from governments and organizations that are paid and entrusted to prevent or deal with such crises. Marvel was caught off guard like every studio, Marvel suffered the same box office downturn as every studio, Marvel leaned into streaming like every studio, and Marvel is now having to make adjustments to adapt to the still-evolving environment theatrically and in streaming.

So media and fans and others in Hollywood pretending this is some shocking, Marvel-specific situation are making disingenuous claims, and they should know better. Most probably do, but the truth is more boring than doomsaying — and with everything else in the world falling apart, clickbait and hyperbole are the best way to get attention for entertainment news during a drought (caused by few new films/shows releasing, and the likelihood of strikes dragging into next year because studios put money toward bonuses, yachts, and private jets rather than pay artists, writers, and performers living wages from a fair share of the revenue they generate).

Marvel will recast Kang, they’ll reduce the number of shows and films in production at a given time, they’ll get budgets under control and allow more time for VFX work, and they’ll refocus on the approaches and measures that worked so well in the past to determine which projects to greenlight and how to return to the sense of a big shared world the Avengers have to team up to save.

Luckily, with the X-Men and Fantastic Four reboots around the corner, Marvel has a couple of big teams with lots of potential for precisely the sort of storytelling Marvel does best at the blockbuster level. They could even simply move toward a post-Secret Wars setup that lets Fantastic Four, X-Men, and a handful of other existing popular franchises carry the Marvel brand forward for a while.

We will also probably see the temporary return of Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, and Scarlett Johansson reprise their popular MCU roles for Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and/or Avengers: Secret Wars.

And looking at the upcoming slate, it’s not hard to see there’s plenty of reason to feel confident Marvel will continue to enjoy success, even if it’s at a slightly moderated level due to the myriad factors we’ve discussed, including the idea that superhero genre films are settling into a more consistent long-term level of popularity and performance from now on.

The next four years brings Deadpool 3, Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts, Blade, Fantastic Four, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, and Avengers: Secret Wars, and at some point thereafter Armor Wars and the X-Men. Of these films, the two Avengers movies are likely to be blockbuster hits, as is Deadpool 3. Captain America: Brave New World is an established franchise, lacking the original series lead but with a continuing cast and brand that I think are enough to avoid any significant downturn in box office, even if we see some drop from the peak levels of the Infinity Saga.

Blade and Thunderbolts are the riskier properties here, but the former is a previously successful cinematic brand and the latter is a team-up movie including some recognizable characters and stars. Still, this is where we might see more underperformances. Fantastic Four could likewise either perform at a blockbuster levels, or might wind up in the $700 million range, but as a key property getting lots of attention and must-work oversight, I think it’ll avoid being a problem.

Armor Wars as an extension of the Iron Man movies — and possibly/probably coming after we see Robert Downey Jr. again in some Avengers action — should perform well, and X-Men is a known successful brand getting an MCU reboot and polish as a big team franchise including younger cast members, so I think it’ll at least be capable of playing at the Guardians of the Galaxy level, if done right.

This isn’t a debacle, it’s not doomsday, and Marvel isn’t in disarray. The internal difficulties they’ve faced are frankly typical and easy to identify and solve, as much as everything else we’ve discussed here. The bottom line is this: we’ve seen Marvel Studios kick off with a big hit in Iron Man and an outright flop with The Incredible Hulk, after which Captain America: The First Avenger and Thor performed at okay levels but didn’t set the box office on fire by any stretch.

We got the original Avengers movie off the strength of Iron Man and Iron Man 2, and to really help put this into perspective I’ll point out the average per film box office of Phase One was $634 million. Phase Two’s per film average was $876 million.

Marvel worked hard to build what they created, and it’s a tremendous historic success full of ups and downs that so far have ultimately maintained an impressive level of successful across a large slate of films and series. To look at this history, this math, and think Marvel Studios is in deep trouble, struggling, or never really was very good to begin with, is unreasonable and contrary to the data and any serious considerations.

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Tony stop looking so jealous. Steve has enough hugs to go around.

Marvel Action: Avengers (2018) issue #10

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fic masterpost

Updated 13/11/2022~ Those with a [☆] are my personal favourites! 

Genshin Impact

Mostly focused on ZhongChiLi with a touch of AllChilde/PanTaru. I write ZhongChiLi primarily as switch in mind although all the smut scenes are tagged with t/b for readers’ comfort.

Fool's Gold 

Pantalone x Childe, Pantalone x Childe x Dottore (threesome), Zhongli x Childe heavy nsfw + dark themes multichapter, 7/7 complete

Magpie Eyes'  Pantalone x Childe, past Zhongli x Childe heavy nsfw + dark themes one-shot, complete

Phantom Lines [☆]  ZhongChiLi canon-compliant, soft nsfw, the last chapter 7 (zhongchi) smut is skippable multichapter, complete ____________________________________________________________________

Tian Guan Ci Fu (天官赐福)

My main ships are ShuangXuan/beefleaf aka He Xuan and Shi Qingxuan; and JunMei aka. Jun Wu and Mei Nianqing.

Seachange ShuangXuan/beefleaf Teen, modern AU roommates fluff incomplete 2/4 Gift for meru90! 

Returning Earth [☆] ShuangXuan/beefleaf heavy nsfw + dark themes, canon-compliant multichapter, incomplete 10/? Sunflowers  [☆] JunMei nsfw, post canon fix-it, one-shot, complete

Gift for @hisashi772 !! Accompanying art is here

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Mo Dao Zhu Shi (魔道祖师)

The fics follow mostly the novel version of the story, as I have never watched the live-action/CQL. 

Vermillion Seeds 《 此物最相思 》  [☆]

WangXian, post canon wedding fic, soft nsfw, one-shot, complete

Fragrance《 沈香 》[☆]

WangXian, post canon soft nsfw, one-shot, complete

Gift for River/@venti_later

Eclipse《影起日蚀》 WangXian, Timeloop AU, angst, incomplete 4/? (hiatus)

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Lo & Behold Gen, crack-comedy, AU Marvel Avengers crossover, incomplete 2/? (hiatus) 《皮蛋》 sometimes a once-in-a-century egg drops by WangXian, comedy, incomplete 1/2 (hiatus)

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Andromedea series explores relationships between Jin Guangyao, Lan Xichen, Nie Mingjue (3zun) and Jiang Cheng during the years when Wei Wuxian was gone. 

Burning Sugar XiYao, nsfw, one-shot, complete Gift for Nomette/@nommette

Saturn's Rings (don't be a heartbreaker)

XiCheng, nsfw, one-shot, complete On Neptune it Rains Diamonds [☆]

Jiang Cheng x Jin Guangyao x Lan Xichen (threesome) heavy nsfw + dark themes one-shot, complete gift fic for seredemia/fran

Fireflies on Jupiter's Moon

3zun ficlet series M-rated, multichap ficlets (1000w and below)

Standing on Europa's Ocean [☆]

Gen-rating. TGCF crossover, Crimson Rain pays Jiang Cheng a visit during Mid-Autumn festival.  one-shot, complete gift fic for Jem

Bungo Stray Dogs’

My primary ship is Soukoku aka. Dazai and Chuuya.

Linger [☆] 

Soukoku, gen/teen-rated Chuuya disappears mystery fic one-shot, complete

Rush a Smile into a Headlight 

Soukoku, gen/teen-rated SKK 2018 halloween event one-shot, complete

Exchange fic with hellosweetie

Solstice (words are futile devices) [☆]

Soukoku, kitsune dazai x tengu chuuya yokai AU collab fic with Senren’s comics and Shao’s illustration

nsfw, multichapter, complete

O Children (give my gun away when it's loaded)  [☆]  Soukoku, M-rated, canon-compliant SKK week 2018 prompt: fifteen Gift fic for setsofdarkness  I Sin When You were the Last (high)  Soukoku, nsfw motorbike smut one-shot, complete (i believe) I Think I Said Goodbye to My Soul Tonight  Soukoku, nsfw chuuya demands some answers one-shot, complete You Only Get What You Give (hold tight)  Soukoku, nsfw dazai and chuuya remember one-shot, complete Regarding Black Honey (hanahaki AU), it has been taken off ao3 and I hope readers’ will respect my request not to share or redistribute the fic. Thank you.

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On this day (July 4, late) in Sharon Carter history, Sharon appeared in:

Avengers Vs. X-Men #7 (2012)

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Captain America V9 #1 (2018)

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Marvel Super Action #10 (Reprint Captain America #108) (1978)

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Jacoba Francisca Maria "Cobie Smulders" (April 3, 1982) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her starring role as Robin Scherbatsky in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014) and as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films The Avengers (2012), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), as well as the ABC action drama series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D (2013–2015), the Disney+ animated anthology series What If...? (2021), and the upcoming Disney+ limited series Secret Invasion (2023).

Smulders' other films include Safe Haven (2013), They Came Together (2014), Results (2015), and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016). She also starred in the Netflix comedy drama series A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017), the Netflix comedy series Friends from College (2017–2019), the ABC crime drama series Stumptown (2019–2020), and the FX true crime series Impeachment: American Crime Story (2021).

Smulders was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to a Dutch father and a British mother. She was raised in White Rock, British Columbia, and later moved to the affluent West Point Grey neighbourhood to attend high school at Lord Byng Secondary School. She was named after her great-aunt, from whom she gained the nickname "Cobie". Smulders describes herself as "a fluent listener" of French. She has four sisters. Smulders was also a member of the Girl Guides of Canada as a child, participating as a Brownie (Girl Guide program for 7- to 10-year-olds).

Smulders worked in modelling, which she later said she "kind of hated", adding that the experience made her hesitant about pursuing acting as a career: "You know, you go into these rooms, and I've had the experience of people judging you physically for so long and I was over that. But then it was like, 'Oh no, I have to actually perform. I have to do well, and I have to have a voice, and I have to have thoughts now.'"

In her youth, Smulders aspired to be a marine biologist. She took an interest in theatre throughout high school and briefly studied at the University of Victoria before returning to acting.

Smulders' first acting role was as a guest in the Showtime science-fiction series Jeremiah; she subsequently made multiple appearances on television, including a recurring role on The L Word. Her first role as a series regular was in the short-lived ABC series Veritas: The Quest, which ran for one season. After the cancellation of Veritas, Smulders was cast as television reporter Robin Scherbatsky on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother in 2005. The show continued for nine seasons, winning 10 Emmy Awards. In June 2010, Smulders made her off-Broadway debut in Love, Loss, and What I Wore at the Westside Theatre.

Smulders played Maria Hill in the 2012 film The Avengers. She received training from a Los Angeles SWAT team trainer to handle guns to portray the character. Smulders has since reprised the role in three episodes of the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and in the films Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019).

In 2013, Smulders had a supporting role in the romance film Safe Haven. She also starred in the comedy-drama Delivery Man and They Came Together. Smulders voiced a Lego version of Wonder Woman in the 2014 animated film The Lego Movie. It was the first time the Wonder Woman character had a theatrical film appearance. In July 2015, Smulders was reported to have exited the made-for-TV film Confirmation because she had broken her leg; Zoe Lister-Jones was then confirmed to replace her in the role of Harriet Grant.

In 2016, she appeared in the comedy-drama The Intervention and the action adventure film Jack Reacher: Never Go Back opposite Tom Cruise. In 2017, she played the recurring character "Mother" in the Netflix series A Series of Unfortunate Events. From 2017 to 2019, she starred in the Netflix original series, Friends from College, in the main role of Lisa Turner. She starred as Dexedrine "Dex" Parios, a PTSD-stricken military veteran turned private detective, in the ABC crime drama Stumptown, which premiered on September 25, 2019.

In 2022, she returned to the role of Robin Charles Scherbatsky for the first season finale of the HIMYM spinoff How I Met Your Father, which airs on Hulu, titled "Timing is Everything".

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Top grossing korean movies

Likewise, some recent movies including Spiderman Homecoming (July 5, 2017), Black Panther (Feb. In February 2018, South Korea was selected to be the first host country for the International Press Tour of the first Marvel movie of 2018, Black Panther. Moreover, many actors of Marvel movies have visited South Korea personally to promote their movies, including Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Tom Holland. An aide who worked on Marvel movies told Chosun Ilbo that success in Korea can bring word of mouth that turns movies into hits in other Asian countries. Over time, the number of people watching Marvel movies on their first day has increased as well.Īccording to Kevin Feige, the President of Marvel Studios, the core reason for the early premieres in Korea is that South Korea has been an indicator of success. Avengers: Infinity War, for example, was released a week earlier. All the Marvel movies except Captain America: The First Avenger and Ant-Man were released in Korea before the United States. First of all, it is easy to see the slogan “First Release in Korea” or “Faster Premiere in Korea” on the movie posters. The MCU actively tries to promote and maintain a favorable public opinion in South Korea. But, to explain more about some factors which made Marvel movies so famous in South Korea, I want to address two main reasons: marketing strategies and lessons from the movies. The reason why most MCU movies were able to succeed in the Korean movie market is that people obviously love the characters and the stunning visuals. MCU so far includes 18 movies, and 13 of them appear on the list of all-time highest-grossing films at the Korean box office list Avengers: Infinity War at 14, Age of Ultron at 17, Iron Man 3 at 23 and Captain America: Civil War at 24. The movie marks the 10th anniversary since the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) released Iron Man, the first in the Marvel superhero series, and clearly shows how famous the MCU movies have become among Korean audiences. Total Gross in millions.When Avengers: Infinity War was released in South Korea on April 25, 980,676 people watched it just on the first day, a record high among Marvel movies. Here are the current top 20 highest-grossing movies of all-time. The highest-grossing video game franchise may have earned most of its money from merchandising but Pokémon RedGreenBlueYellow still ranks seventh among the top-selling video games of all time topping out at 47520000 copies. The series goes on to become the highest-grossing film series of all-time. A full blast of romantic korean movies that rise the image of South Korea as. Look only to an early scene in a South Korean casino in which T. In 1953 the Korean War is entering the final stage. Four of the 20 highest-grossing movies of all time came.ĩ1 100 Powered by Rank Math SEO Are you bored. The Top 10 Best-Selling Video Game Franchises of All Time 1.

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M.C.U

MARVEL CIINEMATIC UNIVERSE

Marvel cinematic universe aka the MCU is an American media franchise. It is a shared universe that contains twenty-nine movies and seven shows. Marvel's own studio known as the Marvel Studios produces all of MCU's films and shows. Marvel Studios, founded in 2007 released its first movie Iron Man on May 2, 2008,

Iron Man was the film that kicked off the highly known and successful franchise MCU.

MCU's twenty-nine movies and seven shows are sorted into 4 phases. The first three phases are collectively known as THE INFINITY SAGA, and the subsequent three phases ie,4, 5, and 6 are now collectively known as THE MULTIVERSE SAGA. I have broken down the entire MCU line up explaining and summarizing all movies and shows below.

THE INFINITY SAGA

PHASE ONE

phase one of the MCU started with Iron Man (2008) and ended with the first live-action Avengers team-up movie The Avengers (2012).

Phase one had a total of 6 movies. All of them are listed below:

·    1. Iron Man (2008)

·    2. The Incredible Hulk (2008)

·    3. Iron Man 2 (2010)

·    4. Thor (2011)

·    5. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

·    6. The Avengers (2012)

PHASE TWO

phase two of the MCU started with Iron Man 3 (2013) and ended with Ant-Man (2015).

Phase two had a total of 6 movies. All of them are listed below:

·    7. Iron Man 3 (2013)

·    8. Thor: The Dark World (2013)

·    9. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

·    10. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

·    11. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

·    12. Ant-Man (2015)

PHASE THREE

phase three of the MCU is the final phase of THE INFINITY SAGA. In this phase, THE INFINITY SAGA ends. Avengers Endgame (2019) is the epic final showdown. Phase three started with Captain America: Civil War (2016) and ended with Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019).

Phase three had a total of 11 movies. All of them are listed below:

·    13. Captain America: Civil War (2016)

·    14. Doctor Strange (2016)

·    15. Guardians of the Galaxy vol.2 (2017)

·    16. Spider-Man Homecoming (2017)

·    17. Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

·    18. Black Panther (2018)

·    19. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

·    20. Ant-man and the Wasp (2018)

·    21. Captain Marvel (2019)

·    22. Avengers: Endgame (2019)

·    23. Spider-man: Far from Home (2019)

And with the end of phase three, MCU's THE INFINITY SAGA ended. All three phases slowly introduced characters the world had never met before. And these movies, either origin stories or epic team-ups, all of them were building a big problem that became more and more visible as the epic showdown came near. All ended in the last two Avengers movies:

Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).

THE MULTIVERSE SAGA PHASE FOUR

MCU's phase four shows us what happens after the events of ENDGAME. That is how all the characters deal with everything that happened in the last few years. As phase four is officially titled 'Guilt and consequences', This theme can be felt in almost every project in phase four. Phase four also had MCU's first tv show.

Phase four started with WandaVision (Disney plus show)(2021) and is still going on with the latest release of Thor: Love and Thunder(2022)

Phase four currently has six movies and seven tv shows, with more coming in upcoming years. All of them are listed below:

·    24. WandaVision(limited) (Disney plus tv show)(9 episodes)(2021)

·    25. Falcon and the Winter soldier(limited) (Disney plus tv show)(6 episodes)(2021)

·    26. Loki(season 1) (Disney plus tv show)(6 episodes)(20210

·    27. Black Widow (2021)

·    28. What If...?(season 1) (Disney plus tv show)(10 episodes)(2021)

·    29. Shang-Shi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

·    30. Eternals (2021)

·    31. Hawkeye(limited) (Disney plus tv show)(6 episodes)(2021)

·    32. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

·    33. Moon Knight(limited) (Disney plus tv show)(6 episodes)(2022)

·    34. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

·    35. Ms Marvel(limited) (Disney plus tv show)(6 episodes)(2022)

·    36. Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

The following is all that is announced and will release in upcoming months and years. (NOTE: some of the following content is not in the proper order of release as the release dates might get swapped or changed in the future)

    .  37. I Am Groot (animated Disney plus tv show)(10, Aug 2022)

           (5 shorts)

    .  38. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (Disney plus tv show)

           (17, Aug 2022)(9 episodes)

    .  39. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (11, Nov 2022)

and with this phase 4 of the MCU ends and phase 5 starts.

PHASE FIVEphase five of the MCU will reportedly start with Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023) and end with Thunderbolts (2024). MCU's phase five will be 18 months long.

.  40. Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (17, Feb 2023)

.  41. Secret Invasion (Disney plus tv show) (Spring 2023)       (episodes TBA)

.  42. Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3(5, May 2023)

.  43. Echo (Disney plus tv show)(Summer 2023)(episodes TBA)

.  44. Loki(season 2) (Disney plus tv show)(6 episodes)

.  45. The Marvels (28, July 2023)

.  46. Blade (3, Nov 2023)

.  47. Iron Heart (Fall 2023)(episodes TBA)

.  48. Agatha: Coven of Chaos formerly known as Agatha: House of Harkness (Disney plus tv show)(Winter 2023/2024)

.  49. Daredevil: Born Again (Spring 2024)(18 episodes)

.  50. Captain America: New World Order (3, May 2024)

.  51. Thunderbolts (26, July 2024)

and this marks the end of phase five.

PHASE SIX

phase six of the MCU is the last phase of THE MULTIVERSE SAGA.

phase six starts with Fantastic Four(2024)and ends with Avengers: Secret Wars(2025)

.  52. TBA (Fall 2024)

.  53.Fantastic Four (8, Nov 2024)

.  54. TBA (Fall 2024)

.  55. TBA (Winter 2024)

.  56. TBA (Winter 2024)

.  57. TBA (Winter 2025)

.  58. TBA (Spring 2025)

.  59. TBA (Spring 2025)

.  60. Avengers: The Kang Dynasty (2, May 2025)

.  61. TBA (Summer 2025)

.  62. TBA (Summer 2025)

.  63. Avengers: Secret Wars (7, Nov 2025)

and that marks the end of Phase 6 along with THE MULTIVERSE SAGA.

the following contains all the rumored or announced but not given a date. (NOTE: THE FOLLOWING IS NOT IN RELEASE ORDER)

·  Untitled Mutants movie(TBA) 

·  Deadpool 3(TBA)(confirmed) 

·  Guardians of the Galaxy: Holiday Special(December 2022)(confirmed)

·  Armor Wars (TBA) 

·  Marvel Zombies(TBA)(confirmed) 

·  Silk(TBA) 

·  Spider-Man Freshman Year (2024)(confirmed) 

·  Wakanda(TBA)

.  What if...?(season 2)(Early 2023)(confirmed)

.  X-Men'97(continued)(Fall 2023)(confirmed)

.  What if...?(season 3)(TBA)(confirmed)

.  Spider-Man Somophore Year (TBA)(confirmed)

.  X-Men'97(season 2)(TBA)(confirmed)

_____________________________________________________________________Following is the explanation and summary of every movie and TV show that has already been released. and there is cast and other confirmed or rumored stuff about unreleased projects.

PHASE ONE

1.    IRON MAN (2008)

Iron Man is MCU's first movie. Directed by Jon Favreau and written by Mark Fergus; Hawk Ostby; Art Marcum; Matt Holloway. The lead character of Tony Stark/Iron man is played by the most talented Robert Downey Jr, followed by Jon Favreau who played Happy Hogan, Gwyneth Paltrow who played Pepper Pots, Terrence Howard who played James Rhodes, Paul Bettany voices the AI assistant J.A.R.V.I.S and finally, the villain of the movie Iron Monger/Obadiah Stane is played by Jeff Bridges.

Iron Man has one of the finest origin stories I have ever seen. (THIS IS STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS)

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nat & steve in issue 10

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Marvel Legends 2018 in Review: A Lot of Product and a lot of Love Here we are at the end of 2018, its had its ups and downs as the days passed but one of those ups was the Marvel Legends 2018 lineup.

#10 Years #10th Anniversary #2018 #Action Figure #Ant-Man #Apocalypse #Avengers #Black Panther #Collection #Comics #Deadpool #Fantastic Four #Hasbro #Hero Club #Line #Lineup #Marvel #Marvel Legends #Marvel Studios #Marvel Studios 10 Years #MCU #Monster Venom #Review #Rundown #SDCC #Soundout #Soundout Productions #Soundout Review #Soundout12 #Spider-Man

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Tom Holland in the Wild and Woeful Cherry: Exclusive First Look

Cherry is a movie that dares you to try and describe it in a few lines. It’s the first film that Anthony and Joe Russo have directed following their Avengers finales, Infinity War and Endgame, and it reunites them with Spider-Man star Tom Holland. It also compresses their penchant for large-scale action and cataclysm into the core of a single person.

Holland’s title character is both volatile and vulnerable, a hard-knock nobody from Cleveland who’s just scraping by but doesn’t even have any big dreams to guide him. Every solution to his problems only deepens the trouble: College isn’t working out, so Cherry joins the Army to serve in Iraq as a medic. He returns home haunted and damaged, and starts abusing opioids to blunt his PTSD. To pay for the drugs, he resorts to bank robbery. The more desperate he gets, the more banks he has to rob.

It’s tempting to call this film, which hits theaters first on February 26 and then premieres globally on Apple TV+ on March 12, a smaller, more intimate project from the brothers who made some of Marvel’s most grandiose films. It’s definitely a passion project for them. But Cherry is also a sprawling tale that ventures around the world, albeit locked within the mind of Holland’s sweet-natured, grimly addicted bandit.

“We do think about it as an epic film, and it is very much a person’s life journey,” said Anthony Russo. “But it does have a little bit of a split personality between being this character study and an epic life cycle.”

They described Cherry as six movies in one, spanning from the mid 2000s to the present. “He travels a great distance over a 15-year period,” Joe Russo said. “The movie’s broken up into six chapters that reflect those different periods, and each one has a different tone. It’s shot with different lenses, different production design. One’s got magical realism. Another chapter is absurdism. Another is horror…There’s a bit of gonzo in it. It’s raw in its tone. He’s a character in existential crisis.”

Based on the 2018 novel by Nico Walker, the screenplay was written by the filmmakers’ sister,  Angela Russo-Otstot (V, The Shield), and Jessica Goldberg (The Path). “The book was very, very self-aware, self-deprecating, and self-loathing,” Joe said.

They felt a strong connection, even if the story doesn’t necessarily mirror their own. It’s close enough: “We’re from Cleveland and Nico’s from Cleveland. Interestingly enough, we know a lot of people that are implied in the book,” Joe added. “I think he’s fictionalized names and personalities. But I worked at the same restaurant that Nico worked at, 10 years apart. So he had a very similar upbringing to us. He just had a very different journey than we did.”

The Russos also wanted to tell a story about the people back home who are hurting. “Ohio is unfortunately at ground zero in the fight against the opioid crisis. And we’ve got a lot of people in our family that have either passed on or died from the crisis, or are struggling with their current addiction. So, this is a very, very personal movie for us.”

The one bright spot in Cherry’s life is Emily (Ciara Bravo, A Teacher), whose devotion to the love of her life may reveal her own self-destructive tendencies. While she’s the stabilizing thing he clings to, the only pure thing in his life, Cherry’s reckless actions threaten to destroy her too.

“The love story is the central spine of the film,” Anthony said. “Without that relationship in the movie, it all falls apart for him. We knew that we needed to make her presence and her character glow in the moments that we did have with her.”

“We really wanted someone that embodied that sense of innocence for him. It was a dream girl, the girl next door,” Joe said.

That’s a quality Holland also brings to the screen, from his breakthrough as a resilient kid trying to survive a tsunami in 2012’s The Impossible to his “aw, shucks” approach to Peter Parker in the Marvel films. With Cherry, the 24-year-old weaponizes that boyishness, allowing it to be battered and bruised and blasted off of him by the harshest things life can throw at a person.

The Russo brothers know this might sound like a turnoff. That’s why they wanted the role to go to Holland, whom they had successfully lobbied to get the part of Spider-Man in 2016’s Civil War.

“When Tom walked into the room…what, six years ago? He was younger, raw. His charisma just blew us away. There was an effortless charm to him,” Anthony said. “As an actor, that is very difficult to replicate. He’s just so likable. We knew for this part we were going to need someone of Tom’s charisma to keep the audience from shutting down during the darker parts of the film.”

“This is a movie that’s supposed to define the experience of having PTSD, the experience of being addicted to opioids,” Joe added. “And the mission of the film is to generate empathy, not to generate disdain, not to indict. It was critical that you empathize with his struggle and his journey because a lot of people are going through this, and they’re having a very human experience. I think empathy is in incredibly short supply right now in the world. And it’s a tragedy.”

As it traversed a decade and a half, Cherry also gave Holland a chance to show a more somber screen presence. “Tom is a nice person. He is, but he doesn’t let himself get trapped by that. He’s a seeker, he’s an artist, he’s always looking, running after complicated things in life,” Anthony said. “He’s a young actor, right? We haven’t seen him do that much up to this point. This is definitely something he’s had within him the whole time. We just haven’t been able to see it yet.“

Joe and I were surprised ourselves to see how thoroughly committed he was to every facet of that character,” he added. “The darkest, most difficult sides of that character, he really embraced them and ran at them and tried to give them life within himself in a way that not a lot of people could pull off.”

#cherry #articles #tom holland #long post

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Tom Hiddleston Filmography - A Review

A list of everything Tom Hiddleston has been in, according to IMDB, and I will be watching each one and reviewing it here! A lot of his stuff was super obscure, and he did lots of shorts, so I have excluded those. I also do not include voice acting, only live action.

1) Loki (2021) Disney+

I'm actually only on episode four, so I don't have a thorough review, but so far it's so good. Love Loki, but something feels weird. Maybe bc I prefer him as Thor Loki, all dressed in his robes and shit, but I still think it's really good. 10/10 Tom Hiddleston overall. 9/10 show.

Alright, after finishing the show and analyzing it, I would like to change my rating to 5/10. 10/10 Tom. Tom is always great, it wasn't his fault how Loki was portrayed here and he did well with what he got. Now, the show? Ass. Like, the whole Sylki thing was meh, boring to give him a female love interest when he's canonically bi, but also the self incest? Fucking weird. His outfit? Trash, put him in his fucking Loki robes. Mobius, man, you coulda been good, but here you are torturing and insulting Loki just like everyone else. Loki just needs someone who shows him true and genuine care and trust. Not whatever the fuck Mobius and Sylvie was doing. This show was not about Loki Loki, it was about Sylvie

2) Avengers: Endgame (2019) Disney+

Need to re-watch, but such a good movie. Tragic, devastating, but so good. 10/10.

3) Leading Lady Parts (2018) (I forgot to remove this)

4) Avengers: Infinity War (2018) Disney+

Again, need to re-watch but 10/10.

5) Thor: Ragnarok (2017) Disney+

Pretty sure this is everyone's favorite Thor movie, and I agree. So fucking good. I need to re-watch it, but it gets an 11/10.

6) Kong: Skull Island (2017) HBO Max

7) The Night Manager (2016) Amazon Prime Video

8) Crimson Peak (2015) Netflix

Shame about the incest. But I enjoyed this movie a lot. I love him in this time period, lawd. I don't really care for the female lead, I don't remember her name but she irks me for no reason. But Tom? Damn, damn, damn. 9/10. Sorry, the incest cost this a point.

9) High-Rise (2015) Amazon Prime Channels

Hm. Um. Hm. So, I get the point of the movie, capitalism sucks, the high levels looking down at the low levels, chaos happens but everyone is still stuck in the capitalist system (the high-rise) and yeah. Maybe I’m just simple-minded, but it wasn’t my favorite movie lol. It was so chaotic, abstract, and dystopian and I’m just not into movies like that. But, for what it was, I think it was good and an interesting symbolism for capitalism. It was just fucking wild. You really gotta use big brain energy to follow and keep up with the metaphors, but it was good. Tommy boy always looking like a snack, we see his badonky, love that. He did really well, I think he captured the essence of the film and portrayed the emotions and character well. 10/10 Tom, 7/10 movie. Also, love to see Bard--I mean, Luke Evans. Love him.

10) I Saw the Light (2015) Amazon Buy or Rent

11) Muppets Most Wanted (2014) Amazon Buy or Rent

I have seen this movie, but I couldn't tell you a thing about it and honestly, I don't care enough about the Muppets to buy it. I'm sure it was good, but who knows.

12) Coriolanus (2014) ?

13) Thor: The Dark World (2013) Disney+

Need to re-watch. Everyone's least favorite Thor movie, but honestly, I loved it. I love all Marvel movies and didn't think this was bad at all.

14) Exhibition (2013) Amazon Buy or Rent

15) Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) Amazon Buy or Rent

16) Friend Request Pending (2012) Amazon Buy or Rent

17) The Hollow Crown (2012) Amazon Buy

18) The Avengers (2012) Disney+

The OG, love love love. Everything about this movie is wonderful. God I love Loki.

19) War Horse (2011) HBO Max

20) The Deep Blue Sea (2011) AMC+ (Amazon)

Hm, interesting. I liked it, Tom Hiddleston is so fantastic. He really showed a range of acting skill here and it was so good. The raw emotions he showcased and just those little facial expressions really made this incredible. We do get to see some badonky, that’s always a plus. His skin is so smooth and looks so soft...but anyway, his acting ability is just so amazing, I love him so much. 10/10 Tom, 7/10 movie.

21) Midnight in Paris (2011) IMDB TV (Amazon)

22) Thor (2011) Disney+

Great, fantastic, wonderful, breathtaking. Lovely movie.

23) Archipelago (2010) AMC+ (Amazon)

24) Wallander (2008-2010) DVD

25) Cranford (2009) BritBox (Amazon)

26) Unrelated (2007) Amazon Buy or Rent

27) Suburban Shootout (2006-2007) DVD

28) Miss Austen Regrets (2007) DVD (or BritBox - Amazon)

Aww, Tom is such a cutie in this movie!! Young babyyyyyyyyy. Great movie, I love period pieces, especially Jane Austen stories so this was good! He was really good in this role, I want more of him in historical pieces!! Not a lot of screen time tho, shame.

29) Casualty (2007) BritBox (Amazon)

30) Victoria Cross Heroes (2006) Youtube

31) A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets (2005) ?

32) The Gathering Storm (2002) HBO Max

33) Armadillo (2001) BritBox

34) Conspiracy (2001) HBO Max

35) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (2001) DVD

#tom hiddleston #avengers #loki #marvel #crimson peak #thomas sharpe #high-rise #the deep blue sea #miss austen regrets

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On this day (July 4) in Sharon Carter history, Sharon appeared in:

Avengers Vs. X-Men #7 (2012)

Avengers Vs. X-Men #7 [Variant A] (2012)

Avengers Vs. X-Men #7 [Variant B] (2012)

Avengers Vs. X-Men #7 [Variant C] (2012)

Avengers Vs. X-Men #7 [Variant D] (2012)

Avengers Vs. X-Men #7 [Variant E] (2012)

Captain America V9 #1 (2018)

Captain America V9 #1 [Variant A] (2018)

Captain America V9 #1 [Variant B] (2018)

Captain America V9 #1 [Variant C] (2018)

Captain America V9 #1 [Variant D] (2018)

Captain America V9 #1 [Variant E] (2018)

Captain America V9 #1 [Variant F] (2018)

Captain America V9 #1 [Variant G] (2018)

Captain America V9 #1 [Variant H] (2018)

Captain America V9 #1 [Variant X16] (2018)

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Captain America V9 #1 [Variant X36] (2018)

Captain America V9 #1 [Variant X37] (2018)

Captain America V9 #1 [Variant Z] (2018)

Marvel Super Action #10 (Reprint Captain America #108) (1978)

#sharon carter #agent 13 #captain america #steve rogers #avengers vs x-men #matt fraction #olivier coipel #ta nehisi coates #leinil francis yu

[nastya-9990]

Сегодня мы поговорим об ещё одном фильме, и это "Чёрная Вода". Этот фильм идёт в промежутке с первой части "Мстители: война бесконечности" мы узнаем о главной, героине Наташи Романофф и узнаем, как она жила до мстителе, и как туда попала многие из вас уже смотрели, так что я перехожу к фактам, о фильме.

Кратко

Наташе Романофф предстоит лицом к лицу встретиться со своим прошлым. Чёрной Вдове придется вспомнить о том, что было в её жизни задолго до присоединения к команде Мстителей, и узнать об опасном заговоре, в который оказываются втянуты её старые знакомые — Елена, Алексей (известный как Красный Страж) и Мелина.

Факты.

1) Застёжные на запястье шокеры Black Widow окрашены в желтый цвет. Это дань уважения классическому костюму Наташи Романовой «Чёрной вдовы», который был полностью черным костюмом с желтыми браслетами.

2) Главными претендентами на роль Елены Беловой стали Эмма Уотсон, Saoirse Ronan, Элис Энглерт, Дар Зузовский и Флоренс Пью, фронтбегунья — Уотсон. В конце концов, Пью был брошен. По словам продюсеров, они увидели ее выступление в роли Сарайи-Джейд Бевис в «Боба с мёй семьей» (2019), что дало дополнительное преимущество за ее кастингом.

3) Скарлетт Йоханссон и Marvel несколько раз проявляли интерес к потенциальному сольному фильму «Чёрная вдова» за предыдущие 10 лет, до того как в 2018 году были приняты на работу Жака Шеффера и Кейт Шортленд, несмотря на то, что Шортленд не имел опыта в режиссуре крупных бюджетных экшн-фильмов.

4) В фильме Алексей Шостаков (Red Guardian) — отцов-фигура Наташи Романов (Черная вдова). В оригинальных комиксах Алексей и Наташа были мужем и женой.

5) 6 июля 2020 года было объявлено, что руководители Marvel Studios, включая Кевина Фейге, были настолько впечатлены выступлением Флоренс Пью в роли Елены Беловой, что планируют включить её в будущие фильмы MCU, и она может даже стать новой Черной вдовой. Фактически Фейдж заявил, что этот фильм был написан для демонстрации Беловой в той же степени, что и Наташа Романофф Скарлетт Йоханссон.

Today we're going to talk about another movie, and that's Black Water. This movie comes in between with the first part of "Avengers: Infinity War" we learn about the main, heroine Natasha Romanoff and find out how she lived before Avengers, and how she got there many of you have already watched, so I will move on to the facts, about the movie.

Briefly

Natasha Romanoff will have to face her past. The Black Widow will have to remember what was in her life long before joining the Avengers team, and learn about a dangerous conspiracy in which her old acquaintances - Elena, Alexei (known as the Red Guardian) and Melina - find themselves drawn into.

Facts.

1) Black Widow's wristlock tasers are colored yellow. This is an homage to Natasha Romanova's classic Black Widow costume, which was an all-black costume with yellow bracelets.

2) The main contenders for the role of Elena Belova were Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan, Alice Englert, Dar Zuzovsky and Florence Pugh, frontrunner - Watson. In the end, Pugh was dropped. According to producers, they saw her performance as Saraya-Jade Bevis in "Bob and My Family" (2019), which gave an extra edge behind her casting.

3) Scarlett Johansson and Marvel had expressed interest in a potential "Black Widow" solo film several times over the previous 10 years before Jacques Schaeffer and Kate Shortland were hired in 2018, despite Shortland having no experience directing big-budget action films.

4) The film features Alexei Shostakov (Red Guardian) as the paternal figure of Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow). In the original comics, Alexei and Natasha were husband and wife.

5) On July 6, 2020, it was announced that Marvel Studios executives, including Kevin Feige, were so impressed with Florence Pugh's performance as Helena Belova that they plan to include her in future MCU films, and she may even become the new Black Widow. In fact, Feige stated that this film was written to showcase Belova in the same way as Scarlett Johansson's Natasha Romanoff.

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Spider-Man will come to Marvel’s Avengers in early 2021. He’ll arrive with a free post-launch update that will include an all-new mission chain and storyline centered around a new villain.

“It’s never been a better time to be a spider-fan!” wrote Crystal Dynamics associate art director Jeff Adams in a post on the PlayStation Blog. The team at Crystal Dynamics, along with our partners, are overjoyed that we get to be a part of this hero’s gaming journey. We can’t wait for you to add Spider-Man to your Marvel’s Avengers roster in early 2021, and as we’ve promised before, he will be available at no additional cost to owners of the base game, exclusively on PlayStation.”

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The Spider-Man coming to Marvel’s Avengers is a brand new take on the character that has not appeared in any other games, movies, or comics. Crystal Dynamics’ take on Peter Parker will be entirely original. Not much is known about their implementation of the wall-crawler into their evolving world, but some tidbits about the character have been shared on the PlayStation Blog.

He’ll have a wide array of abilities and skills to unlock like the rest of the game’s roster. You’ll be able to alter his Heroic Abilities and Ultimate Ability with different tweaks and modifiers in a similar manner to the other heroes in the game. He’ll also have access to the full Avengers arsenal, including the latest tech from Marvel’s greatest minds like Tony Stark and Hank Pym.

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In true superhero fashion, there will also be a vast array of Spider-Man suits to unlock. The team at Crystal Dynamics is taking heavy inspiration from classic Spider-Man artists like Steve Ditko and John Romita Sr. to design the base suit, but there is sure to be more costumes than just the classic red and blues when he releases. Every hero in Marvel’s Avengers right now has several skins and costumes that pull from different corners of Marvel history, and the webhead will likely be no different.

“It’s not enough for Spider-Man to just play like he should… he also needs to look like he should. That’s why when going through the process of conceptualizing his suit, we went back to the beginning. Steve Ditko set the standard with his Spider-Man design, and John Romita Sr. evolved it into an icon recognized the world over. Fans can expect to see Ditko and Romita’s influence in our take on the hero, with nods to other talented artists that have defined the character’s look over his long history.”

Spider-Man is coming to Marvel’s Avengers in early 2021.

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Press/Gallery: Elizabeth Olsen Is Ready to Lead the MCU

An ambitious new Disney+ series might just give the strongest Avenger the happy ending she deserves.

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  ELLE: We can’t keep meeting Elizabeth Olsen like this. By “this,” I mean in the throes of catastrophe or bereavement, or, to put it plainly, when she’s an emotional wreck. In the 2018 Facebook Watch drama Sorry For Your Loss, Olsen assumes the role of Leigh Shaw, a young widow grappling with the unexpected loss of her husband and all the painful nuisances that come with death: the unbearable waves of sadness, the clichéd condolences, a grief support group that runs out of donuts. At one point, Leigh says through a cracked voice, “I’m just mad all the time.” It’s hard not to draw parallels to Olsen’s other angry character. After all, “mad” is exactly how 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron introduced us to Wanda Maximoff.

Defined by tragedy since her Marvel debut, Wanda (aka the Scarlet Witch) is an orphan with telekinetic powers. When not saving the world, she spends most of her time onscreen grieving the deaths of her parents, twin brother, or lover. Wanda’s never been allowed to fully exist outside the confines of her grief and anger, but with the launch of WandaVision—Marvel’s foray into serialized content for streaming—she may just be getting the happy ending she deserves.

Partly inspired by The Vision comic book, which follows synthezoid superhero Vision and his family as they move to the suburbs of Washington, D.C., the Disney+ series is an ode to the TV sitcoms we’ve come to love, with Wanda and Vision (Paul Bettany) basking in newlywed bliss—except Vision’s been very dead (killed twice, in fact) since the events of 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War. It’s unclear exactly how these starcrossed characters got to suburbia, but for now, it’s a delight to see the typically solemn duo sink their teeth into slapstick comedy.

“The show is like a blank slate for them,” Olsen tells me over Zoom, her light brown fringe a departure from Wanda’s red waves. The Scarlet Witch’s doleful glare is also long gone; in its place, Olsen’s eyes are wide with excitement. “Wanda and Vision’s journey to this point is a story of pure, innocent love and deep connection with another person,” she explains. “It was also very traumatizing. Tragedy has always been their story. In our show, we kind of wipe that clean and start fresh.”

But Wanda’s complicated past looms over WandaVision. Age of Ultron saw her and her twin brother, Pietro, initially opposing the Avengers (the siblings volunteered for a series of experiments with Hydra—a super evil organization within the MCU—after the deaths of their parents at the hands of Tony Stark’s Stark Industries) before switching sides to help save the Earth. The movie ends in victory for our superheroes, but yet another tragedy for Wanda when Pietro dies in battle. She finds comfort in the arms of Vision, an android created from the remains of Tony’s J.A.R.V.I.S. program, but even that bliss is short-lived. You see, Vision can only live with the help of the Mind Stone, which Mad Titan Thanos needs to take over the universe. In Infinity War, Vision asks Wanda to sacrifice him, and Wanda reluctantly agrees—but Thanos reverses time to gain control of the stone, killing the robot for a second time. Wanda’s pain is palpable: Imagine sacrificing the love of your life to save everyone else, just to watch him brought back to life and killed again—by the very villain you’re trying to defeat.

Though the thrill of playing a character with superhuman abilities is enticing for any actress, Olsen says it was Wanda’s internal battle with mental health that attracted her to the role in the first place. “[Joss Whedon] explained to me that Wanda Maximoff has always been this pillar of the struggle of mental health, from her pain and depression and traumatic experiences to how she completely alters the reality of the comics,” Olsen says of her early conversations with the Age of Ultron director. “The thing I held onto after reading the initial script was that she was not only powerful because of her abilities, but because of her emotions.”

In fact, MCU theorists would argue she’s one of, if not the, strongest Avenger. She can infiltrate the others’ minds to reveal their biggest fears (Age of Ultron). She can overpower Vision and send him plunging through several floors to break up a fight between warring superheroes (Avengers: Civil War). She can even bring Thanos to his knees, snapping his sword in half and forcibly removing his armor piece by piece (Infinity War).

Still, “they keep slapping her over the head with more grief,” Olsen quips.

As phase one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe began with the sound of clanging metal on May 2, 2008, phase four kicked off on January 15, 2021 with a kitschy 1950s sitcom theme: “She’s a magical gal in a small town locale / he’s a hubby who’s part machine / How will this duo fit in and pull through? Oh, by sharing a love / like you’ve never seen.”

With WandaVision, Marvel steers clear of the typical superhero trappings: no destructive battles at a Berlin airport or across the streets of New York City; no blonde-haired god time-traveling to other realms; no tree-like alien fight alongside a raccoon. Wandavision takes place after the events of Endgame in a fictional suburban town called Westview, and the biggest problem the newlyweds face in the show’s opening moments is creating a convincing backstory to get nosy neighbor Agnes (Kathryn Hahn) off their backs.

“They are just trying to fit in,” Olsen explains. “They’re trying to not be found out by their neighbors that they’re super-powered beings.” Now, if only we can figure out what the hell is actually going on. Olsen remains tight-lipped: “The reason it’s a sitcom shows itself later in the show,” she hints. “When Kevin [Feige] told me, it didn’t feel so bizarre. It felt like a great way to start our story.”

“With our show, you don’t know what the villain is, or if there is one at all.”

So, is Wanda stuck in the first stage of grief, denial? Has she altered reality as a coping mechanism for Vision’s death? Is she being held hostage by a terrorist organization (ahem, Hydra!)? One thing we do know is that someone is watching the couple and taking notes. At the end of episode 1, the camera pans out from a retro TV playing an episode of WandaVision (meta!) to show a hand jotting down notes. There’s a strange sword symbol on the notebook and a nearby control board, and in episode 2, the same sign appears on a toy helicopter lodged in the couple’s front yard. Later, when a mysterious beekeeper crawls out of the sewer on the couple’s street, the symbol is seen on the back of his suit. In its 20-plus movies, Marvel villains have always existed in plain sight. But with a new, less obvious darkness lurking at every turn, Wanda may have to return to her world-saving roots.

“Someone said to me when you watch any of these hero movies, you know when the villain’s about to show themselves, and you also have an idea of who the villain is,” Olsen says. “With our show, you don’t know what the villain is, or if there is one at all.” For now, WandaVision allows for glimmers of hope and optimism for Wanda and Vision, despite what darkness tries to threaten their happiness. “Wanda is trying to protect everything in her bubble, protect what she and Vision have and this experience,” Olsen says. “I think everything she does is in response to keeping things together.”

In addition to exploding the concept of the superhero onscreen, WandaVision toys with a different era of TV in each episode. The pilot takes viewers to the ‘50s with an episode filmed in front of a live studio audience, and Wanda dresses up in the quintessential housewife garb, not a hair out of place in her voluminous bob. By the time we click on episode 2, she trades in her apron and kitten heels for a more pared-down ‘60s look, while episode 3 gives a nod to the ‘70s, complete with a Brady Bunch-style staircase and a shag haircut for Vision.

While dressing up was the fun part, time-hopping through the eras required a lot of binge-watching old sitcoms to get the mannerisms down right. Olsen studied series like The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Brady Bunch, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Bewitched to “understand the tones of each era” and get a grasp of how Wanda and Vision should act as a couple. (One of her favorite TV pairings was Jane Kaczmarek and Bryan Cranston from Malcolm in the Middle.) She was fascinated by the way female characters evolved through the decades: “You have to learn appropriate manners—what’s considered being polite or proper. That coincides with women’s voices changing,” she explains. “I enjoyed challenging myself to match the syntax and the lyricism. I live in a very chest-register kind of deep voice. I had to remember not to bring it up at certain moments.”

For so long, Wanda served as a supporting character to Marvel’s biggest names, and the formulaic mundanity of the major theatrical releases made it easy to get comfortable. WandaVision offered Olsen a much-needed challenge. “I’ve only been working for 10 years, but there is this feeling where you start to get comfortable,” she says. “WandaVision was the furthest thing from comfortable for me. It felt intimidating. The character is a completely different thing.”

And fans hoping for a little Marvel action won’t be disappointed. “We still live up to what Marvel does,” she promises. “We just tell the story in a completely different way. It’s a very emotional, female story and it’s a story they haven’t told yet for either of our characters.” Whatever your theory is, keep the cliché condolences to yourself. No one will be uttering, “Sorry for your loss” in Wanda’s world.

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