Film News Roundup: Ticket Sales Launch on Brie Larson’s ‘Captain Marvel’

In today’s film news roundup, “Captain Marvel” has begun ticket sales, Yara Shahidi is named an awards ambassador, and SAG-AFTRA has reached an agreement with New York Public Radio.TicketingOnline ticket sellers Fandango and Atom Tickets have launched sales of Brie Larson’s “Captain Marvel” a full two months before the Disney-Marvel tentpole opens.The gap between the start of sales and the opening is among the longest for recent releases.

Black Panther” had a similar two-month launch period last year.

Larson is starring opposite Samuel L.

Jackson, Judde Law, Ben Mendelsohn, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch, Gemma Chan, Annette Bening and Clark Gregg.“Captain Marvel” is directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck from a script by “Inside Out” scribe Meg LeFauve and Nicole Perlman.

The project is based on the Marvel character Carol Danvers, an Air Force pilot whose DNA is fused with

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