Tag: Avengers: Endgame
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‘Men in Black’ and ‘Shaft’ to Continue a Summer of Slumping Sequels
While the last two weeks have featured several struggling new releases, and this weekend looks to be no different, the summer movie season is actually up +12.6% compared to last year and currently ranks as the second largest summer movie season of all-time through June 12. However, a lot of that is due to Disney…
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Superhero Bits: Quentin Tarantino’s Favorite McU Movie, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Goes 8-Bit & More
What scene really challenged Sophie Turner emotionally in Dark Phoenix? How many of the Top 100 highest grossing movies ever belong to Marvel Studios? What’s the record for how many times someone saw Avengers: Endgame in theaters? What is Quentin Tarantino‘s favorite McU movie? Want to see an 8-bit video game short from the Guardians…
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‘Marvel’s Avengers: A-Day’ Trailer: The Avengers Are Reassembled in Video Game Form
The Avengers are assembled again and…they look a little different. Months after Avengers: Endgame ended the Avengers as we know them, the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes reassemble in video game form in Square Enix’s highly anticipated Marvel’s Avengers: A-Day. But it feels like they’ve been reassembled slightly wrong, as the superheroes in the Avengers A-Day trailer…
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‘Pets 2’ and ‘Dark Phoenix’ Top Weekend Box Office, Though Both Underperform
The weekend’s top twelve combined to outperform the same weekend last year by more than 43%, which means the year-to-year gap continues to close, but the weekend’s new releases both struggled mightily. Universal and Illumination’s The Secret Life of Pets 2 was unable to even deliver half of the opening the first film delivered just…
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‘Dark Phoenix’ a Disaster and ‘Pets 2’ Disappoints, but ‘Rocketman’ Takes On ‘Godzilla’
We’ve seen a happy pattern in the early summer weeks as a handful of franchise titles soar: “Avengers: Endgame,” “Aladdin,” and “John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum.” They’re doing solid work in cutting the 2019 deficit to around 6% and a little over $300 million. Meanwhile, “The Secret Life of Pets 2” and “Dark Phoenix”…
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Thanos Has Too Strong of a Rectum for Ant-Man to Grow Inside and Kill Him, ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Co-Writer Confirms
In the months leading up to the release of Avengers: Endgame, there was a lot of chatter about a certain method by which The Avengers could have defeated Thanos (Josh Brolin). Some of the more creative (or disturbing) Marvel Cinematic Universe fans out there thought that if Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) could shrink down to a…
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‘Aladdin’ to Fly Past $500 Million at Global Box Office in 15 Days
Disney’s live-action remake of “Aladdin” has entered into a whole new world at the box office. On Thursday, the film will surpass the $500 million mark globally in just 15 days after taking in another $14.7 million worldwide on Wednesday.The film has made over $200 million at the domestic box office, putting it ahead of…
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Thousands of McU Fans Still Outraged Over Tony Stark’s Fate, But Signing A Petition Is Not the Solution
[Editor’s note: The following post contains spoilers about “Avengers: Endgame.”]Petition culture has become all the rage after more than 1.5 million “Game of Thrones” fans mobilized last month to urge HBO to remake the polarizing final season. The latest petition going viral across the internet concerns the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with over 35,000 fans and…
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‘Captain Marvel’ Deleted Scene Robbed McU Fans of Watching Jude Law Act With Jude Law
“Avengers: Endgame” has become one of the biggest films ever over the last month, but it was actually the second Marvel Cinematic Universe movie to break the one billion dollar mark at the box office in 2019. “Captain Marvel” first reached that milestone April 3, and ahead of the film’s Blu-ray launch later this month…
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Sorry Folks, ‘Booksmart’ Was Set Up For Box Office Disappointment & Politicizing It Isn’t Helping
Last weekend’s box office was dominated by Disney’s “Aladdin” remake, “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum,” and “Avengers: Endgame.” All three have the support of a major studio, at least one massive A-list star, and a popular franchise to back them up. And thus, all three have done very well financially. But even with those…