Marvel Undergoes Layoffs Amid Companywide Disney Cuts

I'm genuinely surprised anyone upvoted them honestly. They say it’s still good while avoiding most of it, which is a wild thing to say in general.

> So you disagree that the “magic” has been destroyed by… ignoring the shows that have been bad? I explained which shows appealed to me, and watched that and I think the magic is there. Imagine if you like horror and call yourself an A24 fan. If you watch every single movie, short film, tv show and documentary they produce then you will get bored, oversaturated and see the cracks at the seams. But if youjust decide to watch a few things that appeal to you, they still feel like events. You can like Zone of interest, Past lives and Aftersun and not be there for Beau is Afraid, everything everywhere all at once or The whale. Consuming all of it and blaming the studio rather than your own consuming habits seems misplaced. Disney used to only make movies aimed at the 7-20 crowd because it has the largest market share. Now they make shows for 0-5, 5-10, 7-20, 12-35, 18-90. There is more variety, in content and in target audience as well as in quality. You could focus on the demo you are on, and if something gets to you either through interest or word of mouth try something a bit more out there. but I think once the old republic lore was introduced the idea of star wars as this tiny franchise that only focused on the Skywalker family kinda crumbled for a big part of the more plugged in audience. So if the universe is vast, you gotta pilot to the good bits and not keep hitting asteroids

> That once you have access to the full buffet But you can make choices here. If you put a croissant on top of the goulash and say the dinner tastes like shit, the chef has a right to say you kinda did this to yourself > I think what others are trying to say is that these movies used to feel special. They used to be events. and yet the best thing in decades Andor was completely under the radar. If you are saying that as an adult you want disney to recreate the magic you felt as a child. I am here to break the news to you, that you cant. Childlike wonder is a thing and you lose it when you become older, trying to get that hit back is how people die trying to get their first high again with heroin. Dont chase the dragon. Marvel movies came out every year and where an event, because they were quality. Something being good creates an audience. Focus on making it good and everything else will take care of itself > I want one really good meal once in awhile instead of all I can eat buffet steak. But that good meal exists, if you filled yourself up with chicken nuggests you are going to not be as hungry

Moon knight is a terrible adaptation of moon knight. A not particularly good comic/super hero show. And has a couple positive points of showcasing egypt and DID.

That’s the really annoying thing, they are, but the selection is kind of slim right now and despite being for sale over the past year or so, I’ve not actually seen any of them in stores. They are slightly larger in size with high-quality paper and retail at $15 each. IDW also seem to have started a similar line although the only one of their that I’ve seen so far has been a collection of the first two Locke and key books

$1 billion for Doomsday will be a huge loss. RDJ and the Russo's are getting $90M between them for Doomsday alone before all the rest of the cast salaries are included.

"1/3rd of a billion" Buddy just say 300 million. And 300 million isn't exactly unprecedented for any movie.

> Thunderbolts managed over 1/3rd of a billion with a very deliberate emphasis on using 2nd tier or even 3rd tier heroes in terms of popularity. That movie was literally a huge box office flop, not exactly the best example there... same with Cap America 4 but to a slightly lower extent

Totally agree, often theres still really incredible writers in there but they get buried by the corporate suits and their egos. Once Marvel stopped operating as its own entity and was fully restructured under Disney in late 2015 it fell off a cliff. The timing makes sense with End Game releasing a few years after and then everything being beyond lackluster since.

"he gets to film Shang- Chi 2".... you´re being very optimistic, if doomsday fails, the mcu is probobly going to get rebooted. in the best case they will park the MCU and go the way of the X-Men.

I give BP2 a pass because of the extenuating circumstances. I do think they should have just recast him, but I understand that fans would have flipped out and any worthwhile actor probably wouldn't want to deal with that and living up to Boseman's BP. Just a tough situation.

I would say the same. It was definitely more of a return to form, its just too bad it took so long to get back to there.

Visually it was cool, but the characters and plot were ridiculously lame. We got mopey Mr fantastic who used his powers like twice, terrible cgi silver surfer, and the rest of the characters were just boring. None of them stood out or wowed. To make matters worse, the whole “magic baby saves everything in the end” was just dumb. The group that I was with all agreed it was a waste of time, and I had given it the highest rating out of all of us.

And the marketing and production costs matched that box office take. Edit: I believe this was the era when they were spending a lot of money on reshoots to change the endings. So that ballooned the budget.

You realise the studios only get 50% of that? that theatre chains take half and that film cost over $300 million before marketing.

well that's hilarious because it means that i'm not the only one who felt this way. still blows my mind that they didn't just make The General played by the walking dead Michonne actress the new black panther.

Thats good for Hickman but they clearly signed on Writers with the idea they would contribute to a new universe. Peach found out on twitter that it had a finale planned. They also clearly got people in with the idea of this being a new universe not a closed story being told for a set period of time.