https://tvline.com/2022/07/23/mcu-ph...cret-invasion/
Intrigued particularly by Daredevil: Born Again — the Miller/Mazzuchelli series is one of my favorite superhero stories.
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https://tvline.com/2022/07/23/mcu-ph...cret-invasion/
Intrigued particularly by Daredevil: Born Again — the Miller/Mazzuchelli series is one of my favorite superhero stories.
If that's what I think it is then I would agree. Awhile back I asked for comic suggestions around here and the Daredevil one was the one I ended up enjoying the most, despite having no reason to care about the character before that.
For folks that don't click through, there's a little info on Phase 6 at the link as well:
On Thunderbolts: I had to look up who or what that was. It's an anti-hero group that has had a lot of members over the years. Names of people already in the MCU who have been involved include Photon, Venom, Black Widow, Ant-Man, Luke Cage, Deadpool, Punisher, and Winter Soldier. I'm sure they will bring in some new people, but they certainly have enough people on that list to do it already (with Yelena as Black Widow and maybe Cassie standing in for Ant-Man).Quote:
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Trailers that have been released:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlOB3UALvrQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7JsKhI2An0
Write-ups on the other stuff shown:
Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3
Ant-Man 3: Quantumania
Spider-Man Freshman Year (D+ animated)
X-Men '97 (D+ animated)
What If? season two (D+ animated)
Forgot a trailer: I Am Groot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7eFpRf4tac
Well, phase 4 has been...eclectic, but I don't want to judge a painting before it's finished. The "everything is actually all happening at the same time" explanation makes some sense...sort of, and I get that they do need to deal with each character's fallout from Endgame, but I'm really hoping when phases 5 and 6 are done we will be able to look back at phase 4 and go, "How did I not see this coming?" with stuff they've buried in these shows but we just don't have enough context to really understand what the bigger picture is.
I've seen some complaints here and there about the lack of an overarching story for Phase 4, but I don't share the concern. Judge each property on its own merits as a self-contained story -- if Infinity War and Endgame had never happened, it would not have detracted from the quality of any of the MCU movies that preceded them.
The explanation I heard from Feige is that all of the phase 4 movies and shows have been taking place pretty much simultaneously, with the exception of Hawkeye maybe taking place a little bit later (and it, of course, failed to mention the giant dude in the ocean). So, for most of the movies/series, the man coming out of the oceans (and the massive tsunami's his "birth" should have caused), haven't happened yet.
Yeah, I don't really buy it either.
I’m a VFX Artist, and I’m Tired of Getting ‘Pixel-F–ked’ by Marvel
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It’s pretty well known and even darkly joked about across all the visual-effects houses that working on Marvel shows is really hard. When I worked on one movie, it was almost six months of overtime every day. I was working seven days a week, averaging 64 hours a week on a good week. Marvel genuinely works you really hard. I’ve had co-workers sit next to me, break down, and start crying. I’ve had people having anxiety attacks on the phone.
The studio has a lot of power over the effects houses, just because it has so many blockbuster movies coming out one after the other. If you upset Marvel in any way, there’s a very high chance you’re not going to get those projects in the future. So the effects houses are trying to bend over backward to keep Marvel happy.
To get work, the houses bid on a project; they are all trying to come in right under one another’s bids. With Marvel, the bids will typically come in quite a bit under, and Marvel is happy with that relationship, because it saves it money. But what ends up happening is that all Marvel projects tend to be understaffed. Where I would usually have a team of ten VFX artists on a non-Marvel movie, on one Marvel movie, I got two including myself. So every person is doing more work than they need to.
The other thing with Marvel is it’s famous for asking for lots of changes throughout the process. So you’re already overworked, but then Marvel’s asking for regular changes way in excess of what any other client does. And some of those changes are really major. Maybe a month or two before a movie comes out, Marvel will have us change the entire third act. It has really tight turnaround times. So yeah, it’s just not a great situation all around. One visual-effects house could not finish the number of shots and reshoots Marvel was asking for in time, so Marvel had to give my studio the work. Ever since, that house has effectively been blacklisted from getting Marvel work.
Part of the problem comes from the MCU itself — just the sheer number of movies it has. It sets dates, and it’s very inflexible on those dates; yet it’s quite willing to do reshoots and big changes very close to the dates without shifting them up or down. This is not a new dynamic.
I remember going to a presentation by one of the other VFX houses about an early MCU movie, and people were talking about how they were getting “pixel-fucked.” That’s a term we use in the industry when the client will nitpick over every little pixel. Even if you never notice it. A client might say, “This is not exactly what I want,” and you keep working at it. But they have no idea what they want. So they’ll be like, “Can you just try this? Can you just try that?” They’ll want you to change an entire setting, an entire environment, pretty late in a movie.
The main problem is most of Marvel’s directors aren’t familiar with working with visual effects. A lot of them have just done little indies at the Sundance Film Festival and have never worked with VFX. They don’t know how to visualize something that’s not there yet, that’s not on set with them. So Marvel often starts asking for what we call “final renders.” As we’re working through a movie, we’ll send work-in-progress images that are not pretty but show where we’re at. Marvel often asks for them to be delivered at a much higher quality very early on, and that takes a lot of time. Marvel does that because its directors don’t know how to look at the rough images early on and make judgment calls. But that is the way the industry has to work. You can’t show something super pretty when the basics are still being fleshed out.
The other issue is, when we’re in postproduction, we don’t have a director of photography involved. So we’re coming up with the shots a lot of the time. It causes a lot of incongruity. A good example of what happens in these scenarios is the battle scene at the end of Black Panther. The physics are completely off. Suddenly, the characters are jumping around, doing all these crazy moves like action figures in space. Suddenly, the camera is doing these motions that haven’t happened in the rest of the movie. It all looks a bit cartoony. It has broken the visual language of the film.
Things need to change on two ends of the spectrum. Marvel needs to train its directors on working with visual effects and have a better vision out of the gate. The studio needs to hold its directors’ feet to the fire more to commit to what they want. The other thing is unionization. There is a growing movement to do that, because it would help make sure that the VFX houses can’t take bids without having to consider what the impacts would be. Because a lot of the time, it’s like, you get to work on a Marvel show, and you’ll work on that for cheaper just because it’s cool.
Some of the problems I mentioned are universal to every show and every project. But you end up doing less overtime on other shows. You end up being able to push back more on the directors. When they say something like, “Hey, I want this,” you can be like, “This doesn’t make sense.” Not every client has the bullying power of Marvel.
The artist's real beef is not with Marvel, but with his actual employer, i.e., the VFX shop that is desperate to stay in Marvel's good graces. But yeah, the effects people probably should unionize.
Agreed. Unionizing is the only way to force the issue. Otherwise, this is the world they work in now.Quote:
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I don't really have anything to add, I just wanted to say that that Wakanda Forever trailer is great.
In case anyone hasn't seen it yet. Looks cool. I guess this leads into Armor Wars?
https://youtu.be/qZVTkn2NjS0
Lego does it again...
MCU's New Black Panther Seemingly Spoiled in Wakanda Forever LEGO Set
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This looks to be much more in the spirit of Ms. Marvel than anything else, which makes me happy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuk77TjvfmE&t=116s
Ok, between this and Secret Invasion I feel like they are getting their mojo back. Or maybe it was Nick Fury that was missing. Not that their recent stuff has been bad, it just seems....directionless. Like, they have an overall story they want to tell but they can't figure out how to do it. Now with Johnathan Majors' legal issues we may never see the rest of it.
Dead on. The earlier phases had a strong focus: introduce the characters, tie them to the infinity stones, bring them together. This phase has been all over the place, and I see two main issues that have caused that. One, a number of movies were about winding up character arcs, and didn't really contribute to the focus in the other films.Quote:
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Two, the multi-step process to introduce the big bad (Kang) hasn't been as direct. Then: Thanos wants infinity stones (shown to be Powerful Items), will use to do bad things: simple, straightforward. Now: there's an infinite number of other universes, and many of them have produced a time traveler (Kang) who has banded together with all his other multiverse selves to rule over everything: huh? Time travel is messy enough if you don't make it closed loop time travel, and you want to mix that, and a pile of bad guys who are all the same bad guys, but there's not apparently a pile of good guys who are all the same good guys fighting the bad guys and ugh, just, ugh.
Multiverse stuff works in comics, where you can print a million different titles and people can pick and choose which matter to them. It's not so great in a movie series, where everything gets shoehorned into the one series and there's no real way to avoid things. I'm hoping that the Kang stuff gets finished off quickly and the multiverse is abandoned, but I doubt I'll get my wish.
This is the right decision, because brand fatigue and genre fatigue are real:
Disney cuts back on Marvel, Star Wars content (cnbc.com)
I agree. Although Iger's tact while saying this was poor.Quote:
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Heh, "we're going to cut back on film and TV production" would have more punch if it wasn't said during a writer and actor strike that is forcing Disney to cut back on film and TV production.
I did like that he talked about sublicensing, though. I know some things that have been prevented from being shown on other platforms (Batgirl movie, Snowpiercer season 4) were squelched for tax purposes before being shown and can never be licensed to other platforms. But even though there are some tax implications, things like this could easily be put up for other streamers to obtain:
https://variety.com/2023/digital/new...ng-1235631877/
I know they can do this because one of the titles mentioned in the article, Dollface, is currently available to me on Crave, a Canadian streaming service, after being removed from Canadian Disney+. There would have to be economic reasons to do this, like licensing fees at least covering the one-time tax charge and the ongoing residual payments, and perhaps that would prevent a number of titles from ever being resurrected. But the ideological objection - "we don't want to provide our competition with content" - is gone, and I feel like that's been the largest problem.
I hate the whole idea of pulling things off streaming for tax purposes, some shit was barely up a month. And I bet the execs still cry about the stuff being on Pirate Bay even though they have surrendered their claim to make money on it at least from the public perception.
It wasn't an ideological objection, it was a business decision. Legacy entertainment companies were trying to build their own versions of Netflix from scratch quickly, so to accelerate the timeline they not only spent ungodly amounts on new stuff, but also held tightly onto their existing stuff so they could have larger libraries of unique offerings. Why should someone subscribe to Disney+ if they can get all the Disney movies on Netflix?Quote:
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What's happening now is that these guys have decided that becoming the next Netflix is not achievable or at least not worth it -- Netflix had first mover advantages that can't be replicated these days -- so Big Entertainment is back to looking at the good ol' licensing fee model.
Consider the context here. If you feel you can't make any money on an asset, but could by moving it to someone else, not moving the asset is ideological, not business.Quote:
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Yes, but you're ignoring the larger context Big Entertainment had in mind a few years ago: Yes, they could make money licensing something, but they thought they could make more money by selling subscriptions to a library of unique content.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
What they failed to realize is that the environment had changed: Before the mid-to-late 2010s, Netflix was the only ship in the water, so it didn't need much unique content to stand out, and didn't have to pay much, relatively speaking, for that unique content, and could take more time to create it. But by the time Amazon/Disney/Paramount/Comcast set sail on the streaming sea, Netflix was already a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, making life more difficult for everyone else.
You can have a library of unique content and still sell your dogs. Nobody is telling Disney+ to sell off the shows that drive people to subscribe to Disney+.Quote:
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Honestly, the only area where Netflix has a real advantage is in licensing overseas content (anime, Bollywood productions, etc.). Any original content advantage they once had is long gone, and with most of the studios holding onto their own content for their own streaming services they have no real legacy content advantage.Quote:
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They've always been doing that -- even after Disney+ launched, you could catch some Disney-affiliated stuff on cable reruns, and even on other streaming apps such as Starz. The only difference now is how they're defining dogs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
That's now, but Netflix had a huge, established audience by the time significant rivals appeared, so it didn't need a clear advantage anymore, it just needed to not be worse. If I already have plenty of things to watch on Netflix, why should I bother signing up for, say, Disney+? Only have so much time in a day. And in fact, Netflix has kept growing this year while Disney+ has been shrinking.Quote:
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Marvel Studios’ Loki Season 2 | Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dug56u8NN7g
Saw GoG 3 last night on streaming. I liked it, but it's darker than what I've come to expect from the franchise. The tone feels more like Gunn's Suicide Squad than the other GoG movies.
I caught up on a bunch of Marvel stuff in preparation for season 2 of Loki. Most of it was "okay", but Guardians of the Galaxy 3 was great. Kind of hard to watch, but great.
I'm also pretty happy with the first episode of Loki now that it has started.
Oh, and it's apparently two months old but I've only just now seen it, so here is the trailer for The Marvels. I'm optimistic. Is this still phase 5? We don't have a phase 6 thread yet do we?
https://youtu.be/wS_qbDztgVY?si=r8NKJAWUHslETEpG
Phase 5 goes until 2025. The Marvels, Deadpool 3, the new Captain America, Thunderbolts, and Blade are the films tentatively remaining in P5.
It's been entertaining through the first two weeks of Season 2. The show floats on the chemistry between the actors, and that's more than enough to keep me humming along as a viewer.Quote:
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Jonathan Majors’ Accuser Arrested for Misdemeanor Assault and Criminal Mischief, DA Has No Plans to Press Charges
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Grace Jabbari, the woman who has accused Jonathan Majors of attacking her on March 25, has been arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor assault and misdemeanor criminal mischief.
Jabbari was arrested at the 10th precinct in Manhattan on Wednesday. She was released on a desk appearance. The DA has said they will not prosecute her on any charges related to the incident.
Majors faces misdemeanor charges of harassment and assault after being arrested following the alleged domestic violence incident on March 25. Police responded to a 911 call and a 30-year-old woman reported being assaulted by Majors, with police noting that she had sustained minor injuries. Majors was released from police custody later that day.
In June, the Loki actor filed a cross-complaint against Jabbari, alleging that she attacked him that night. His attorney, Priya Chaudhry, has denied all wrongdoing on behalf of her client.
In court documents filed in relations to Majors’ case, prosecutors told police that they will not prosecute Jabbari, citing the belated nature of the allegations for the decision on any charges related to the incident and saying it comes as part of the routine process of evaluating cross complaints in domestic violence cases. Jabbari and her attorney were informed of this decision on Sept. 21.
An investigatory card, or I-Card, which is not an arrest warrant, but is an NYPD document alerting officers that there is probable cause for an arrest, was also issued for Jabbari in late June, the documents state. Prosecutors asked the NYPD to issue Jabbari a desk appearance ticket, which requires her to return to court at a specified date, rather than waiting in custody for an arraignment.
The prosecution had planned to provide travel and lodging to the U.S. for Jabbari, who is a British citizen, in order for her to testify at Majors’ trial, according to the documents.
A trial date of Nov. 29 was set Wednesday for Majors, who virtually attended his hearing in New York Criminal Court. New York Judge Michael Gaffey also denied defense’s motion to dismiss the case.
It'll be interesting to see what Marvel does now with its multi-year plans since it looks like The Marvels is going to bomb harder than the Flash this weekend.
I don't know if this is the right thing to do financially, but purely from a narrative POV, Marvel would be better off focusing its energies on high quality programming for Disney+ and releasing just one movie a year, maybe even every two years, so it always feels like a big event. Otherwise the studio ends up with too many flicks like Dr. Strange 2 that don't stand well on their own, and people sitting in the theater wondering why they paid movie ticket prices for an extended episode of a streaming show.Quote:
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Buddy got our tickets for The Marvels today. 7:30 pm Friday, only theatre in our part of town (200,000 population middle class+ area), and so far we're the only ones in the theatre.
A few days ago my brother went to see that FNAF movie. He said there were only 3 other people in the theater.
Whoa, that Loki ending was awesome to watch after taking an edible
I just watched the Loki finale. I don't get it. What did Loki do?
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I'm pretty happy with that as a finale.
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I also find myself appreciating the effort they went through in maintaining thematic elements throughout the entire season.
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The Marvels is pretty good, but it is decidedly feminine in how it approaches things if that's something that would bother you. And boy does it ever set up the future of the MCU....
Still sucks that some people had to sit through a shitty movie just for the post-credit scene payoff.
I just watched the scenes on youtube and skipped the unrelated throwaway parts.
Welp, I guess I'll have to skip it then, I don't want to get the cooties...Quote:
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Give me all the cooties. In three months, when its on Disney+.
Maybe sooner if it flops hard enough! Go internet hate squad go!
It wasn't shitty. I enjoyed it a lot. But it was "girly", for lack of a better way of describing it. I can see that bothering some people. (Examples of "girly": plot points involving a musical, many cats, scenes where people process emotions, and a joke about writing fan fiction.)Quote:
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Its interesting. My sister and a lot of the women I know loved the first Captain Marvel movie and talked about it a decent bit when it first came out. Now there wasn't a peep about this movie from any of them. I was reading that the ones who saw this one was trending 60%+ men. I guess they completely failed this time while something like Barbie was a huge success with the women demographic.
Marvel Studios Taking Stock of Strategy Amid ‘The Marvels' Meltdown -- The Hollywood Reporter
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The anything-but-marvelous performance of The Marvels is a moment of reckoning for Marvel Studios, the production house that has been the superhero of the box office for much of the past 15 years, since Iron Man burst onto the scene in 2008.
Over the Nov. 10-12 weekend, The Marvels debuted to $46.1 million in North America, the worst opening in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which has raked in more than $30 billion in global movie ticket sales. The 33rd MCU installment was battered by withering audience exit scores and a ho-hum B CinemaScore.
But it wasn't the first warning sign that something was amiss within Marvel in terms of quality control as Feige's team went into overdrive producing shows for streaming; features Eternals and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantamania were also slapped with B CinemaScores, while audiences began complaining about keeping up with an increasing number of shows on Disney+ to understand the overarching MCU story.
Behind the scenes, Marvel Studios and Disney were well aware The Marvels was in trouble before it hit the big screen. There was also a recognition that Feige and his team needed time to take stock of their theatrical tentpoles, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. On Nov. 8, Bob Iger said during on an earnings call that Disney's movie empire has "lost focus" because of an emphasis on quantity over quality in the rush to feed Disney+ under the Bob Chapek regime (though it was Iger himself who initiated this push before Chapek's reign). Feige and his team felt this mandate keenly, to detriment of Marvel's movies, sources say.
A day later, Marvel and Disney revealed they were scaling back the number of superhero films they will release in 2024 from three to one. That news was made at the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, and while the work stoppage, which shut down production on Deadpool 3, is certainly part of the reason for some of the date changes, it wasn't the only one, sources say.
Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool 3 will be Marvel and Disney's sole superhero offering in 2024, and will now open on July 26 instead of May 3. The high-profile threequel, which co-stars Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, is the first Deadpool to be released by Disney since it acquired 20th Century Fox and is also the first R-rated pic to be released by Marvel Studios. The marquee title is described as a multiverse-spanning feature that will set the stage for Marvel's upcoming Avengers movies.
Marvel Studios' Captain America: New World Order, which was previously set to hit theaters July 26, 2024, has been delayed nine months to Feb. 14, 2025, which will give the studio time to shoot additional material. Marvel's antihero-centric movie Thunderbolts, starring Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan, is moving from Dec. 20, 2024, to July 25, 2025.
Among 2025 titles, Blade, starring Mahershala Ali, has been pushed back nine months, moving its release date from Feb. 14, 2025, to Nov. 7, 2025. Both Blade and Thunderbolts were scheduled to go into production this past summer but did not have scripts that were ready in time, so they were shut down amid the writers strike in May. The release-date changes announced Nov. 9 mean that Marvel has four superhero pics set for 2025 when including the Fantastic Four reboot, scheduled for release on May 2 (like Deadpool, Fantastic Four arrived from 20th Century), but that could change.
Rather than being a straight up sequel to the billion-dollar blockbuster Captain Marvel, The Marvels is something of a mashup. In the movie, Larson is joined by Iman Vellani, the breakout star of the Disney+ series Ms. Marvel, as well as WandaVision‘s Teyonah Parris as the grown-up version of Captain Marvel character Monica Rambeau. Mixing and matching characters for sequels is a game plan Marvel has used in the past on films like Captain America: Civil War, which featured nearly every Marvel character imaginable, but to much different results, grossing $1.15 billion in 2016.
"Why not simply make Captain Marvel 2? Why produce The Marvels when your audience identified, empathized, and even hero-identified with Brie Larson's character? More importantly, why offer people similar or the same characters and stories that are on Disney+ if you expect them to go to a theater together? Disney/Marvel diluted their product," says one film producer. "Of course, a picture works or fails for other reasons too, but losing so much value picture-over-picture is rare and hard to do."
Captain Marvel debuted to $153.4 million in North America on its way to earning a massive $1.13 billion worldwide, not adjusted for inflation. To be sure, that movie had a clear advantage in that it was teased in the post-credit scene of 2018's Avengers: Infinity War, while its titular star was a player in 2019's Avengers: Endgame (it was released between the two Marvel mega-blockbusters).
Until now, rival DC was the superhero studio that endured the biggest ups and downs, with a good number of its films opening to $50 million or less (in comparison, many MCU releases started with $100 million or more domestically). This summer, DC's The Flash debuted to a dismal $55 million domestically on its way to topping out at a paltry $270.6 million globally.
Notes Comscore box office analyst Paul Dergarabedian, "the uneven performance of all superhero films in recent years should be a wake-up call in terms of how these films are conceived, executed and marketed moving forward."
Marvel Studios’ What If…? Season 2 | Official Trailer | Disney+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiEVqZ2Bc_c
The unspoken subtext is that Kevin Feige has spread himself too thin:Quote:
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Disney CEO Bob Iger says ‘No. 1 priority’ is turning around Marvel, acknowledges ‘too many sequels’ after box office misses
The actress that played X-23 in Logan will show up in Deadpool 3 as an older X-23, along with many other continuity crossovers.
Deadpool 3: Wolverine X-23 Returns Breakdown and Teaser Easter Eggs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLgNOm6MlTs
They're also introducing new X-men variants to introduce the rebooted younger X-men of the future movies.
Marvel Studios’ WHAT IF…? Season 2 — FINAL TRAILER | Disney+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbk3aDwMJAQ
Marvel won’t move forward with Jonathan Majors after he’s found guilty of assault
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A New York jury on Monday found actor Jonathan Majors guilty of assault and harassment of his former girlfriend during a domestic dispute.
Majors, a rising star who has appeared in Disney’s Marvel franchise and “Creed III,” was convicted on Monday of one count of reckless assault in the 3rd degree and a non-criminal charge of harassment as a violation.
He was acquitted on another assault charge and one count of aggravated harassment.
Majors, who was present in court on Monday, held a straight a face while the verdict was being read. He left the courthouse without commenting to members of the media.
In a statement to CNN on Monday afternoon, Priya Chaudhry, an attorney for Majors, said he “still has faith in the process and looks forward to fully clearing his name.”
Shortly after news of the verdict, a source with knowledge of the matter told CNN that Marvel Studios would not be moving forward on any future projects with Majors, who was set to star as the villainous Kang in the upcoming “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.”
A representative for Marvel declined to comment when reached by CNN.
The jury in the case deliberated for about four and a half hours total before reaching a verdict.
The trial, which began on December 4, stems from a March domestic dispute involving Majors and his former girlfriend, Grace Jabbari. Majors had pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges of assault and aggravated harassment.
During closing arguments last week, prosecutors alleged Majors “didn’t hesitate to use physical violence” against Jabbari when he grabbed Jabbari’s right hand, twisted her arm behind her back and then “struck a blow” to her head.
Majors’ attorney reiterated his innocence during her closing argument, calling the accusations against him “fake” and alleging that Jabbari was the aggressor in their argument.
Majors did not testify during the trial, but he was present in the New York City courtroom for the duration of the proceedings.
According to the New York Times, Jabbari testified on December 5 that Majors assaulted her in the backseat of a car during the March dispute, which prosecutors said happened after Jabbari saw a romantic text message on his phone from someone else.
“We are gratified to see justice served by today’s guilty verdict. Ms. Jabbari testified publicly and truthfully, even though reliving these traumatic events on the witness stand was obviously painful,” Jabbari’s attorneys said in a statement to CNN on Monday. “We are grateful to the jurors and the Judge for their attention and patience, and to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office for their hard work and support.”
Until his legal troubles, Majors had starred in a number of high-profile film roles with more slated for production. He appeared as Kang in the Marvel film, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” which released back in February. He also appeared in the Disney+ series “Loki,” which aired its second season in October.
“Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” was to release in 2026 and would have served as a starring vehicle for Majors. He was also set to star in another film centered around his Marvel character, “Avengers: Secret Wars,” slated for a 2027 debut.
With Majors’ career trajectory already paused due to the trial, his professional future is now in question. The actor could face up to a year in prison for the assault conviction. He also faces a maximum of 15 days in jail and a $250 fine for the harassment violation.
His sentencing is scheduled for February 6 next year.
Looks like it's variant time.
They should just shitcan Kang and move on to a better villain. Loki pretty much solved the problem and having freaking antman defeat the new big bad was so damned stupid.
It's official — meet the next Fantastic Four (refresh if you don't see tweet):
https://twitter.com/MarvelStudios/st...96892455694452
Watched it tonight on streaming. I greatly enjoyed it … and it should not have been a theatrical release. Again, it didn't feel like a feature film so much as an episode of MCU: The Neverending Series.Quote:
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I love Ms. Marvel and the family dynamic she brings from the streaming series, and Kamala seemed to have decent chemistry with the other two — I got a big kick out of their training montage and relished the sequence on the musical planet all the way until the Kree baddie arrives. The Flerken remain hilarious, and their use as escape pods amused me.
But as much as I got personally dug the experience, much of the time I was thinking in the back of my mind that there's no way this would ever have widespread appeal. You've got three characters with little to no cachet, the fact that it's three females will automatically turn off a certain male segment of the fanbase. Even worse, two of them, Carol and Monica, still have all the personality of a tree, and they're dumped into a sloppy piece of storytelling to boot.
Epilogue and mid-credits scenes were cute. Get ready for the mutants.
The script for The Marvels needed another draft (or two) before being filmed. There were too many major and minor plot holes, and/or consequential coincidences for the movie to sustain any sort of immersion.
There definitely were some nice set pieces, but the bits connecting them needed to be a bit more fleshed out.
As far as PPatty's point about target audience - totally valid point. If anything it emphasizes the need for tighter writing, in part to immunize against criticisms that it's just a vehicle for promoting feminist views, etc (especially with the MCU's history in this regard, such as the ham-fisted "girl-power" scene in Endgame).
The Barbie movie is probably the best recent example of a film making its point, while also being a solid, well-made film in its own right.
He avoided jail time by entering relationship counseling instead...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ackar
Here you go, a trailer for MOST ANTICIPATED RELEASE OF PHASE 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARulRbzM7Jw
I may or may not give a try. Kathryn Hahn is great, but the specific character doesn't hook me at all, so the whole premise means nothing to me; and I have a bunch of other non-Marvel things on my list that I still haven't watched.
Guess Kang died on the way back to his home universe
:rofl: didn't expect this, Disney must have really shit their pants after all the bombs last year
Robert Downey Jr. Sets Marvel Return as Victor von Doom in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/r...ay-1236088170/
Peter Parker is really not going to handle meeting Doom well.
Yeah Peter Parker has had a rough past few movies.
Hopefully Dr. Doom goes well enough that RDJ can take over the role of T'Challa and do Black Panther 3 in Phase 7.
I wasn't planning to watch it, but after hearing some good word of mouth I checked out Agatha All Along. The first episode is a bit slow but it picks up nicely in the second, I like the direction its headed. Should be a fun thing to watch leading up to Halloween.
Episode 7 of Agatha All Along was fantastic, probably one of the best episodes of anything I have seen this year. The series has been a fun watch so far, much more enjoyable and cohesive compared to most disney+ shows.
As a man that would go out of his way to watch Aubrey Plaza interviews, and tidbits of thing she is in, I feel like they are using her to pander to the audience they have focused on getting.
Good for them, but i couldn't get my head around enough of it to want to conitnue watching it.
I enjoyed Agatha All Along. I wasn't particularly invested in the character or premise, but it made a good spooky month activity in lieu of the horror games I usually play. Thought the first few episodes were kind of weak/formulaic but it does get more interesting.
I also finally got around to watching the Marvels. It was fine. Better than I was expecting. My main criticism is that it felt like they were trying to fit a three hour movie into two hours, with scenes constantly jumping around. Even the (extremely wooden) character development scenes begin and end before you can blink. I feel like I criticize Marvel movies for this a lot, but it was even more hyperactive this time.
Worth it for the cat herding scene though.
That's exactly how I felt. For what it's worth, I thought it was interesting watching Hahn act like a lunatic. Agatha flips between the manipulative evil everyone perceives her to be and a normal person so often that I can't tell which is more "real" for the character.Quote:
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I agree with all of this. Just finished binging it, and while I did very much enjoy it — this might be the 2nd best Marvel series so far behind Wandavision — I worry that Season 2 will be a letdown. But I'm still gonna give it a shot whenever it comes around.Quote:
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Marvel Animation’s What If…? Season 3 | Official Trailer | Disney+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umiKiW4En9g
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What If Season 3 arrives December 22 on @DisneyPlus. Unwrap a new episode daily for 8 days!
Nice to see Howard.
Fantastic Four was great, better than I was expecting. It honestly felt like a Star Trek episode with its pacing.
Agreed. Fantastic Four is the best marvel movie in years. It almost feels like a soft reboot but it certainly makes sense on how Robert Downey Jr. can be Dr. Doom. Not sure how they will have him be in Latveria rather than the US but I guess we'll see.Quote:
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Marvel Television’s VisionQuest | Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSVTAUKyrL8
I have to admit, I didn't think I was interested but that looks pretty neat. I'm especially intrigued by the hook behind, umm, the cameo character (vague for those that choose wisely to not watch trailers to avoid spoilers).