Cynthia Erivo is once again expressing interest in joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Storm. The Wicked star recently revisited the idea during an interview with Variety, calling the role a “childhood fantasy of mine.”
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Did Disney Stack Avengers: Doomsday CinemaCon Panel With Paid Influencers to Manufacture Marvel Momentum?
CinemaCon is an annual trade event held in Las Vegas where film studios showcase upcoming films and trailers. They present directly to theater owners, exhibitors, and members of the press in attendance. Disney was prominently featured this year with a trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, scheduled for release this December. The presentation drew an exceptionally enthusiastic reaction from the audience in the room. Now, some are openly questioning if the Avengers: Doomsday trailer reaction was organic, or if Disney brought in “paid plants.”
Ryan Reynolds Claims Deadpool Will be a Supporting Character Going Forward
After Deadpool & Wolverine became a box office hit, many fans assumed another sequel was only a matter of time. However, according to writer and star Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool may no longer lead his own films. “I have some stuff kind of written, but I don’t think I am ever going to center him again,” Reynolds said in a recent interview on Sunday Today. “He is a supporting character. He is a guy who is great in a group.”
Cassie Lang Returning for ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ With Little Fanfare
Cassie Lang—a character last seen in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania—is returning for Avengers: Doomsday. The film is being positioned as a massive, multiverse-spanning event. Earlier casting announcements of legacy characters, and Robert Downey Jr.’s return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a different character, sparked some discussion online.
Tom Holland Says Spider-Man: Brand New Day Has Undergone Reshoots
The first trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day hinted that Peter Parker would undergo some significant physical changes—and now, it turns out the film itself has as well. In a new interview with GQ, star Tom Holland revealed that the movie has undergone additional reshoots. Variety reports that the joint Sony and Marvel production had already wrapped principal photography last year.
Disney Has a Huge Streaming Problem: Bluey Is Now More Popular than Star Wars and Marvel Combined
The Walt Disney Company has a huge problem on their hands. Bluey is now, hands-down, more popular than Star Wars and Marvel combined... and Disney doesn't own Bluey. They license the cartoon dogs from the BBC! For years, the conventional wisdom around Disney+ has been...
Sam Worthington Says Avatar Has More Freedom to Take Creative Risks Than Marvel
Australian actor Sam Worthington has said the Avatar film series operates with greater creative flexibility than Marvel productions, saying the freedom allows for creative expression and more risk-taking. In an interview with The Independent, Worthington explained...
Marvel Confirms Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 is About Trump, ICE
Marvel is no longer dancing around it. The studio behind Daredevil: Born Again has openly confirmed that Season 2 draws direct parallels to President Trump and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), leaning fully into real-world political inspiration as part of...
Terrible Wonder Man Ratings Show Marvel’s Disney+ Audience Has Vanished
Newly released Wonder Man ratings data paints a troubling picture for Marvel Studios’ Disney+ ambitions — and it suggests the once-unstoppable MCU television machine may have fully lost its grip on mainstream audiences. According to viewership tracking firm Luminate,...
Star Wars Marvel Crossover Rumor Shot Down by THR — But Deadpool Creator Says Disney Has “100%” Heard Pitches
A wild rumor lit up the comic book world this week — one that, on paper, felt almost inevitable given modern franchise cross-pollination — but according to industry trade reporting, fans may want to pump the brakes at least for now on the Star Wars galaxy meeting the...
RUMOR: Marvel May Be Splitting ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’ Into Two Films – WDW Pro Rumor Confirmed?
The possibility of Avengers: Secret Wars being split into two films appears increasingly likely. It’s a rumor that’s been circulating since May 2025, when sources told WDW Pro that the Russo Brothers and Marvel want to make Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars into a trilogy. At the time, Pro questioned if there were growing concerns at Marvel about the introduction of Doctor Doom and the overall health of the franchise.
Marvel’s Doomsday Clock Signals a Slower, More Cautious MCU
In the latest piece of marketing for Avengers: Doomsday, Marvel has begun streaming the Doomsday Clock. The YouTube video features the now-iconic Avengers A, backlit by something reminiscent of green stained glass — green, of course, being one of the primary colors of the film’s antagonist, Doctor Doom. The only text on the screen reads “Doomsday is Coming.” Accompanied by the sound of a ticking clock, a timer counts down the months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds until the film’s December release.
2025 Box Office Failed to Meet Even Hollywood’s Lowered Expectations
Hollywood entered 2025 with modest hopes for theatrical box office recovery — and still came up short.
According to year-end domestic ticket sales data reported by Variety, the 2025 box office closed at $8.87 billion, narrowly missing the already-reduced $9 billion projection that analysts had framed as a realistic benchmark. While the industry has attempted to spin the result as progress, the numbers tell a far less flattering story.