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  • Marvel’s Animated Spider-Man Project Gets New Release Date

    Marvel’s Animated Spider-Man Project Gets New Release Date

    As part of a slew of announcements made during 2021’s first-ever Disney Plus Day, Marvel Studios revealed the development of Spider-Man: Freshman Year. Originally teased as a canonical series that would serve as the prequel to the events of Captain America: Civil War, the project morphed into a multiverse adventure and was retitled Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.

    As explained at SDCC ’22, the series, developed and written by Jeff Trammell, will feature a slew of MCU supporting characters such as Doctor Strange and Matt Murdock, voiced by Charlie Cox, as well as characters who have yet to debut in the MCU such as Harry Osborn, Nico Minoru and Amadeus Cho. It was also revealed that it would feature multiple villains from Spidey’s Rogues Gallery including Unicorn, Chameleon, Scorpion, Speed Demon, Tarantula, Rhino, and Doc Ock as well as Norman Osborn. And as of late 2023, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man was included on Disney’s official 2024 D+ slate with a rumored November release in the works. It was recently revealed, however, that the series would not hit the streaming service in 2024 and now we may know when to expect it.

    According to an update to Disney’s All Access page, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man will debut on Disney Plus on January 25, 2025.

    It follows the pattern that you see in [Captain America:] Civil War. Down to Peter getting the broken Blu-ray player from the trash and he walks into his department for the famous moment where Tony Stark is waiting for him to offer him the stark internship and take him to Berlin. But because of things that happen in the multiverse because of new, random occurrences, it’s not Tony Stark who’s waiting for him there. It’s Norman Osborn and that sends his life in an unexpected trajectory that collides him with many unexpected characters in the Marvel universe.

    -Brad Winderbaum on Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man

    With the move, Marvel Animation’s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and Eyes of Wakanda are now tentatively dated until January 25, 2025 and August 6, 2025, respectively.

  • Marvel Studios Finally Removes One Film from Its 2025 Slate

    Marvel Studios Finally Removes One Film from Its 2025 Slate

    Marvel Studios panel at SDCC ’19 was among the most exciting they’ve ever put together on Hall H. However, due to a number of variables that have often been beyond the studio’s control, many of the projects teased over five years ago have yet to be released. Additionally, other projects have struggled to come together and have undergone numerous changes behind the scenes. Now it seems as though the studio has made the decision to move on from one such project for the time being.

    Via an official release from Disney, Marvel Studios has removed  Blade from its 2025 film slate.

    The move comes as no surprise to anyone who has followed the film’s incredible inability to come together over the past five years. Despite being backed and led by Mahershala Ali, the studio has been unable to put together a script worth shooting even after trying out a half dozen writers. Blade has also seen turnover in the director’s chair and despite recent rumors that they were looking to some new names to lead the film, Marvel Studios has finally put a stake in the heart of the project for now.

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  • First Look at Harrison Ford’s President Ross from ‘Captain America: Brave New World’

    First Look at Harrison Ford’s President Ross from ‘Captain America: Brave New World’

    Though there’s quite a bit of work left to do on Captain America: Brave New World, Marvel Studios used CinemaCon to show off the first footage from the film and, following that, released the fkrdt official images from the sequel through EW.

    As part of a post-CinemaCon exclusive, EW unveiled a look at Harrison Ford‘s President Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross and Sam Wilson’s updated Captain America suit.

    As expected, Captain America: Brave New World will give Anthony Mackie’s newly-minted Cap a chance to establish himself before taking on any Multiversal threats. “It made more sense for it to be more of a grounded espionage action movie as opposed to aliens and airplanes coming through portals and shit,” said Mackie.

    However, according to Mackie, Brave New World plays an integral part in the Multiverse Saga, similarly to the role played by The Winter Soldier in the Infinity Saga. “This movie is a clear reset. It really reestablishes the idea of what this universe is and what this universe is going to be,” said Mackie. “I think with these movies, you’re getting a clear, new branding of what Marvel is headed towards the same way they did with Captain America: The Winter Soldier.”

    Should Brave New World deliver on a level anywhere near the 2014 Cap sequel, it would be a welcome boost for Marvel Studios following a string of disappointments. With under a year to go until its February 14, 2025 release, Brave New World reportedly has a significant amount of filming left to do but it’s clear Mackie and the folks at Marvel are confident it will come together and remind fans why they enjoyed the MCU in the first place.

    Source: EW

  • Marvel Studios Fires ‘X-Men ’97’ Creator Ahead of Season 1 Debut

    Marvel Studios Fires ‘X-Men ’97’ Creator Ahead of Season 1 Debut

    In a shocking bit of news, Marvel Studios has reportedly parted ways with X-Men ’97 creator Beau DeMayo. Following a weekend where DeMayo deleted his Instagram, where he had often provided updates for the upcoming seires, THR’s Borys Kit and Aaron Couch revealed that he was no longer working for Marvel Studios.

    It’s an unusual move for Marvel Studios as not only had DeMayo already worked on a second season of X-Men ’97 but has also worked with the studio on several other projects including Moon Knight and Blade. The news of the firing comes just two days ahead of the series Hollywood premiere and the publicity push before its March 20th streaming debut.

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    Source: THR

  • ‘Thunderbolts’ Gets Yet Another New Release Date

    ‘Thunderbolts’ Gets Yet Another New Release Date

    As fans continue to wonder if Thunderbolts will ever start production, Marvel Studios has given the film a new release date. As part of yet another reshuffling of its slate, the theatrical release Thunderbolts has been moved UP 12 weeks.

    As part of their big Valentine’s Day reveal of the cast, new title and new release date for The Fantastic Four, Marvel Studios moved Thunderbolts from a July 25, 2025 to May 2, 2025. With principal photography on the former slated to get underway in March and the latter not until summer, the studio simply swapped release dates for the two films.

    Originally set to hit theaters July 26, 2024, Thunderbolts has been hit hard by delays with star Wyatt Russell joking that production had almost started “14 times.” Not much is known about the film’s plot other than it will see a team composed of Florence Pugh‘s Yelena Belova, Russell’s John Walker, Hannah John-Kamen‘s Ava Starr/Ghost and Olga Kurylenko‘s Antonia Dreykov/Taskmaster working for Julia Louis-Dreyfus‘ scheisty Valentima Allegra de Fontaine. Top Gun: Maverick actor Lewis Pullman will also star as Robert Reynolds, aka Sentry, one of Marvel Comics’ most powerful and enigmatic characters.

  • ‘What If…?’ Director Bryan Andrews Updates Season 3 Release Plans

    ‘What If…?’ Director Bryan Andrews Updates Season 3 Release Plans

    Following the Season 2 finale of What If…? on Disney Plus on December 30th, Marvel released a “Look Into the Future” feature for the third season of the animated series. Though no release date for the new season was given, the feature ended with the promise that the new season was “coming soon.” Soon is, of course, relative and with all the changes behind the scenes at Marvel Studios following Bob Iger’s return as CEO of Disney, release dates have never been more uncertain than they are now. In an interview with Comic Book’s Phase Zero podcast, What If…? director and executive producer Bryan Andrews echoed that sentiment while discussing the potential timeline for the release of Season 3.

    While working hard to make no promises he couldn’t keep, Andrews revealed that the best fans could hope for is a late-2024 debut of What If…? Season 3. “They move stuff around,” said Andrews of Marvel Studios. “Every time I thought it was like, ‘Oh, it’s going to be this!’ It’s like, ‘It’s going to move a little bit!’ So, even I would hate to say something and have people’s hopes come up and then have them be dashed because of the beast of production and when things move around,” he explained. “I thought that it could come out at the end of the year in 2024 possibly, but that would be tight. There’s some other group of people that are masterminding when things [release] and they’re moving things on the board, and I don’t know where we exist on that at this moment.”

    So while it’s entirely possible that Marvel Studios rolls What If…? out in 2024, it was not listed on the slate sent out to press in late 2023. However, as Andrews explained, the slate is only the slate until it isn’t and fans should start getting used to the idea that dance.

    Source: Phase Zero

  • Digital Platform and Physical Media Release Dates for ‘The Marvels’ Revealed

    Digital Platform and Physical Media Release Dates for ‘The Marvels’ Revealed

    Though it was a fun, fast-paced adventure, The Marvels will ultimately be remembered as Marvel Studios biggest bust to date. Finishing its domestic run with roughly $205M, the film is by far the lowest grossing MCU project to date and continued a worrisome trend of landing neither with critics nor audiences. That said, there’s always the possibility that–like some of Disney’s other less-than-successful films of late–it finds an audience at home. And now that it’s out of theater, it’s been revealed when The Marvels will hit digital platforms and be available for purchase at retailers.

    USA Today broke the news that The Marvels will be available for purchase on digital platforms such as Vudu, Amazon Prime and more on January 16th.

    Blu-ray and 4K UHD copies will hit shelves on February 13th, just about 3 months after the film began it’s theatrical run. That’s a pretty standard timeline for Marvel’s films though some have landed on either side of that window.

    Like many other recent MCU projects, The Marvels reportedly underwent a serious facelift in post-production and that may have led to the film’s choppy feel. Additionally, the ongoing strikes in Hollywood cut out a significant portion of the publicity tour that typically accompanies Marvel’s projects.

  • Classic Marvel Villain Avi Arad Has No Idea When ‘Spider-Woman’ Will Hit Theaters

    Classic Marvel Villain Avi Arad Has No Idea When ‘Spider-Woman’ Will Hit Theaters

    Short of Norman Osborn, no single man that has ever walked the fictional or non-fictional planet Earth has a greater vendetta against Spider-Man than Avi Arad. Unlike Norman, however, Arad seems relatively unaware of his ongoing destruction of all things Peter Parker. After producing Marvel Comic-based such as 1998’s Blade, 2000’s X-Men and 2002’s Spider-Man, Arad went on to produce some of the worst CBMs in the history of the genre and famously forcing Sam Raimi into including Venom into Spider-Man 3, tainting the franchise.

    As penance for his sins, Arad went on to ensure that Sony could produce a number of outrageously terrible films built around Spider-Man villains including Venom, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Morbius and the upcoming Kraven the Hunter along with another half dozen films that certainly aren’t making the top 25 CBMs. Now Sony leans heavily into both animation and their relationship with Marvel Studios to resuscitate the studio’s reputation with the Web-Head, Arad reveals that, once again, he is clueless about another Sony project.

    In an interview with Variety, Arad claimed that a Spider-Woman movie–based on another character whose live-action right are shared by Marvel Studios and Sony–would be coming “sooner than you expect.” Wildly enough, since casting for Spider-Woman, which Sony exec Amy Pascal says “is happening“, was underway in prior to COVID shutting down Hollywood in 2020, fans have been expecting the film, once believed to be helmed by Olivia Wilde, to have been in theaters already. However, fans are set to be treated to Sony/Marvel fare such as Madame Web and, maybe, El Muerto instead while the theatrical future of Spider-Woman, a far more premiere Marvel Comics character, remains uncertain.

    Whether or not Wilde is still attached to the Spider-Woman project–which was slated to feature Jessica Drew–is unknown. However, given that Marvel Studios and Sony have a very strange and unfortunate relationship over the character’s live-action right, anything less than a Disney/Sony co-op will not do the character justice.

    Source: Variety

  • Marvel Studios Hits Pause on ‘Wonder Man’ & ‘Thunderbolts’

    Marvel Studios Hits Pause on ‘Wonder Man’ & ‘Thunderbolts’

    As the writers’ strike continues, Hollywood is being forced to hit pause on upcoming projects. Two of the most recent projects impacted by the strike are Marvel Studios’ Wonder Man and Thunderbolts, with the former having already begun production and the latter having been readying for a June start.

    Wonder Man and Thunderbolts join Blade as Marvel Studios projects now on hold indefinitely. Wonder Man has no official release window but Thunderbolts and Blade are tentatively slated for July 26th, 2024 and September 6, 2024 releases, respectively. It would seem that should the strike continue through the Summer and, perhaps, beyond that meeting those release dates would begin to become unrealistic for Marvel Studios.

    As it currently stands, productions for Agatha: Coven of Chaos, Captain America: New World Order, Daredevil: Born Again and the third Deadpool film are still up and running. While principal photography on Kathryn Hahn‘s Agatha Harkness spinoff is coming to a close, the Deadpool and Wolverine team-up is just getting underway in the UK. It’s unknown how the strike might impact additional photography and/or reshoots which are a built-in part of every Marvel Studios production.

    Source: Deadline.

  • RUMOR: Josh Gad to Appear in ‘Wonder Man’

    RUMOR: Josh Gad to Appear in ‘Wonder Man’

    Production on Marvel Studios’ Wonder Man kicked off earlier this month in Atlanta, with set photos providing fans their first look at Ben Kingsley on set. The project, which is being produced by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton, is set to star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Simon Williams, aka Wonder Man. While Marvel Studios has been relatively quiet regarding the project thus far, we also know that Ed Harris, Lauren Glazier, Werner Herzog, Demetrius Grosse and Bob Odenkirk are set to appear in the series. However, it seems yet another big name is being added to the big cast as reporter Jeff Sneider has reported he’s heard that actor Josh Gad has joined the cast.

    No further details were provided, unfortunately, so it’s unclear who Gad could be playing in the series. It’s also unknown if Gad’s role is a starring role or a recurring role.

    Stella Meghie and James Ponsoldt are on board as directors for Wonder Man, although it’s currently unknown how many episodes each will helm. As of now, Wonder Man does not yet have a release date.

    Source: Twitter.