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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/business/media/disney-marvel-ike-perlmutter.html?smid=tw-share

Frugal Marvel Entertainment chief Ike Perlmutter, who reigned in MCU spending and originally blocked female led movies, has been axed by Disney as a cost cutting measure

https://deadline.com/2023/03/karan-soni-leslie-uggams-deadpool-1235312293/

Two franchise familiars return for Deadpool 3

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Demetrius Grosse Joins Marvel's "Wonder Man" - Dark Horizons

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Jonathan Majors' Rep Speaks Out After The Star Was Arrested For Strangulation And More

"Jonathan Majors, best known to audiences for his roles as Kang in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Creed III and more, has been arrested. According to reports, the rising Hollywood actor was taken into custody this weekend after being charged with several offenses. Majors, who is now out of police custody, is currently facing charges of strangulation, assault and harassment. While this story is still developing, a representative for the actor has already spoken out and denied the accusations leveled at him.

The 33-year-old actor was arrested in New York City Saturday morning after police responded to a call around 11 p.m. ET somewhere around Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. Jonathan Majors is being accused of assaulting a woman and, according to TMZ, the individual pressing charges is allegedly his girlfriend. Per the outlet, she and Majors were in a taxi and returning home from a Brooklyn bar when they got into a heated discussion. Authorities were told that the unidentified female saw Majors texting another woman and she proceeded to look at his phone. The star is said to have been angered by this and purportedly proceeded to grab her hand and slap her. The woman also claims that the White Boy Rick alum put his hands around her neck."

Arrested does not mean guilty and all of this news is coming from TMZ, so make of that what you will.

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It's certainly sitting at a weird place since it came out. His rep claims the women involved have recanted their accusations and yet the trial is still continuing. It's the handful of industry peeps who have backed up notions of his temper and the lack of denial of that which is interesting too. According to his rep it was Majors himself who called the police but that just makes the scenario even more puzzling as he's then on trial for calling the police on himself for an incident he says didn't happen. Presumably that cements there's more to this that the police know and is why they are happy to continue with what will be a high profile case

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His rep claims the women involved have recanted their accusations

It doesn't prove anything, but when it's the might of The Disney Corporation breathing down your neck...

and yet the trial is still continuing. It's the handful of industry peeps who have backed up notions of his temper and the lack of denial of that which is interesting too.

The thing is, a temper, volatility... Christian Bale is still working after that lighting guy rant from years ago. When it's TMZ it's very difficult to parse. You're talking about the new star of the MCU; a journo at TMZ probably wanks themselves to sleep at night imagining the chance to break that story.

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a journo at TMZ probably wanks themselves to sleep at night imagining the chance to break that story.

Just lolled at that! Ha ha ha!

"LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!"

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Just lolled at that! Ha ha ha!

"LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!"

The point here is that when TMZ report something like this, I'm not sure we know anything we didn't know before.

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There's a producer of Loki: Season 02 somewhere sweating profusely right now

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I'm very wary of going all conspiracy theory etc on this but I must admit... the notion that these texts dispel violence or that these read like real texts between partners...

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I'm very wary of going all conspiracy theory etc on this but I must admit... the notion that these texts dispel violence or that these read like real texts between partners...

A few things feel wrong here, starting with lawyers sharing things with TMZ.

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Yep, especially with his own messages redacted there's far too strong of a PR management vibe to it all. Ironic as simply waiting and providing the evidence they claim to have should be enough to easily make this go away and be dismissed as a story spun up more by the media but instead there's the real risk of compounding perceptions by not leaving it alone, especially with weeks to go till a court hears this. Best case is now that his lawyers are very badly advising him.

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Brace yourself for the new posters launched for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3

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Gunn Talks Superhero Fatigue, Marvel Issues - Dark Horizons
James Gunn says that Marvel has painted itself into a corner post Endgame by making the Blip such an event that it means the stuff that follows struggles to deal with that.

Personally I don't buy that line. The Blip element of Endgame is so notable not because of the stories being constrained by it but by how poorly Marvel has handled bothering to address it at all. A few throwaway lines or jokes aside it's gone without consequence at all and to be honest is probably one of the most contributing factors into why Phase 4 struggled to carry much weight. The threat of consequence was wiped clean instead, stories quickly running off into generic tales. Space bound species don't even mention it when it applied for 5 years to them too. Phase 4 should have been focused on the fallout and led into the paranoia of having someone like Kang emerge. Personally again, I would have had an entire Phase occur between Infinity War and Endgame, lived with the Avengers blamed for the failure to stop Thanos etc. Instead the Blip barely mattered in the end.

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Gunn Talks Superhero Fatigue, Marvel Issues - Dark Horizons
James Gunn says that Marvel has painted itself into a corner post Endgame by making the Blip such an event that it means the stuff that follows struggles to deal with that.

Personally I don't buy that line. The Blip element of Endgame is so notable not because of the stories being constrained by it but by how poorly Marvel has handled bothering to address it at all. A few throwaway lines or jokes aside it's gone without consequence at all and to be honest is probably one of the most contributing factors into why Phase 4 struggled to carry much weight. The threat of consequence was wiped clean instead, stories quickly running off into generic tales. Space bound species don't even mention it when it applied for 5 years to them too. Phase 4 should have been focused on the fallout and led into the paranoia of having someone like Kang emerge. Personally again, I would have had an entire Phase occur between Infinity War and Endgame, lived with the Avengers blamed for the failure to stop Thanos etc. Instead the Blip barely mattered in the end.

Yeah; admittedly though that arose from something - that they split Infinity War into two movies, then tried to pretend as though it was always meant to be Infinity War and Endgame, and not just Infinity War Part 1 and Infinity War Part 2, to avoid being compared to other franchises which have done that.

Because it happened part-way through that project, they didn't have the time to turn the massive oil tanker that was the MCU operation to adjust to that. Ironically, Far From Home has had some of the stronger references to it, about the weirdness that would result - e.g. siblings swapping younger/older ages, kids having to deal with school, etc.