The Last Dark Phoenix & Mike Re-Reviews Age of Ultron | Weekly News Episode 168
Superhero Slate counts the number of sleeps from Avengers Infinity War, Fox is wrapping up their X-Men, buy your Deadpool tickets now, and more!
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Mike fulfills his promise - Age of Ultron Re-Review
News
Avengers: Infinity War (13:35)
- Dread it, run from it...it will still happen.
- Film budget in the $300 million range, bringing marketing and full totals to nearly $500 million!
- Odeon connected poster
- Presale tickets/interest higher than previous two Star Wars movies
- Future MCU directors have seen Avengers 4 to help with their upcoming films
- TITAN CONSUMED novel to reveal MCU origins of Thanos
Avengers 4 (22:30)
- Emma Fuhrmann as a teenage version of Cassie Lang
- Time travel? Alternate futures?
Homecoming (23:50)
- Sequel will be more global, outside of NYC
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 (27:10)
- Infinity War character & level pack
- Play as Thanos attacking Black Bolt and the Inhumans
Stan Lee (28:00)
- Filmed cameos for 3 more MCU movies
- Ant-Man/The Wasp, Captain Marvel, and Avengers 4
Black Widow (32:30)
- Joe Russo (Avengers: IW) think the movie is coming
- Characters “little girls can look up to”
X-Men: Dark Phoenix (36:50)
- Will be final Marvel movie from Fox (production)
- All future projects moved to Disney
- Phase 4 candidates: Deadpool, Fantastic Four, X-Men
- Reshoots are having sets digitally recreated because they were scrapped when filming was done
- Original story was film was 2 parts, this may wrap it up cleaner than a cliffhanger
Deadpool 2 (45:20)
- Final red band trailer
- TICKETS ON SALE
- “The more you put Deadpool in a box, the more he wants to push outside it.” - David Leitch regarding Fox/Disney merger
- Trailer punchlines/jokes will not be in the final film
- Multiple takes/improvisations used in trailers
- 4 movie arc for Cable
Superman (54:50)
- 80th Anniversary of superhero’s debut
Birds of Prey (55:45)
- Multiple scripts being developed, Batgirl in all versions
Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom (56:50)
East of West/Transhuman (1:01:25)
- Amazon picking up series based on Jonathan Hickman’s series
Doom (1:03:48)
- New film based on new, successful reboot of game.
Masters of the Universe (1:04:45)
- Aaron and Adam Nee to direct picture
- David Goyer is out
- Release December 18, 2019
MASK (1:05:30)
- Mobile Armored Strike Kommand
- F. Gary Gray (F8 of the Furious) to launch franchise for Hasbro
xXx (1:07:25)
- Fourth film to start production this Summer
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