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Tom's Guide
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Tom's Guide
Kevin Feige reveals Miles Morales not allowed in MCU, 'X-Men' casting update and more
Marvel chief creative officer Kevin Feige just gave a massive interview last Friday, laying out details about what to expect from the future of Marvel and what he thinks went wrong with the MCU in the past (h/t Variety). Of course, "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" arrives this week, meaning Marvel was going to be in the spotlight this week no matter what ( spoiler alert: early reactions are positive). But Feige's comments are significant enough that they are a must-read for any Marvel fan. No Miles Morales in the MCU yet — 'We've been told to stay away' In this long-ranging interview, Feige covered Marvel's plans for the MCU between now and 2032, as well as what's gone wrong since "Avengers: Endgame." You may like For me, though, the headline was this — don't expect Miles Morales in the MCU. That's coming from Feige himself, who said, 'That is nowhere," when asked about the other Spider-Man entering the MCU, adding, "We've been told to stay away." (Image credit: Sony Pictures Animation) On the one hand, that's a bummer. Sony and Marvel have teamed up to great effect with Tom Holland's portrayal of Peter Parker, and "Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man" was a pleasant surprise on Disney Plus earlier this year. It stands to reason that they could produce similarly great stories with Miles Morales, who has become a fan favorite since his introduction to the Marvel universe. On the other hand, it's tough to see where Miles would fit alongside Holland's Spider-Man in the MCU. That's not to say it's impossible, and perhaps he could have been easily shoehorned into "Doomsday" or "Secret Wars," which are set to likely feature multiple iterations of the same character as the MCU careens towards a much-needed reset. But there's not a logical need for him to fill at present. Perhaps it's best that he wrap up his own story in 2027's 'Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse,' and then Sony and Marvel can assess the future of the character. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. Mahershala Ali's 'Blade' still lives — but 'Young Avengers' might not (Image credit: Marvel) While Miles Morales might not be joining the MCU anytime soon, Feige says that two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali is still on track to play the titular Daywalker in a "Blade" movie. 'We didn't want to simply just put a leather outfit on him and have him start killing vampires,' Feige explained during his sit-down with the media (h/t Variety). 'It had to be unique. It fell into the time when we started pulling back and saying, 'Only accept insanely great.' And it ['Blade'] wasn't 'insanely great' at the time.' But while things are still on track for "Blade," Feige was less forthright about a future "Young Avengers" property. 'Potentially,' Feige said, when asked about a future story centered around Marvel's young heroes. 'In that case, it comes down to where's the best story and where is the best strange alchemy. Who would be fun to see them with? Each other, because that's what the Young Avengers are, but also mixing it up more.' A new cast of X-Men is coming (Image credit: Twentieth Century Fox) We already know that many past "X-Men" stars are returning for next year's 'Avengers: Doomsday.' Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden and Kelsey Grammer were all confirmed in an hours-long casting announcement. But once that movie is over, a new cast of X-Men will star in an upcoming untitled 'X-Men' movie directed by Jake Schreier (of "Thunderbolts*" fame). They may even appear as soon as "Avengers: Secret Wars." 'We're utilizing that ['Secret Wars'] not just to round out the stories we've been telling post-'Endgame,'" Feige told those in attendance on Friday (h/t Variety). "Just as importantly — and you can look at the 'Secret Wars' comics for where that takes you — it very, very much sets us up for the future. 'Endgame,' literally, was about endings. 'Secret Wars' is about beginnings.' Expect Marvel to go on the younger side for casting these roles, too, as Feige noted that X-Men stories naturally tend to center around adolescents. The X-Men aren't the only major Marvel characters being recast either. Feige indicated that Marvel will ultimately recast Tony Stark and Steve Rogers in the MCU — it's just a matter of when. Expect less from Marvel — because less is more (Image credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / Getty Images) Finally, the biggest news Feige dropped in this press conference was that Marvel will be putting out less content — because it needs to. 'We produced 50 hours of stories between 2007 and 2019,' Feige said, when discussing how Marvel shifted from a focus on quality to a focus on quantity. "We've had well over 100 hours of stories — in half the time [in the six years since 'Avengers: Endgame']. That's too much.' It's this that Feige blames for Marvel's flagging performance. 'It's clearly not superhero fatigue, right?' he said, referring to the fact that DC's "Superman" is doing just fine at the same box office where "Thunderbolts*" and other Marvel movies have struggled. Speaking of "Thunderbolts*," Feige also blames the Disney Plus shows specifically for the movie's commercial failure. ''Thunderbolts*' I thought was a very, very good movie,' Feige told those assembled. 'But nobody knew that title and many of those characters were from a [TV] show. Some [audiences] were still feeling that notion of, 'I guess I had to have seen these other shows to understand who this is.'" Feige wants to steer away from the importance of the Marvel shows in the MCU going forward, at least in regards to how they connect to the films. 'I think allowing a TV show to be a TV show is what we're returning to.' Follow Tom's Guide on Google News to get our up-to-date news, how-tos, and reviews in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button.
Yahoo
11-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Daredevil: Born Again' Becomes Disney+'s Biggest Premiere of 2025 With 7.5 Million Views
'Daredevil: Born Again' scored the biggest premiere audience Disney+ has seen this year. After launching with the first two episodes on Tuesday, March 4, the 'Daredevil: Born Again' premiere scored 7.5 million views globally in its first five days of streaming on Disney+, according to internal streaming figures from Disney. Disney defines a view as total stream time divided by runtime. The Marvel Television show now ranks as the most-watched premiere on Disney+ in 2025 so far. Notable shows that have also premiered on the streamer in 2025 include 'Goosebumps: The Vanishing,' 'A Real Bug's Life' Season 2, 'Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man' and 'Win or Lose,' among others. In September, the premiere episode of Marvel Television's 'Agatha All Along' scored 9.3 million views on Disney+ within a week on the streamer, though that measurement includes two more days than the viewing figures for the 'Daredevil: Born Again' premiere. Still, premiere viewership for 'Daredevil: Born Again' was surpassed by 'The Acolyte,' which reached 11.1 million views within its first five days of streaming on Disney+. However, 'Daredevil: Born Again' did outpace viewership for 'Inside Out' spinoff series 'Dream Productions,' which scored 5.6 million viewers on Disney+ in its first five days of streaming. Charlie Cox stars as Matt Murdock/Daredevil in 'Daredevil: Born Again' alongside Vincent D'Onofrio, Deborah Ann Woll, Jon Bernthal, Elden Henson and Ayelet Zurer, among others. After debuting its first two episodes on March 4, 'Daredevil: Born Again' will debut one episode weekly for the next two weeks on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET before releasing Episodes 5 and 6 together. Then, the show will move back to debuting one episode every week before airing its finale (Episode 9) on April 15. The post 'Daredevil: Born Again' Becomes Disney+'s Biggest Premiere of 2025 With 7.5 Million Views appeared first on TheWrap.
The Guardian
05-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Daredevil: Born Again review – could Marvel's new series go one better than The Penguin?
For those of you who like to keep count, Daredevil: Born Again is the 13th small-screen series under the aegis of the Marvel Television team (Agatha All Along last year was the 11th, and the 12th, the animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, launched a few weeks ago). For those of you who like to go more by what it feels like, it is number 872. So what do we have here? Well, it's a revival/reboot/continuation of the Daredevil series that ran on Netflix for three seasons from 2015-2018. There were rumours that it began life as a comedy but was reshot to bring it more in line with fans' expectations for a series about one of the MCU's grittier characters. Let the online historians debate it all in a multiverse of furious threads while the rest of us get on with watching the actual show. We open with a bravura set piece involving most of the people you'd expect. Lawyer Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) AKA the vigilante superhero (Murdock was blinded in a childhood accident and developed heightened senses as a result) Daredevil is attending the retirement party of NYPD cop Cherry (Clark Johnson – revered for ever by those of us who remember his woefully underacknowledged performance as Det Meldrick Lewis in Homicide: Life on the Street) with his friends Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson) and Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll). And, it suddenly turns out, his non-arch nemesis Benjamin 'Dex' Poindexter, whose experimental spinal surgery at the end of the original series has rendered him literally fighting fit once more. After a brutal fight, a fall (or push) and a death, we cut to a year later to introduce the rest of the cast and start the devilry proper. Wilson Fisk (the returning Vincent D'Onofrio in an uncharacteristically unmannered performance as the crime lord, known as Kingpin, and most-arch nemesis of Daredevil) is back in town after a long absence. During this time, his wife, Vanessa (Ayelet Zurer), has run his empire with ever-greater efficiency and profit. She is not best pleased when her husband decides that now is the time to go legit and start accruing power instead of merely money. He runs for mayor of New York City and despite being a renowned wrong 'un, he knows how to command a camera and whip up a media storm. People warm to his straight-talking ways and the simple solutions he seems to offer to all the city's problems and ignore the various problematic aspects of his temperament and career and elect him. Imagine! I do sometimes wonder if Donald Trump isn't a crisis actor deployed by desperate screenwriters to make even the most basic villain now seem a precision-tooled response to Our Troubled Times. This creeping suspicion is not helped by the many scenes of an internet reporter played by Genneya Walton vox-popping people on the street and them espousing polarised opinions on whether Fisk's hardline anti-vigilantism message is good or bad for the city/America. Meanwhile, Murdock is having a crisis of conscience – are vigilantes good for the city/America? Or bad? – and trying to keep to the day job as a defence lawyer, with Cherry as his private investigator and much work for the common good to do. But the lines between heroic attorney work and vigilante violence begin to blur as Murdock must first find then save the sole witness to a bad cop beatdown of an informant. In the meantime, Kingpin is gathering kompromat on the commissioner of police to smooth his passage to power and, goodness me, isn't keeping right from wrong difficult, whatever part of a multiverse you're in? Murdock and Fisk – or Cox and D'Onofrio if you prefer – are great in key scenes together, the former fleet and dancing, the latter giving off a dark, heavy energy that has you backing away from the screen as you watch. This, the action sequences and the distribution of such superficially stirring lines as 'I was raised to believe in grace and retribution' will certainly be enough to keep viewers happy, as will – surely – the return of Jon Bernthal as Frank 'The Punisher' Castle. Whether the MCU team has done enough to take the comic adaptation crown from its current holder, DC's dark, clever, critically acclaimed ratings smash The Penguin, however, remains to be seen. And, of course, the wider question of how much IP exploitation a franchise can manage without collapsing under the weight of its own lore and Sacred Timeline becomes ever more pressing. Daredevil: Born Again is on Disney+ now
Yahoo
29-01-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Disney+ Signs Landmark Deal in France to Invest 25% of its Local Turnover in French, European Movies; Gets Nine-Month Window on Theatrical Films
Disney+ has signed a landmark agreement to invest 25% of its annual sales generated in France to finance French and European series and films. As a payoff for this commitment, the streamer will be allowed to access newly released films nine months after their theatrical release, a big improvement from the previous 17-month window. By comparison, Netflix, which ranks as France's leading streaming service in terms of subscribers, has a 15-month window; while Apple TV+, which just signed its first ever agreement in France to invest 20% of its turnover in local and European productions, is at 17 months. More from Variety Netflix's Oscar-Nominated Short Film 'Anuja' Gets Release Date and Trailer (EXCLUSIVE) Netflix Finally Adds Full-Season Download Feature for Apple iOS Apps Disney+'s 'Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man' Is a Refreshing, Fun Spin on Marvel's Web-Slinger: TV Review Under their three-year agreement, Disney+ will also made a big push into local movies as it's signed on to buy or pre-buy and finance a minimum of 70 films over this period, ensuring a diversity of genres and budgets. The long-gestated deal follows rollercoaster negotiations with the local industry which fell through at certain times, notably when Disney decided to forgo the theatrical release of 'Strange World' in 2022. The forceful move propelled French exhibitors in a state of panic, but also led for negotiations to be re-launched. A Disney spokesperson had called out the French rules for being 'cumbersome' and 'anti-consumer, ignoring how behaviour has evolved over the last several years and putting us at increased risk for piracy.' Disney, like other streaming services, has been on a crusade to see France amend its strict windowing rules for several years. These guidelines are even responsible for the absence of Netflix at the Cannes Film Festival, since the event requires every film in competition to be distributed in cinemas in France. But the country's main players, particularly the pay TV group Canal+, have been pushing back because they are the biggest financiers of local movies and want to stay ahead with their preferred access to newly released films, which is currently set at six months. This landmark deal with Disney is happening as the U.S. studio became France's top distributor in 2024, with blockbusters like 'Inside Out 2' and 'Moana 2.' 'This agreement marks an important step for French cinema-goers,' said Hélène Etzi, chairman of The Walt Disney Company France. 'Making films accessible to as many people as possible, first in cinemas, then much more rapidly on the Disney+ platform, is an essential first step in meeting the needs of French audiences,' said Etzi. 'This agreement testifies to Disney's unwavering commitment to the public,' she says, 'and its desire to continue working with French talent and producers in the film and audiovisual sectors.' The pact has been celebrated by film guilds in France, including the ARP, BLIC and BLOC that regroups producers, filmmakers and distributors. 'We are delighted that Disney+ has joined the ranks of media chronology signatory operators who have signed a financing and broadcasting agreement with the film industry, enabling it to strengthen its support for French and European creation, and offer its subscribers recent films,' said the orgs in a joint statement. Best of Variety What's Coming to Netflix in February 2025 New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week What's Coming to Disney+ in February 2025 Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man': How to Watch Marvel's All-New Animated Show
Marvel's most iconic web-slinging superhero is set for a whole new alternate take on his back story, with the release this week of new animated show, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. Helmed by Craig of the Creek showrunner Jeff Trammell, the new series asks how Spidey would have turned out if he'd been mentored by industrialist villain Norman Osborn, rather than Tony Stark. Hudson Thames reprises his What If...? role as the voice of Peter Parker, while the show also boasts the vocal talents of Hugh Dancy as Otto Octavius, Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk and Sing Sing star Colman Domingo as Osborn. Old school Spidey fans will likely appreciate the retro-tinged 3D cel-shading style, which pays homage to the artwork of early Spider-Man comic books by Steve Ditko and John Romita. Daredevil fans will be pleased to hear the character's radar sense is set to be called up on in the show, with Charlie Cox providing his voice. We've got the release date and time for the series below so you can plan your viewing accordingly. Read more: Disney Plus: 20 TV Shows You Should Definitely Watch Right Now This Marvel Phase 5 series will be available exclusively to stream on Disney Plus. The show has an unorthodox release schedule, with episodes of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man arriving in four separate chunks. The series premieres with a double helping of episodes on Jan. 29. That's followed by a drop of the next three episodes on Feb. 5, while episodes six and eight are set to be released on Feb. 12. The season concludes with the final two installments which are set to be available on demand, starting Feb. 19. Each of those episode drops listed above are set to happen at 3 a.m. ET/midnight PT in the US and Canada, 8 a.m. in the UK and at 7 p.m. AEDT in Australia. If you don't have Disney Plus and are interested in getting a subscription, you've got plenty of options. Disney Plus is available for purchase on its own, or you can look through Disney bundles to find the right fit for you. Disney Plus starts at $10 a month for standalone subscriptions. But you can also get the Disney Bundle to get the service with Hulu and/or ESPN Plus. You can choose to stream with or without ads, depending on the bundle you choose. You also have the option to try the new bundle package, with Max, Hulu and Disney Plus, which starts at $17 a month. Check out our Disney Plus review for more info. See at Disney Plus
