“Deadpool & Wolverine” is expected to do blockbuster numbers at the box office once it opens in theaters on July 26th. But how high are we talking? “Inside Out 2” is currently the highest grossing movie of the summer, with $550 million and counting domestically. Worldwide, the total is approaching $1.3 Billion. Incredible. It may […]
COVID forced a two-year break of Marvel Cinematic Universe entries, from “Spider-Man: Far From Home” on July 2, 2019 to “Black Widow” on July 9, 2021. By the time we hit July 8, 2022, Disney will have released SIX MCU movies in a 365-day period. Talk about making-up for lost time. The Mouse House and […]
New Marvel animated series “What If” premieres Wednesday August 11th on Disney+. This is my Animation Scoop Q&A with writer A.C. Bradley and director Bryan Andrews. ————————————— Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic/entertainment reporter in 2006 at the age of 7. Jackson has written over 1,000 reviews of […]
Marvel’s third major series of 2021 on Disney+ is “Loki”, with Tom Hiddleston reprising his title role as the MCU villain. I’ve never been a gigantic fan of his character over the years. You don’t have to like all villains, but the great ones still have impact. He’s never had that in my book. That […]
When “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” premiered on ABC in September 2013, I thought, “This show is gonna be HUGE! Marvel fans are gonna obsess over this. There will be movie star cameos all the time. People will go crazy over it!” And, out of the gate, “S.H.I.E.L.D.” lived-up to those expectations. It delivered more than […]
The eagerly anticipated “WandaVision” kicks off what should be another big year for Disney+. The streaming service has several Marvel projects on the way, including “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” and “Loki” series, as well as… maybe… “Black Widow” ……? For now, we get a nine-episode miniseries starring Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany, whose […]
If you’re a big movie fan, and especially a big SUPERHERO movie fan, what were you probably doing around this time last April – and the April before that? Gearing-up for an “Avengers” movie! But here we are, in April 2020, and there is no “Avengers” movie this year. In fact, there’s no Marvel Cinematic […]
“Avengers: Endgame” is almost here, with its sights set on a record-breaking, $300 million opening weekend. Entertainment Weekly recently put out a piece ranking the 21 Marvel Cinematic Universe installments by grade. And in reading it, I noticed something interesting. Their critics never gave one of these movies a grade higher than an A-. But […]