Superhero fatigue already! It has been 15 years since Marvel Studios has been enthralling us with spectacular comic book-to-celluloid visuals. However, after 15 years, the superhero films that gave wings to careers for many are getting clipped by the newly arrived live-action films and series. Marvel has entered its fifth phase, and it has been struggling to achieve numbers. As ‘The Marvels’ is all set to release, the future seems bleak.
Marvel’s women-led superhero films have fared well at the box office in the past. The Gal Gaddot-starrer ‘Wonder Woman’ managed to earn $899 million worldwide. In 2019, Brie Larson was featured in the nostalgic intergalactic drama ‘Captain Marvel’ fighting the galaxy militants, Kree. The 2019 film created ripples at the box office, becoming a member of the $1 billion club. Now, the 2023 ‘The Marvels’ is struggling to earn decent sales during pre-sales.
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‘The Marvels’ Are Reported To Open At $50 Million-$75 Million In The US
After the events of ‘Captain Marvel’ and ‘Ms. Marvel’, Carol Danvers, Monica Rambeau, and Kamala Khan team up to save the universe from the Kree revolution to intensify. Phase five is not off to a great start. The first film, ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’, showed great promise during the opening by earning $76 million but failed to impress the audience.
The second release was James Gunn‘s farewell to the Marvel misfits in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’. The film collected $358 million at the domestic box office. However, with the progress of the fifth phase, the future of MCEU seems bleak. Grace Randolph reported that Marvel is worried about the early forecast of the Brie Larson-starrer’s pre-sales.
As per Box-Office Pro, ” ‘The Marvels’ is long-range tracking to open at $50M-$75M domestically. Pre-sales trends are currently 69% behind the pace of ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ and 42% behind ‘Eternals.’ “ Marvel Studios had $273 million to make ‘The Marvels’.
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Is Martin Scorsese’s Spell About Superhero Films Not Being ‘Cinema’ Working?
In recent times, both Marvel Studios and D.C. Studios have been struggling to bring comic-book fans back to the cinema halls. Even after bringing Michael Keaton’s Batman back on screen in ‘The Flash’, it failed to attract the audience. The excessiveness of these films is increasing manifold, but the audience numbers have been reducing.
During the ‘Empire’ interview, Martin Scorsese commented about the MCU films. He said that he does not see them, even after trying to watch them. Scorsese opined, “But that’s not cinema. Honestly, the closest I can think of them, as well-made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances, is theme parks.”
The filmmaker added, “It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.”
Though it would be preemptive to discard the MCU in general, Recently, ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ bent the storytelling pattern of the MCU and created something wonderful. The film also had a decent box office number, with $690 million worldwide.
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