Deadline's reporting that the Disney offer for Fox will come with certain tax advantages, effectively putting the Mouse House on a route destined for victory.
Following an unprecedented run at the ticket booth - to the tune of $2 billion-plus worldwide - Avengers: Infinity War is gearing up for a similarly epoch-making home release, but unfortunately, it looks like it’ll be without Thanos’ backstory.
While we don’t know much about it, per se, apart from the fact it’ll see the web-head in England, could Spider-Man: Far From Home also feature the MCU debut of Captain Marvel?
T’Challa - whose solo feature, the aptly titled Black Panther, is perched atop the MCU domestic chart at nearly $700 million - and Rocket - who despite not being able to boast about his own standalone film, can at least find solace in the fact he survived Thanos and the snap of doom - never got the chance to share the screen in Avengers: Infinity War, before the king of Wakanda, was unfortunately dusted.
It’s essentially a foregone conclusion that Ant-Man and the Wasp will play a significant role in setting up Avengers 4. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed as much last week when he said not only will the Peyton Reed-directed sequel “connect directly” to the fourth supergroup installment but that the titular characters “are going to be very important going forward.”
Although Avengers: Infinity War didn’t need Ant-Man (Paul Rudd), nor the Wasp (Evangeline Lilly), for that matter, to smash through the elusive $2 billion barrier - a feat only ever achieved thrice before: Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($2.068B), Titanic ($2.187B) and Avatar ($2.788B) - Kevin Feige did recently confirm that not only will Ant-Man and the Wasp connect “directly to Avengers 4,” but the titular characters “are going to be very important” in the MCU “going forward.”
Earlier this month, leaked Avengers 4 concept art seemingly put an end to the Civil War. Although, the authenticity of the slip-up was called into question. Thankfully, though, additional seepage has oozed onto the interweb and not only corroborated the initial drip but elucidated several telltale signs that the fourth supergroup installment will indeed use time travel to reverse some, if not all, of the deaths that occurred during the cataclysmic finale of Avengers: Infinity War.
Does this concept art featuring Thanos wielding what looks to be a functioning, unused Infinity Gauntlet confirm Avengers 4 will feature time travel elements?
Following his departure from the DCEU, when it came to the purging of his now obsolete vision, Zack Snyder was a one-man wrecking crew. As of late, however, storyboard artist Jay Oliva – who’s been a veritable treasure trove of minutia – and Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice cinematographer Larry Fong, have been assisting with some of the heavy lifting. It would appear, however, that the man who initially held creative control over arguably the most promising shared cinematic universe at one point is ready for a return to the spotlight.
Having earned an astonishing $328 million at the worldwide ticket booth - on a production budget of just $17 million, mind you - and a breathtaking 95% certified fresh score on the Tomatometer, the success of Paramount Pictures’ A Quiet Place predictably culminated in the form of a sequel announced earlier this year.
