Venom Tendrils and MoviePass Sucks | Weekly News Episode 169

Superhero Slate is sad because Marvel is skipping San Diego Comic Con this year, we are Venom, MoviePass’ golden days are over, and more!

Superhero Slate is sad because Marvel is skipping San Diego Comic Con this year, we are Venom, MoviePass’ golden days are over, and more!

Shoutout to Superfan Alan

News

Avengers: Infinity War (8:50)

Review Episode now live

Spoiler Free Review

Box Office Update

$250 million opening (highest ever)
$630 million Intl (biggest ever, by almost $100 mill)

No Russia or China yet

MoviePass (16:25)

Has stopped multiple viewings of films on all plans

Including Infinity War

Backpedaling - Ticket per day offering may not return per CEO
Helios recorded $150.8 million loss in 2017, from MoviePass mostly

Marvel Studios (21:20)

No Marvel Studios at SDCC this year
Kevin Feige reveals his favorite post credits scene

Nick Fury, because of first
Shawarma because it happened

“Avengers 4 title commotion has gotten out of hand”
Horror genre might be next for MCU
Namor does not have clear cut rights with Universal on film (like Hulk)

Captain Marvel (28:00)

Young Nick Fury w/motion capture dots

Black Widow (30:44)

Looking For female director for film
Marvel Studios has met with Deniz Erguven (Mustang), Chloe Zhao (The Rider), and Amma Asante (The United Kingdom) among others

Spider-Man Homecoming (32:45)

Feige says casting videos are out of context

Does not confirm Femme Fatale lead for sequel

Global film with a villain that will ‘play into that nicely’

Sony Pictures (37:00)

Jumanji & Spider-Man push studio to $376 million profit

2016 had a $719 million loss

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse (38:40)

Villains are Ultimate Green Goblin, the Kingpin, and the Prowler
Peter Parker died at age 26 in the universe

Venom (41:45)

First Official Trailer released
Suit reveal & venom voice

Morbius (47:30)

Antoine Fuqua (Magnificent 7) approached by studio to helm film
Passed in 2017, movie future uncertain

Deadpool 2 (49:43)

Julian Dennison as Hot Stuff via new promo

X-Force (40:30)

Has entered Pre-production

"a Black Ops force of down and dirty mutant warriors who are far more ruthless than their X-Men counterparts"

Domino (Zazie Beetz) and Cable to return in film
Release possible 2019

Dark Phoenix (53:15)

Cinemacon shows new logo without X-Men in title
Circle X in Phoenix

DC Films (54:50)

Aquaman got footage screened
Shazam had BTS footage
Wonder Woman 2 is set in the 80’s

Dumbo (56:15)

First look at titular character elephant

Stranger Things (57:30)

Season 3 kicked off production this week
Premiere sometime in 2019

Netflix (58:5)

New research shows most popular programming is Sci-Fi

Stranger Things, Altered Carbon, Mute, Cloverfield Paradox, Annihilation, Lost in Space

Star Wars Resistance (1:01:10)

New Animated series coming this fall
Focus on era before The Force Awakens and after Return of the Jedi
Disney Channel

Watchmen (1:02:30)

HBO series not a direct adaptation of the comic series
Leaked descriptions don’t have any recognizable characters

Could be to throw off reports

John Wick 3 (1:03:33)

Halle Berry wanted as new female lead, Sofia

Has small child in film

Star Trek (1:04:05)

S.J. Clarkson (Jessica Jones, The Defenders) to direct fourth film in franchise
Tarantino’s script still developed, this is a follow up to Beyond first

Glass (1:05:30)

First promo poster for upcoming film

Sonic the Hedgehog (1:07:50)

Paramount films shows logo
November 15, 2019

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