![]() ![]() A certain amount of retooling is clearly in the offing, thanks to a series of reveals within “The Marvels” that attempt to set up the next chapter of the Marvel world, plus a released calendar already in flux, but we’ve got some ideas for big, fast, necessary fixes right now. It’s unfortunate that DaCosta’s film - directed by a woman of color, featuring a female-centric story with a “diverse” cast of superheroes, and finding its best beats in humor and heart - will become inextricably linked with the “fall” of the MCU, because this kind of box office bust has long seemed inevitable for the ailing franchise. ![]() ![]() Also not helping: a B CinemaScore, which places the film in the bottom tier of MCU films by that metric as well (only two other MCU films have received that same grade: “Eternals” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania”). It was a bad weekend at the box office - certainly not a “marvels-ous” one - as the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe, Nia DaCosta’s “The Marvels,” arrived in theaters and promptly walked away with a dismal $47 million domestic, $110 million worldwide opening (and a reported $220 million budget, before marketing costs), the worst opening for an MCU film ever. ![]()
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