To say the past two years have been strange would be to underestimate it, as the COVID-19 pandemic has shaken all areas of daily life. Limiting our focus to the entertainment industry, among the biggest changes have been movie theaters that have been shutting down for an extended period starting in March 2020. While the pandemic isn’t over yet, theaters have been able to recover for over a year now, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe has played a huge role in this resurgence. Thanks to the release of Marvel movies like Spider-Man: There’s no way homeAnd the Doctor Strange in a multiverse of madness And the Thor: Love and Thunder. However, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige wants to make sure people don’t just attribute his company to people who are back in theaters again.
CinemaBlend’s Sean O’Connell spoke with Kevin Feige at San Diego Comic-Con after Marvel Studios’ Hall H panel, which premiered Black Panther: Wakanda Forever A trailer, which revealed the official Stage 5 roster and revealed some details about Stage 6, among other things. Shawn asked Feige how he felt “leading the reins” in getting people back to movie theaters after spending so long away, to which the CEO replied:
As I said on stage in Hall H today, there have been dark times over the past two years where I thought we’d probably never be able to get into a room of 7,000 again, and there were darker days where I thought we might ‘never be able to get in’ To a room with hundreds or thousands of people again. And the fact that we can come back, and not just for Spider-Man and Thor and [Doctor] Weird, but for Top Gun and Minions, all this success is great because there is no such thing as it. There’s nothing quite like Hall H here at Comic-Con, and it’s only once a year and only fits 7,000 people. But every day in cinemas around the world, you can get that experience with the right project and the right movie that brings people together.
While Black Widow It was available to show in both theaters and with a Disney+ subscription (specifically for people who paid for Premier Access) when it came out in July 2021. Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings The following September saw the MCU return to making theatrically exclusive films. Since then, Marvel has been a huge success at the box office, with Spider-Man: There’s no way home It became the highest-grossing movie of 2021 and shang chi Taking spot number 9. Looking at the year 2022, Doctor Strange in a multiverse of madness And the Thor: Love and Thunder respectively ranked #2 and #7 in the global box office hierarchy, and you can be sure Black Panther: Wakanda Forever You’ll draw a lot of people to theaters, too.
But as Kevin Feige has noted, viewers aren’t just interested in watching superheroes battle the forces of evil in the MCU. last year, No time to die And the F9 It was among the films that performed well on the big screen, and among the highest-grossing films of the year Jurassic World DominionAnd the Batman And the Minions: the rise of a puppy. And of course we can’t forget Top Gun: Maverick. The Tom Cruise-led sequel was not only met with critical acclaim from both professional reviewers and the general public, but dissident It is also the only movie so far this year to have crossed $1 billion. So while Kevin Feige is clearly pleased that people are eager to see upcoming Marvel movies in a theatrical setting, he’s even happier that this kind of community experience is generally back.
The MCU will return to entertaining people in theaters when Black Panther: Wakanda Forever It was released on November 11th. and before that , Disney + (Opens in a new tab) Subscribers must watch the movie premiere She-Hulk: Attorney at Law On August 17. You can now broadcast Doctor Strange in a multiverse of madness on the Mouse House broadcast platform.
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