The Last Dark Phoenix & Mike Re-Reviews Age of Ultron | Weekly News Episode 168

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Mike fulfills his promise - Age of Ultron Re-Review

News

• Avengers: Infinity War (13:35)
  • Dread it, run from it...it will still happen.
  • Film budget in the $300 million range, bringing marketing and full totals to nearly $500 million!
  • Odeon connected poster
  • Presale tickets/interest higher than previous two Star Wars movies
  • Future MCU directors have seen Avengers 4 to help with their upcoming films
  • TITAN CONSUMED novel to reveal MCU origins of Thanos
• Avengers 4 (22:30)
  • Emma Fuhrmann as a teenage version of Cassie Lang
    • Time travel? Alternate futures?
• Homecoming (23:50)
  • Sequel will be more global, outside of NYC
• LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 (27:10)
  • Infinity War character & level pack
    • Play as Thanos attacking Black Bolt and the Inhumans
• Stan Lee (28:00)
  • Filmed cameos for 3 more MCU movies
    • Ant-Man/The Wasp, Captain Marvel, and Avengers 4
• Black Widow (32:30)
  • Joe Russo (Avengers: IW) think the movie is coming
  • Characters “little girls can look up to”
• X-Men: Dark Phoenix (36:50)
  • Will be final Marvel movie from Fox (production)
  • All future projects moved to Disney
  • Phase 4 candidates: Deadpool, Fantastic Four, X-Men
  • Reshoots are having sets digitally recreated because they were scrapped when filming was done
    • Original story was film was 2 parts, this may wrap it up cleaner than a cliffhanger
• Deadpool 2 (45:20)
  • Final red band trailer
  • TICKETS ON SALE
  • “The more you put Deadpool in a box, the more he wants to push outside it.” - David Leitch regarding Fox/Disney merger
  • Trailer punchlines/jokes will not be in the final film
    • Multiple takes/improvisations used in trailers
  • 4 movie arc for Cable
• Superman (54:50)
  • 80th Anniversary of superhero’s debut
• Birds of Prey (55:45)
  • Multiple scripts being developed, Batgirl in all versions
• Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom (56:50)
  • Final Trailer
• East of West/Transhuman (1:01:25)
  • Amazon picking up series based on Jonathan Hickman’s series
• Doom (1:03:48)
  • New film based on new, successful reboot of game.
• Masters of the Universe (1:04:45)
  • Aaron and Adam Nee to direct picture
    • David Goyer is out
  • Release December 18, 2019
• MASK (1:05:30)
  • Mobile Armored Strike Kommand
  • F. Gary Gray (F8 of the Furious) to launch franchise for Hasbro
• xXx (1:07:25)
  • Fourth film to start production this Summer

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