Marvel has moved some of its movie yet again. It makes sense. As COVID seems to be here for the long run and box office numbers are not recovering, it makes sense that movie studios will do everything in their power to make sure that their movies will make maximum dollars at the box office. Eternals is too close to be pushed back, but everyone else are on the line.
So Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has moved from March 25, 2022 to May 6, 2022. This makes sense, big Marvel movies usually kick start the blockbuster season in May. March is just such a not thrilling month for such an incredible movie.
Thor: Love and Thunder moved from May 6, 2022, to July 8, 2022. Such strange experimental movies usually do better in the summer. And this is going to be a very strange movie, in a good way, not a summer opener.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever moved from July 8, 2022 to November 11th, 2022. Which is odd. It doesn't feel like a winter movie, but sometimes movies with a summer feel to them do very well during the winter. Plus, without Chadwick Boseman I feel that this movie has now again became an experimental movie.
The Marvels moved from November 11, 2022 to February 17th, 2023. Which is a really odd date. They should move it to February 13 and make it a Galentine's day movie. Movies can do really well in February with the right marketing. Just look at Deadpool.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania moved from February 17, 2023 to July 28th, 2023. It is definitely a July movie. It is going to be so weird. I just hope that the Loki show will still be fresh in people's mind after all this time.
So far there is no word on Spider-Man: No Way Home, but I think that it will move. It is a billion dollar movie and the box office isn't ready for a billion dollars movie. The highest grossing movie so far (I am not looking at movies coming from China and their possible fake numbers) is F9: The Fast Saga which made 721 million dollars at the box office. Which is a nice sum of money, but it's not the billion dollar club. I think that there is a good change that Spider-Man: No Way Home will take Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness release date and that all Marvel movies will move yet again.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is an excellent movie. The highest grossing movie of the year in the U.S., but that recoverd belongs to the 220 million dollars which it made. Which is nice, but it's not the usual Marvel numbers. Plus, it only made 417 million dollars worldwide. Light years away from the billion dollars club, and I don't think that Eternals will do much better with their current rotten tomatoes score (72 percent).
Box office numbers have a long way to go to recovery and until then, movies will have to adjust on the go.
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