Tag: Blade

  • Disney Shuffles Marvel, Star Wars, Avatar Release Dates

    Disney Shuffles Marvel, Star Wars, Avatar Release Dates

    Disney is doing the release date shuffle again, this time with all their big properties. Marvel is the biggie, with Captain America: Brave New World being pushed back from May 3, 2024, to July 26, 2024; taking Brave New World’s place will be Deadpool 3, which is moving up from November 8, 2024. Thunderbolts, originally…

  • What Does Quantumania’s Box Office Drop Mean for Marvel?

    What Does Quantumania’s Box Office Drop Mean for Marvel?

    Ant-Man and the Wasp are being squashed like bugs. In its second weekend, Marvel’s latest superhero outing, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, dropped from its $106 million domestic opening to just under $32 million, according to The Numbers. This is a 70% drop, the worst in the MCU’s history. It’s also a bigger drop than…

  • Blade Gets a New Creative Team

    Blade Gets a New Creative Team

    The Daywalker has risen once again. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel has found a new creative team for Blade. Yann Demange will direct the film, replacing Bassam Tariq, who left the project in September, while Michael Starrbury will write the script. That’s right; a new script is needed, as the film is being overhauled,…

  • Blade Causes a Marvel Release Date Shuffle

    Blade Causes a Marvel Release Date Shuffle

    Marvel is reshuffling some of its release dates again. The Hollywood Reporter first exclusively revealed that Blade would be put on hold while Marvel searched for a director to replace Bassam Tariq, who’d left the film, with the pre-production shutting down and filming being delayed from next month. Later, THR published a follow-up revealing that…

  • Blade Loses Its Director

    Blade Loses Its Director

    The Daywalker will have to sleep a little longer. Jeff Sneider of The Ankler tweeted that Bassam Tariq, the director of Marvel’s upcoming Blade reboot, has left the film. Moments later, The Hollywood Reporter posted the story and claimed it was an exclusive – likely because Marvel and Tariq issued statements to them, whereas Sneider…

  • Mahershala Ali May Play Gordon in Matt Reeves’ Batman

    Mahershala Ali May Play Gordon in Matt Reeves’ Batman

    ComicBook.com reports via Collider’s Jeff Snieder that True Detective star Mahershala Ali was Matt Reeves’ first pick for the role of Commissioner Gordon in The Batman. However, in the wake of his casting as Blade, Snieder is unsure whether the Oscar-winning actor would play multiple comic book movie roles. I’ve been banging the drum for Idris…