After a fantastic box office run as Marvel Studios’ first-ever R-rated movie, Deadpool & Wolverine isn’t saying “bye bye” just yet. Instead Marvel and Disney aim to position it as a big player in the upcoming awards season.While a bit funny, it doesn’t really come as a surprise, as Disney and Marvel have a tradition of pushing hard to sell their biggest blockbusters as cinematic achievements following Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther having a groundbreaking Oscars presence back in the day. It’s happened before and will happen again.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Via Variety, who had the exclusive, we’ve learned that Shawn Levy’s movie “will be submitted for consideration at the Golden Globes in the comedy categories, with Reynolds’ performa…
Read moreThings have just gone from bad to worse for Joker: Folie a Deux, as Warner Bros. has apparently already lined up its digital release.When the first Joker came out way back in 2019, it surprised pretty much everyone by making a whole billion dollars and change at the box office. What was not a surprise was Warner Bros. deciding to greenlight a sequel, a sequel, I might add, that had a budget of $200 million to produce and $100 million to market and distribute. And how did it do in its opening weekend? So badly it made even less than Morbius, of all films. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings The film just had its second weekend, which saw it take home $7 million domestically, a massive 81% drop from its first weekend, the worst second-weekend decline fo…
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