Sadly, for actor Iman Vellani, one of the stars of Marvel Studios’ latest feature, “The Marvels,” the discussion surrounding the release of the film has revolved around the box office performance. The film opened to the lowest debut for a MCU film ever, and its second weekend has experienced the biggest drop for the studio. This is a shame because Vellani, along with her co-stars Teyonah Parris and Brie Larson, weren’t able to go out there and give the film proper promotion before the release, due to the SAG strike, so now, they have to answer questions that really aren’t focused on what is still a fun MCU romp. 

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There’s no other way to put it. It’s not a good day for Marvel Studios as their third film of 2023, “The Marvels,” opened to just $47 million at the U.S. box office—the lowest-grossing opening weekend of any Marvel movie ever (yes, even lower than 2008’s “The Incredible Hulk” and lower than all of the 2021 pandemic-affected films like the poorly-received “Eternals”).

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Filmmaker Nia DaCosta isn’t a stranger to stories about the power of vengefulness or forgiveness. Her directorial debut “Little Woods” sees its protagonist (Tessa Thompson) trying to create a life when local vengeance gets in the way, while “Candyman” sees artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) get ever closer to folklore’s Candyman, the vengeful spirit of a wrongly murdered man who can overtake your life if you whisper enough times into a mirror.

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There was a time—not that long ago, in fact—where a new Marvel Studios release fell into a bit of a routine. The film would get marketed all over the place, box office analysts would try to figure out which records it would break, and early reactions would praise the studio and the characters as invincible. Well, that time has come and gone, and now, box office projections are low, the SAG strike prevents the type of marketing we expect, and early reactions are, well, muted.

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Has it been a good year for movies at the box office or a terrible one? Depends on who you ask, and arguably, it would be a bad one if it were for “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” rescuing the year with great box office success. How has the usually-dependable Marvel fared at the box office? So far, one big underwhelming disappointment, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” which only grossed $476 million worldwide, the lowest-grossing Marvel movie since 2011’s “Thor” (not counting the pandemic releases of “Black Widow,” “Shang Chi” and “Eternals” which were all lower, but those were different circumstances).

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Are superhero films in trouble? It’s an argument that everyone’s been having in the last few years, and the pandemic hasn’t helped, given that it’s affected the bottom line of all moviegoing that’s in decline. DC doesn’t help the super narrative; they’re in freefall. And Marvel? Well, “Ant-Man Quantumania” grossly underperformed earlier this year, but “Guardians of The Galaxy Volume 3” made nearly $850 million worldwide and evened out the narrative.

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Marvel’s “Captain Marvel” made $1.13 billion back in 2019 before the pandemic. That’s a figure that Marvel is unlikely going to replicate these days, but they took a unique and interesting tact for the sequel. Instead of a straight-up “Captain Marvel 2” film, the comic book studio pivoted to an all-girls team-up film, teaming up Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) with Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani) from her own “Ms.

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The ongoing Marvel storytelling continues. And “The Marvels” is a super fascinating hybrid of Marvel’s efforts. Originally supposed to be a “Captain Marvel” sequel, a continuation of the Brie Larson-starring film with her as the super-powered hero Carol Danvers, the movie morphed into a kind of convergence sequel of three different stories: 1. “Captain Marvel,” 2. Monica Rambeau’s story from “WandaVision” and Kamala Khan’s narrative from the Disney+ show “Ms.

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Before its release, “Eternals” was poised to be a massive hit. You could argue that no new Marvel franchise has a better cast. The filmmaker, Chloé Zhao was coming off of Oscar wins. And the group of characters seemed like a new and interesting take on the classic superhero tropes. Sadly, the finished product didn’t light up the box office or score high reviews from fans and critics, leading to a lot of questions surrounding the future of the franchise.

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Essentially a YA show about a Pakistani teen, Kamala Khan, grappling with life in New Jersey under strict traditionalist parents who want her to be a good Muslim girl, Marvel’s “Ms. Marvel” is a charming and entertaining show merging coming-of-age tropes with coming-of-powers allegories.

Starring the exceptionally delightful Iman Vellani, a 19-year-old Pakistani-Canadian, perfectly cast, “Ms. Marvel” centers on a young girl grappling with newfound powers and entertaining the idea that she can become a superhero.

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Marvel‘s newest heroine is “Ms. Marvel” played by Pakistani-Canadian actress Iman Vellani, who went from high school student straight into becoming a key cog in Marvel Cinematic Universe. That’s a huge leap for anyone, but even more impressive given Vellani’s age. Her landmark superhero role of Kamala Khan sees her play a teenage high school student from New Jersey with new cosmic powers (a potential stand-in for womanhood/puberty) in a world populated by more seasoned superheroes.

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With “Moon Knight” all wrapped up last week, the next big Marvel Studios show on the horizon will be “Ms. Marvel” which comes from head writer Bisha K. Ali and is an adaptation of the 2014 comics by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona.

Many fans have noticed in promotional images and in footage that Iman Vellani’s MCU version of Kamala Khan doesn’t have her traditional stretchy abilities from the comics, instead replaced with some energy-based power, which many liken her to “Green Lantern,” an iconic DC Comics superhero that gets his energy-based abilities from a cosmic ring.

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Marvel Studios is really embracing the idea of Disney+. In a little more than a year, the studio has used the streaming platform to develop shows that dive a little deeper into the character stuff that we have come to know and love in the MCU. The studio also realizes it’s a great way to introduce new characters into the universe, such as in the show, “Ms. Marvel.”

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As seen in the new trailer for “Ms.

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Disney+ Day is upon us. Along with the streaming premieres of “Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings” and “Jungle Cruise,” and season two of “The World According To Jeff Goldblum,” the celebration also includes updates on many upcoming Marvel and Star Wars series.  

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Phase 4 is underway on the Marvel front, with three films and four TV shows already released.

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The follow-up to the hugely successful “Captain Marvel“ got a massive update today as well as “Candyman” director Nina DaCosta was confirmed by Kevin Feige along with the main cast of “Captain Marvel 2.”

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Joining Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers will be Iman Vellani, who plays Kamala Khan in Disney+’s upcoming series, “Ms.

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Marvel Studios brought their A-Game to the Disney Investor Day 2020 event as they seemingly were holding back a bunch of stuff we have to assume they wanted to show at San Diego Comic-Con 2020 before the convention was ultimately canceled due to the pandemic. However, this meant that Kevin Feige likely had a lot more on his hands to share with fans had they already done a Marvel panel over the summer.

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Newcomer and Canadian actress Iman Vellani has been cast as the teenage character Ms. Marvel for the upcoming Disney+ limited series of the same name. Relatively unknown, this will be Vellani’s first major Hollywood role, but as Deadline notes, she was at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival as part of the diversifying Next Wave Committee which was tasked with adding a special tag to films which they believed would resonate with their peers.

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