![]() The film, which was originally scheduled for a May 1 release, has been delayed a whole year due to the coronavirus outbreak. This means we might see X-Men fighting the Avengers or Fantastic Four villains invading upcoming Marvel movies.īlack Widow is finally getting a long-overdue solo movie, though fans will have to wait a little longer than expected to see it. Feige confirmed at Comic-Con that new Fantastic Four and X-Men movies are in the works. The franchise will likely be totally rebooted with new actors under the Disney umbrella. In 2019, Disney acquired Fox, effectively merging the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the X-Men Cinematic Universe. They have now struck up an agreement to continue making movies about Peter Parker together, even as Sony produces other movies in the Spider-verse alone, starring characters like Venom and Miles Morales. In 2017, Sony and Disney teamed up to make Spider-Man : Homecoming. ![]() Over 10 years, Disney built the most bankable film franchise in the world by building an interlocking universe of characters, teasing future movies with post-credit scenes and experimenting with different genres to shake up the superhero formula.ĭisney was so successful, that they are now able to buy back those fan favorite Marvel characters owned by other studios. Iron Man, Thor and Captain America became their moneymaking heroes. After Marvel Studios produced the surprise hit Iron Man, Disney swooped in to build an entire franchise out of characters long outshone by the X-Men and Spidey. Before Disney came along, Marvel Studios was struggling and had already sold off the rights to its most popular characters: They dealt Spider-Man to Sony and the X-Men and Fantastic Four to Fox. A little over a decade ago, Disney bought Marvel Studios. Those delays only add more uncertainty to the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which has grown in recent months because of studio mergers. ![]() ![]() Production was also halted on several of the projects that were filming when the pandemic began, including the film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and the Disney+ shows Loki, WandaVision and Falcon and the Winter Soldier, though WandaVision is now set to debut before end of 2020. Disney announced that it would delay Black Widow, originally set to premiere on May 1, until May 7, 2021. However, the release dates for many of these movies and shows will likely be delayed as movie theaters across the world close in response to the continuing global spread of COVID-19. ![]()
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![]() It’s normal to want to ditch the insular, backwards, judgy and sometimes dangerous environment of a small town. Hell, the second I graduated college, I packed a U-Haul and moved to Chicago with nothing but $535 in my pocket. Kids wanting to escape the small towns is not new. But then I come down here… and this fits too. Miuccia Prada never looked like a Spice Girl. Designers should be able to spot a look that isn’t going to be tired within 6 months. Melanie’s reverse flip bob in Sweet Home Alabama is bad, so indicative of Delia’s/Kate Gosselin hair trends from the early aughts, that it makes me incredulous that Melanie could really be in high fashion. Think Jane Fonda’s shag in Klute it’s timeless and still evokes the spirit of the 70s. In some movies, a character’s haircut can be so chic, that it transcends the era in which it was filmed. What could possibly go wrong?īarry’s cover? He’s a “journalist.” This movie had #fakenews before 45 “coined” the phrase some fifteen years later. Sure, send a Jewish kid down to a region with well-documented anti-semitism and “we don’t call 9-1-1” attitudes, to snoop around plantations looking for dirt on a blonde, white woman. Kate seems like a savvy lady she’s the mayor of New York City, after all. ![]() His name is…wait for it…Barry Lowenstein. We are supposed to hate him and his meddling ways. Melanie’s future mother-in-law, Kate, sends a staffer down below the Mason-Dixon to spy on Miss Melanie. And of course, Lurlynn is the one with “a baby…in a bar.” “Lurlynn” is the sound I make when I’m trying to talk while shoveling grits that are way too hot into my mouth at the Waffle House, after a long night of tossing back pinot grigio. He settled on Smooter, probably because no one would buy the name “Huckabee.” It rhymes.Ī dude from Nevada wrote the screenplay, and he needed a surname that Melanie would be embarrassed about. Get it? It’s like cooter! As in “Crazy Cooter is comin’ at cha!” #boduke4life. Melanie’s parents are Pearl and Earl. The heroine of Sweet Home Alabama is one Melanie Smooter of the Pigeon Creek Smooters. In Greenville, South Carolina, I grew up with a Stephanie, a Kenneth, a Tonya, a Todd, a Brad, tons of Jessicas and tons of other Amys. The movie poster reads, “Sometimes what your looking for is right where you left it.” We should have left this flick in 2002, the year Ben Affleck was People’s Sexiest Man Alive, the year Justin and Britney broke up, and the year Nickelback hit number one of the charts.īorn and raised in South Carolina, I never heard such hick names in all my life. Sorry y’all, but Sweet Home Alabama does not hold up. Cue the Skynyrd and “War of Northern Aggression” jokes cuz Melanie is headed back to the Heart of Dixie to get her a dee-vorce. Surprise…surprise…surprise! She does! Melanie is still married to a man named Jake back in her hometown of Pigeon Creek, Alabama. Unfortunately, Andrew’s mom, Kate, aka the mayor of New York City, thinks Melanie has some skeletons in her closet. ![]() Between the election and the college football playoffs-Go Clemson!-, why not let Alabama have another fraction of my brain space?īasic premise: Melanie Carmichael is the IT girl of New York fashion. In my mind, I’ve been going to Carolina Alabama a lot. So the other night, when Sweet Home Alabama was on E! The! Kardashian! Network!, I settled in with my needle and thread and remote control. I am up to my eyeballs in Christmas cross-stitch projects, and I half-watch mindless TV while I sew. “Forty years ago in Alabama, there’s a lotta mamas and daddies that would be thrilled that their 14-year-old was getting hit on by a district attorney.” Polling from Monday shows that Doug Jones has a 10 point lead (praise be!), but if you saw this Vice focus group, you will recognize that it’s dumb to bet against white evangelicals clinging to their delusions. Alabama being Alabama, the Senate race is very close, because in Alabama, moral turpitude is no longer disqualifying. Today is special election day in Alabama, where voters have the choice between Doug Jones, a kind, decent man who prosecuted the KKK, and Roy Moore, a bigoted, homophobic pedophile. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Doctor's worst enemies, The Daleks, The Cybermen, The Angels and The Silence, return, as the doctor's eleventh life comes to a close, and his twelfth life begins. With Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Orla Brady, James Buller. Featuring interviews with Smith himself as well as the cast, crew and fans of the show, the 45 minute special is a fun recap of Smith's time as the Doctor and of everything he brought to the show. The Time of the Doctor: Directed by Jamie Payne. There's plenty of time for reminiscing while we wait for Doctor Who to return this fall, and BBC America has helped to get the nostalgia ball rolling by making the series-end special 'A Farewell to Matt Smith' available to watch online. Nonetheless, the Doctor Who Christmas special episode, 'The Time of the Doctor,' left the TARDIS in the capable hands of Peter Capaldi, an excellent actor who has appeared on the show previously and also starred in BAFTA-winning political comedy series The Thick of It. ![]() Perhaps it would have been better if he hadn't, since it would have made saying goodbye a lot easier if the Eleventh Doctor (or thirteenth - it's a little complicated) hadn't been so likeable. Some were baffled by the casting choice, while others insisted that he was far too young to qualify for the part, but over the next few years Smith managed to win the hearts of many. The 2013 specials saw the end of Matt Smiths tenure as the Eleventh Doctor. Just over four years ago, Doctor Who fans waved a fond farewell to David Tennant's incarnation of the Doctor and were introduced for the first time to a virtually unknown actor called Matt Smith, who was set to take over the role. Like the 20th anniversary special, The Five Doctors, these specials are not. ![]() |
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