Marvel Studios releases the first trailer for 'The Marvels' opening November 2023

Apr 11, 2023 in "Marvel Studios"

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Posted: Tuesday April 11, 2023 9:49am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

The first trailer for Marvel Studios' The Marvels debuted today on ABC's Good Morning America.

In the film, Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. But unintended consequences see Carol shouldering the burden of a destabilized universe. When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers become entangled with that of Jersey City super-fan Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, and Carol’s estranged niece, now S.A.B.E.R. astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau. Together, this unlikely trio must team up and learn to work in concert to save the universe as The Marvels.

The film stars Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Samuel L. Jackson, Zawe Ashton, and Park Seo-joon. Nia DaCosta directs, and Kevin Feige is the producer. Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Mary Livanos, and Matthew Jenkins serve as executive producers. The screenplay is by Megan McDonnell, DaCosta, Elissa Karasik, and Zeb Wells.

Marvel Studios’ The Marvels opens in U.S. theaters on Friday, November 10.

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TP2000Mar 18, 2024

So if the kids aren't into it, and the young men aren't into it, then who are they making these superhero movies for exactly?

WillmarkMar 18, 2024

So if they made the musical number bigger and better it would have been successful by that logic? Also no deriding needed, data seems to prove it out: https://www.statista.com/statistics/254115/favorite-movie-genres-in-the-us/

TalkingHeadMar 18, 2024

Example: RRR which had musical numbers, including a show stopper, and wasn’t derided as a turn off to men in the audience.

Hawkeye_2018Mar 18, 2024

Guardians 3 had a lower than expected opening I believe but positive word of mouth still made it a hit The fact that my kids are really not interested in the MCU at all anymore is telling.

WillmarkMar 18, 2024

It was. Previously the Incredible Hulk in 2008 had the lowest opening at 55 million, The Marvels opened with 46 million. Lifetime gross is likewise bad 134 vs 84 and I don’t think that accounts for inflation. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchise/fr541495045/ Now granted, technically it’s from Universal but it speaks to the point of low release if we actually go to a WDS MCU as next lowest? Eternals. I think some of this is the “fool me once” type of thing going on. It started back with TLJ in SW (by way of example) and people have been becoming progressively wary (IMO) with the output from the MCU and LF. Indy 5 and the Marvels are the latest examples.

LSLSMar 18, 2024

It may have done better, but wasn't it the worst opening for a MCU movie ever? The worry needs to be why are people not showing up initially a lot more than it needs to be why people don't show up in weeks 3 or 4.

Hawkeye_2018Mar 18, 2024

This is true. But I do believe if the movie was actually really good, the word of mouth would have gotten out and this would have done much better at the box office. But yeah, it had a terrible trailer staring an overpowered hero against a lame looking villain nobody has ever heard of before.

MisterPenguinMar 18, 2024

The problem with the dancing scene is that it wasn't extravagant enough. It was bare minimum singing and choreography and story-telling. I have the same critique of the Bollywood scene in Eternals. If you're going to have a song and dance with a large cast... go large, very large.

LSLSMar 18, 2024

Look, I'll fully state that scene was the worst part of the movie for me. And I sort of agree about the villain now that I've thought about it (I also didn't like Monica, though I did like other parts many here didn't). BUT, those are also things I did not know before going in either. The opening weekend tanked, which is what I'm really interested in. Had it started strong and faded away immediately because of those things, that would be one thing. But people saw the trailers and went "Nah, this isn't worth it at all." So when Iger states things like "Make better movies" what does that mean? Does that mean better trailers? Cause the movies are in trouble long before anyone has even seen the movies.

Tha RealestMar 18, 2024

Based on audience demographics, the men showed up

WillmarkMar 18, 2024

I’m just as surprised. There is no universe that Disney doesn’t know who is going to see super hero movies. It’s as if they simply don’t believe what the audience data is telling them or ignoring it; not sure which it is. The Marvels failure is indicative of a lot of things that just can’t be explained away with “super hero fatigue.” Add to this it appears the audience that did go was largely male just not enough. Part of me is curious as to how would the first movie done had it not been in front of Endgame? Any guesses?

Hawkeye_2018Mar 18, 2024

I can't believe nobody shut down that scene. They do understand the point of making these movies is for them to be well liked and make a bunch of money right?

Tha RealestMar 17, 2024

It makes sense when you consider they want to broaden the audience. Their success in this regard is obvious.

WillmarkMar 17, 2024

Can’t find at the moment, but saw a study where it showed the preferred genres of movies for men and women and for the most part it was what you would expect (nothing too glaringly obvious or out of place.) The one that was? Musicals. Musicals for men were the lowest by far and significantly skewed lower than for women. The plus/minus for each genre was within a similar range but musicals for men way lower. Now granted this movie was not a musical but with a musical number in the middle and something like 60-70% of all super hero movie goers being male? Seems like someone didn’t do some research into the audience and just another reason among many as why it struggled.